Joby Aviation's latest iteration of its autonomous all-electric S4 air taxi VTOL aircraft has made its maiden flight. The new variant aimed at the defense market boasts a turbine-electric hybrid powertrain for greater range and endurance.
Category: Military, Technology
Tags: Joby Aviation, Air Taxis, Flight Tests, Aircraft, Autonomous
What Toyota has done with the 2025 4Runner is evolutionary and well-considered. The new 4Runner sits on the TNGA-F body-on-frame architecture (shared with the Tacoma and Tundra), and that underpins much of what’s compelling (and contentious) about this generation. I drove both the Limited and the Trailhunter models to get to the bottom of it.
Category: Automotive, Transport
In a Phase 3 trial of more than 18,000 volunteers across three countries, an mRNA influenza vaccine from Pfizer has outperformed standard seasonal flu shots by 34.5%. It's yet another sign that this biotechnology is here to stay.
Category: Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: Baylor College of Medicine, Pfizer, mRNA vaccines, clinical trials, Influenza, Vaccines
Five is a very unusual number of cylinders for a motorcycle engine, and the most familiar examples graced track-only prototypes that brought world championships in two eras to Honda. If storied Italian brand MV Agusta wanted to focus public attention firmly on hopes for the future, announcing that a five-pot engine would propel a fresh range of bikes would be a neat way to do it.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Allow me to preface the title: Longshot Space wants to build a 6-mile-long (10-km) space cannon to shoot several-ton objects into low Earth orbit (LEO). The company has already built a working proof of concept.
Tags: SpinLaunch, Longshot, Kinetic orbital launchers, Orbit, Android Launchers, Compressed Air, Cannons, Interviews
Jeep is going all out to court thrillseekers with the 2026 Recon SUV. This chunky all-electric 4x4 packs a raft of features for making light work of craggy trails, along with plenty of power under the hood, and creature comforts to boot.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Jeep, Electric Vehicles, SUV, stellantis
MIT researchers have found a way to use the mechanical vibrations of sound waves to shake water molecules free from a storage medium. The breakthrough significantly speeds up the process of harvesting drinking water from thin air.
Category: Technology
Tags: Water, Atmosphere, Environment, MIT
When Verge debuted with its first hubless electric motorcycle in 2022, it created a new visual aesthetic for motorcycles. Now, almost 4 years later, the Finnish-Estonian company is still going strong, upgrading its best-selling electric motorcycle with a bunch of appreciable upgrades.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Hubless, Electric Motorcycles, EICMA 2025, Electric Vehicles, livewire, Zero Motorcycles
DJI's upping the ante for image quality out of its action cams with the new Osmo Action 6. It's the first of its kind to get a variable aperture, and it's got a larger sensor that should make for better photos and videos than its predecessor.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: DJI Innovations, Actioncam, Video
A team of biologists in Australia has developed a scanning device to accurately detect exactly how potent a cannabis plant is, well before it's harvested. And no, it's not for selecting the choicest buds to get blasted with.
Category: Science
Tags: University of Adelaide, Cannabis, scanning, Handheld
It's a well-known fact that if you're trying to cool your mouth after eating spicy food, you should drink milk, not water. Bearing that fact in mind, scientists have developed an "artificial tongue" that measures food spiciness using a milk protein.
Category: Science
Tags: American Chemical Society, Tongue, Taste, Sensors, Milk, Food technology
Regardless of how you feel about electric two-wheelers, you can’t argue about one thing: the innovation at hand. From hubless wheels to 3D-printed tech, or scooter-motorcycle crossovers to a moped with most of its body invisible, the tech has been at the forefront of e-development.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Yamaha, Electric Vehicles, Electric Motorcycles, Dirt Bikes, Endurance Racing, Racing, stark, KTM
Photographing the deep sky at night can be a complicated business involving specialist knowledge, expensive and bulky equipment and a good deal of patience. DwarfLab's book-sized smart telescopes have removed many pain points over the years, but the company has gone lightweight as well as compact and portable for its latest design.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Telescope, Astronomy, Astrophotography, Amateur astronomy
I love when automakers let their designers go hog wild on concept vehicles, and Hyundai's Irvine, California-based team absolutely cooked with the Crater. It's a compact electric SUV with futuristic styling that looks like the sort of vehicle you'd deploy on a recon mission after touching down on a new planet.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Concept Cars, SUV, Electric Vehicles, Hyundai
If you've struggled to get a ratchet to work in a tight space, you'll appreciate a new take on the tool from Titaner. The palm-sized tool engages each sprocket with just a tiny turn and has multiple configurations for maximum situational adaptability.
Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors
Tags: EDC, Everyday Carry, Titanium, Tools, Kickstarter
US brain-computer-interface startup Paradromics is quickly establishing itself as a major player in the neural-device space, with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) green-lighting a human trial to test its ability in restoring speech in people with paralysis.
Category: Medical Devices, Medical Innovations, Body and Mind
Tags: Brain-computer interface, Neuralink, Neuroscience, Speech, neurons, Implant, Brain Machine Interface, UMC Utrecht
Scientists have found the clearest evidence yet that Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) – which nearly all of us carry for life – is directly responsible for hijacking our immune system's cells to cause lupus, a chronic disease that affects up to a million Americans.
Category: Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: Stanford University, Epstein-Barr Virus, lupus, Virus, Inflammatory, Inflammation, Cells, The Immune System
Star Catcher Industries has set a new record for beaming power at a distance. Its Star Catcher Network technology beamed 1.1 kW of power at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida using off-the-shelf solar panel components.
Category: Energy, Technology
Tags: DARPA, Solar Power, Power
Blending ancient land-shaping traditions with cutting-edge fabrication, a new project called TreeSoil is reimagining how architecture can support vulnerable environments. Conceived through a partnership between two research groups, the Technion Institute’s Material Topology Research Lab (MTRL) and the Tree Lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, the project proposes a small but radical idea: build structures not for people, but to protect saplings struggling to survive in degraded landscapes.
Category: Environment, Science
Tags: Eco-Friendly, Agricultural, sustainable design, 3D Printing, Tree, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Weizmann Institute of Science
Narwal's flagship self-cleaning wet/dry robot vacuum is on sale for Black Friday. We've spent several months with the Narwal Flow, and while it doesn't offer any spectacular party tricks, it's the smartest, best-performing robovac we've seen.
Category: Around The Home, Lifestyle
Tags: Robot, Smart Home, Vacuum, Vacuum cleaner, Reviews, Black Friday
