Forget strips, gels, and pastes. Your next tooth-whitening and repairing substance might well be a new powder developed by Shanghai researchers. You'll want to use it with an electric toothbrush though, because that's what makes it spark.
Category: Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: Dental, Teeth, Piezoelectric
Firefighters could soon have a formidable ally in their daunting task of entering buildings set ablaze: specialized drones that can handle the heat from live flames and relay visuals to help them assess the situation.
Category: Drones, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Fire, Firefighting, Empa, Quadcopter
Having spent most of my early shirt-pressing days using an iron before graduating to an automatic clamshell-style heat press, the HTVRONT Auto Heat Press 2 really does make life easier. While I haven't used the original HTVRONT Auto Heat Press, the Auto 2 has several more features, like adjustable pressure, a wider heat range, and a few small design changes. That calculates out to roughly 50% more, right?
Category: Around The Home, Lifestyle
If you want a really good workout, you shouldn't just be sitting around. That's at least part of the thinking behind the Martoni Cardio Speeder, a seatless exercise bike that puts the user in what its creator calls a "procumbent" riding position.
Category: Fitness & Exercise, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: Exercise Bikes, Kickstarter, Fitness
It’s no secret that a big chunk of electric motorcycles finds its audience in younger folks. Just look around you – who do you find atop those e-motos in your neighborhood? It’s more likely to be a Gen Z than a Baby Boomer. So it makes sense when new EV companies target that very audience with their electric motos.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Electric Vehicles, Electric Motorcycles, Off-road, Adventure Bikes, urban transport, Zero Motorcycles
I’m a simple man. I like most things motorized to be simple … and uncomplicated. If it’s an adventure bike, it should be good at exactly that – taking a beating on adventures. If it’s a truck, it should be excellent at hauling things around with minimal effort. And if it’s a sports car, it better be fast before it tries to be anything else.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Electric Vehicles, Xiaomi, China, Europe, Mazda, Roadster, 911
Whether you call it a velomobile or a quadcycle, the Frikar was certainly one of the most compelling pedal-electric vehicles to come our way in the past several years. And although its maker went bankrupt last year, the bike is now set to ride again – as the TwoZero Classic.
Category: Urban Transport, Transport
Tags: Velomobile, Quadricycle, Pedal-assisted, Kickstarter
Until just a couple of years ago, the rugged phone category was almost exclusively about military-grade durability and water resistance for use in the field. Nowadays, you can expect giant batteries and super-bright flashlights on board too, making these devices more versatile and useful on daring expeditions.
Category: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Phone, Smartphone Projectors, Projector, Rugged, smartphones
The Evergreen is a non-towable tiny house that would suit small living enthusiasts who want to put down some roots and enjoy more space and flexibility. By giving up its wheels, the home gains a roomy, light-filled layout that can comfortably sleep a small family.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Micro-House, Tiny Footprint, House, Home
One would think that a US$99,000 telescope requires specialist training and a thick instruction manual. But the new Hyperia from French company Vaonis flips that assumption on its head. It's powerful enough for professional observatories yet runs entirely from a simple smartphone app.
Category: Technology
Tags: Telescope, Canon, ces-2026, Astrophotography
Think mini motos, and you’d undoubtedly think about the Honda’s mini line-up: the Cub, the Monkey, the Trail, and the Grom. But what if these bikes could get even “mini-er”? Say hello to Bluroc X-Bongo 50.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: MINI, Small-displacement, Honda Motorcycles, Scramblers
The software and hardware that will control tomorrow's combat drones got a workout on January 18, as a General Atomics MQ-20 Avenger showed off its capability by autonomously intercepting a crewed aggressor aircraft in an air combat exercise.
Category: Military, Technology
Tags: Combat, drones, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Anduril, US Air Force
A new CRISPR-based one-off procedure that lowers "bad" cholesterol has been approved to enter Phase I human trial. If successful, it could be the first approved genetic-silencing method on the market, replacing the need for long-term medication and slashing the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Category: Heart Disease, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: Biotechnology, CRISPR, clinical trials, gene therapy, Genetic engineering, Genome
We're coming up on the 100th anniversary of the electric guitar, and it's been fascinating to hear how this simple instrument has altered the landscape of music in that time. It's mostly just wire, wood, and a wee bit of electronics that doesn't even need power.
Category: Music, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Guitar, Guitar Effects, Modular
The Nissan Interstar van is not a pretty machine. Some might call it a searing eyesore. So to outfit an Interstar camper van into a place one could proudly call home, maybe even for a full-time van life stint, is quite a feat. Nissan conversion partner Eiffeland gets it done, carving out a rustic-modern roaming lodge with high bed, flexible lounge and warm, well-appointed ambiance that will make you forget you're living in one of the world's more aesthetically challenged vehicles.
Category: Campervans, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: Campervan, electric-camper, Nissan, cmt-2026, RV, Camping, Outdoors and Camping
The second I picked up the CNVPros, I immediately thought to myself, "Are they heavy? Yeah? That means they're expensive, put 'em back." The nighttime 'nocs have a bit of heft to them, and they feel like they should cost way more than they do.
Category: Electronics, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Night Vision, Tactical, Hunting, Night-time, Camera, Reviews
This might just be the most overengineered desktop gear I've ever come across. The Naya Connect system features four devices built around a modular keyboard to upgrade your setup with all kinds of shortcuts and tactile inputs.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Gadgets, Keyboard, Modular, Kickstarter
For the first time, we know more than we ever expected to know about the sex lives of the majestic beluga whale. It's complicated, to say the least, but it also shows just how strategic nature is at keeping an isolated group of animals alive.
Tags: Florida Atlantic University, Whale, Marine Biology, Animal science, Evolution, Reproduction, Conservation
Turns out jellyfish and sea anemones – among the ancient creatures with a nervous system instead of a brain – have a very similar sleeping routine to our own. A new study published in Nature Communications reveals that these animals not only sleep but do so for the same portion of their day as humans, spending about one-third of the day sleeping. The findings also suggest that sleep evolved long before the brain to help maintain cells under stress.
One of the buzziest highlights of this year's CMT camper and travel show, the new Freescape camper van combines a flexible floor plan like nothing we recall seeing before with a unique patented pop-up roof system we definitely haven't seen before. The all-wheel-drive Ford Adventure camper van is as ready to live off-grid as it is to run errands on it.
Category: Campervans, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: Campervan, mini-campervan, cmt-2026, RV, Inflatable, Off-grid, Modular, Camping, Outdoors and Camping
