I've been skeptical about a lot of AI-first gadgets over the last couple of years – the Rabbit R1 and the Humane Pin come to mind – mostly because they promise too much and either underdeliver or fail spectacularly. There's a lot AI can do well, and maybe at this point what we need are more singularly focused products... Like this tiny device aimed at helping kids explore their creativity.

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Printer, Consumer Electronics, Gadgets, Kids, Children

It may surprise some to learn that Polaris has a serious research, development, and testing facility. One that rivals the kinds of equipment and know-how found at many full-scale automotive manufacturers. I got a full tour of the place, along with a dedicated test track that I got to use later.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Polaris, Three-Wheeler, Features

Ever since Stefano Boeri Architetti's Bosco Verticale was completed in 2014, putting greenery on skyscrapers has been in vogue – and honestly, as far as architectural trends go, it's one of the better ones. MVRDV's latest project leans into the idea with a lush plant-filled residential tower.

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Category: Architecture, Technology

Tags: Building and Construction, MVRDV, Residential towers, sustainable design, Taiwan

On a remote coral reef near Papua New Guinea, endless streams of bubbles rise from cracks in the seabed into the shallow water, fed by an underground volcanic system. For scientists, this natural phenomenon has become a kind of crystal ball, revealing how our changing oceans will shape the marine life within them.

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Category: Biology, Science

Tags: Australian Institute of Marine Science, Coral, Climate Crisis, Ocean acidification, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Removal, Biodiversity, Marine Biology

Taiwan's Tern Bicycles has listened to its customers and delivered a belt-drive Vektron folding ebike as part of the fourth-generation rollout in the US, which also includes a regular chain-driven flavor that offers a sportier ride.

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Category: Bicycles, Transport

Tags: ebikes, Tern, Folding, Foldable bike, Bosch, Pedal-assisted, cargo bike

The Loyal Wingman concept has taken a major step toward reality as Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works pulled off an aerial demonstration where a 5th-generation F-22 Raptor interceptor took command of a drone for the first time.

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Category: Military, Technology

Tags: Lockheed Martin, Skunk Works, F-22 raptor, drones

You probably know that simply tossing dead batteries in the trash is no bueno – they release toxic heavy metals as they break down over time in landfills, contaminating the soil and nearby water supplies. Thankfully, we now have e-waste recycling facilities around the world that can prevent these from polluting the environment – but surely we can also make safer batteries that decompose naturally, no?

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Category: Energy, Technology

Tags: Battery, McGill University, Environmentally-friendly, Wearable, Internet of Things

For all the innovation in helmets, most of it has gone towards making the things "smart." Think AI, AR, integrated cameras, intercom systems, and whatnot. But the traditional helmet design has remained unchanged for the most part. A company called Roof plans to change that.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Helmets, Modular, Helmet, Road Safety, Smart Helmet, EICMA 2025

The Wagoneer S marks a bold leap for Jeep as the brand’s first full-electric model for US buyers. Jeep doesn’t seem shy about it. Its greatest downsides are not electric, but are problems it shares with Wagoneer models on the whole.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Jeep, SUV, Electric Vehicles, Reviews

Japanese engineering outfit Aspark has been working on its oddly mesmerizing Owl hypercar since 2014, and was once the fastest electric production car you could buy. It beat out the legendary Rimac Nevera last June with its blistering top speed of 272.7 mph (438.73 km/h).

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Hypercar, Japan, Electric Vehicles

In a proposal that reads more like the script to a new sci-fi movie, researchers are suggesting a unique way to tackle one of the core problems of quantum computing. If deployed, it would redefine how we think of "cloud computing."

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Category: Quantum Computing, Science

Tags: Airships, Blimp, Quantum, KAUST, Stratospheric

One of my favorite IKEA products is a plastic foldable phone stand that weighs next to nothing and lives on your keychain. It's a practical little thing for passing the time if you're out and about a lot – but hardware brand MeToolDesign has taken that concept and leveled it up to create a much more useful piece of EDC gear.

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Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors

Tags: EDC, Titanium, Kickstarter

We'd like to welcome this curious armless burrowing lizard into the New Species Hall of Fame. Despite being built for life underground, in the end this slider skink was no match for scientists who had searched for a decade to confirm its existence.

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Category: Biology, Science

Tags: Australian National University, Species, Reptile, Discovered, Australia

Following a report at the start of this year, more details have been revealed on what is arguably the world's most ambitious architecture project: the mind-bogglingly tall JEC Tower, which is currently rising in Saudi Arabia.

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Category: Architecture, Technology

Tags: Building and Construction, Skyscrapers, Saudi Arabia, World's Tallest

You may be sitting on – so to speak – a very valuable asset that scientists would love to get their hands on: your poop. As well as blood, plasma and organs, you can now donate fecal samples to stool banks for research and use in transplants.

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Category: Biology, Science

Tags: University of New South Wales, fecal transplant, Organ donation, Banking, Microbiome, Gut Bacteria, Gut health

Peak wildfire season may be over in California, but home-threatening fires remain a year-round threat in many areas, and this innovative three-part kit offers homeowners some new and easy ways to give houses a fighting chance.

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Category: Around The Home, Lifestyle

Tags: Fire, Fire-Proof Coatings, Firefighting, Wildfires, DIY

On the northern edge of Ukraine, inside the 30-km (19-mile) exclusion zone surrounding the abandoned Chornobyl (commonly known as Chernobyl) nuclear plant, thousands of animals now roam freely through forests, abandoned towns and decaying industrial estates. Among them are the stray dogs – around 900 descendants of the pets left behind, now living in a landscape shaped by the world’s worst nuclear disaster.

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Category: Biology, Science

Tags: Nuclear, Wildlife, Dogs, Radiation, Disasters, University of South Carolina, Conservation

I’ve been an enthusiast cook for 40 years, and I have gathered some nice knives and cookware. But I’ve never much cared what stove I was using – beyond a general preference for gas or induction.

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Category: Around The Home, Lifestyle

Tags: Cooking, Kitchen, Appliances, Induction

It’s been a productive year for Carlo Ratti Associati, an Italian architectural firm known for blending man-made construction with natural environments. The company recently unveiled a sophisticated mountain shelter that will soon find its permanent location in the Italian Alps. Now, CRA has collaborated with American creative studio Höweler + Yoon and Italian steel construction company Cimolai on a new experiment. The result of their five-month effort is a 400-square-meter (4,306-sq-ft) floating plaza – AquaPraça.

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Category: Architecture, Technology

Tags: Carlo Ratti Associati, Floating, Climate Crisis, Brazil

Earth's earliest life left behind very few chemical traces. Fragile remains, like ancient cells and microbial mats, were buried, squeezed, heated, and broken apart by the planet's shifting crust before reappearing at the surface. These drastic changes erased most traces of how life began and evolved.

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Category: Biology, Science

Tags: Fossils, Photosynthesis, Evolution, History