As any snowboarder knows, the board does not just float dreamily across soft, puffy snow. It bangs and it shakes and it chatters against the hard-packed slopes, which is exactly where the shock-absorbing ShredLORD is designed to come in.
Category: Outdoors
Tags: Snowboarding, Kickstarter, Suspension
Who doesn’t love beautifully hued clothing? Well, how about Mother Nature? But can you blame her? Industrial dyes are absolute poison.
Category: Environment, Science
All tiny houses require compromises – it's unavoidable when your home is small enough to tow. However, the Thicket has fewer drawbacks than you'd expect given its relatively compact size, and it looks like it could be a good fit for first-time downsizers.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home, Building and Construction
In a major breakthrough in human tissue replication, for the first time ever a 3D-printed cornea has been transplanted onto a legally blind patient's eye, successfully restoring their sight.
Category: Body and Mind
Tags: Eye surgery, Sight, Vision, 3D Printing, Transplant
Japanese company Science is commercially producing its Mirai Ningen Sentakuki – Human Washing Machine of the Future – after an overwhelming response at the Osaka-Kansai Expo this year. Only 50 models will be made, with a price tag of US$385,000.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Japan Display, Future, Day Spas, Expo, Well-being, Life Technologies, Artificial Intelligence
With all the technology in our lives today, it can feel overwhelming trying to keep track of the apps we need to control the world around us. Chinese tech company UltraBar has spent the past few years searching for a way to reduce this digital clutter, and it's come up with an interesting solution – a modular system of smart blocks that lets you control everything at once.
Category: Electronics, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Kickstarter, Smart Home, Programming
They’re gorgeous, dazzling, passionately pursued, and worth billions.
Category: Science
Tags: UC Berkeley, Virus, Metals
This recently completed tiny house, by Vagabond Haven, packs a lot of comfort into a compact footprint. Designed to sleep two people, it's fully equipped for off-grid living and is envisioned as a vacation home or rental.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, House, Home, Micro-House, Off-grid
Thermal imaging has become wildly accessible, thanks to technological advancements that have made it more affordable than ever. Thermal Master's Thor 002 sits squarely in that sweet spot. And it's about a third of the price of its main competitors.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Thermal Imaging, Cameras, Diagnostic devices, Diagnostic tools, Reviews
The World Health Organization (WHO) has finally made its recommendations on using glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) therapeutics for weight loss, though it remains to be seen whether it changes their status for prescribing or their price.
Category: Obesity, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: World Health Organization, Obesity, GLP-1 receptor agonists, Semaglutide, Weight Loss, Metabolic syndrome, Heart Disease
Scientists have discovered that avian influenza viruses have a gene that makes them incredibly resistant to heat, rendering our body's natural defense system – fever – powerless in fighting infection. In fact, higher temperatures actually help the viruses replicate.
Category: Infectious Diseases, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: University of Cambridge, University of Glasgow, avian-influenza, Influenza, Birds, Virus, pandemic, The Immune System, Infections
Russia has suffered a major setback after the launch of its Soyuz MS-28 mission ferrying astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) caused severe damage to the country's only pad capable of handling crewed boosters.
Tags: Roscosmos, NASA, Soyuz, International Space Station
So many rooftop tents on the market weigh well over 100 lb (45 kg), with the heaviest pushing 300 lb (135 kg). The all-new Weekend from Danish camping goods company Groenberg shatters that mold and weighs in at a fraction of those figures. And for a limited time, it also prices in at a fraction of the competition, running closer to traditional ground tent pricing. Could this be the attainable, easy-to-use rooftop tent the market has been begging for?
Category: Tents, Gear, Outdoors
Tags: roof-top tent, Tent, Inflatable, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, Lightweight, Kickstarter
Air taxis might be the next big thing but they can't get very big if there's no place for them to land. AutoFlight Aviation Technology is developing a vertiport that's essentially a solar-powered barge that can go where it's needed – water permitting.
Tags: eVTOL, Autoflight, Air Taxis, Aviation
Perovskites may sound like perogies or piroshkis, but no high-carb-cheese-and-potato-flavor-pocket can do what they do. They’re minerals that can do the same party trick as many of your favorite childhood toys and models (such as the classic AMT Interplanetary UFO Mystery Ship; oh, how I miss you) and teenage trinkets such as glowsticks and “neon” rave necklaces: that is, they absorb and emit light.
Category: Energy, Technology
Tags: Laser, Perovskite, University of Cambridge, Solar Cell
Britain's DragonFire laser weapon upped the ante on November 20 at the Ministry of Defence's Hebrides Range in Scotland when the high-powered, solid-state laser for the Royal Navy shot down drones flying at 351 knots (404 mph, 650 km/h).
Category: Military, Technology
Tags: Royal Navy, Laser weapon
The tiny house movement has never just been about, well, houses, and it has produced all kinds of weird and wonderful structures on wheels – everything from a pub to a wedding chapel, an office and more. This example provides a hot and steamy take on small living with a sauna that seats up to six people.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Sauna, Off-grid
In the first US study looking at whether the recommended fluoride levels in drinking water affects brain function, researchers have found that the hot-button mineral has no negative impacts on cognition – and may actually be giving it a boost.
Category: Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: University of Minnesota, Teeth, Children, Teenagers, Cognitive functioning, Vitamins and minerals
While lithium extraction technologies generally focus on ways to get the essential metal out of the ground, there's another source to mine: existing batteries that no longer work. A new technique could now make that process economically viable.
Category: Energy, Technology
Tags: Lithium-ion, Lithium metal, Battery, Rechargeable Batteries, Recycling, University of Illinois
After a rather slow year in multitools that saw us bring knives into the mix in 2024, 2025 saw more multitool debuts than we could keep up with. Many of them were rather underwhelming – limited utility, weird forms, copycats and other subpar debuts – but a few stood tall above the pack.
Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors
Tags: Multitools, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, Leatherman, Swiss Army, Gerber, Tools, Knife, Backpacking
