The 2026 Volvo EX30 is a small electric SUV with a big personality, to cover for a cabin designed by people who apparently looked at gauges and buttons and decided these are unnecessary extravagances.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Volvo, SUV, Battery+Electric+Vehicle, Electric, Reviews
We've featured loads of cool knives for the everyday carry community on here, but I haven't ever seen anything quite like this. It's a modular number that you can customize to handle whatever the day's going to throw at you.
Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors
Tags: EDC, Knife, Outdoors and Camping, Camping, Titanium, Tools, xxKickbooster, Kickstarter
Few things are more annoying than an adhesive that refuses to stick. A strong contender, though, is one that refuses to let go when you no longer need it.
Category: Materials, Engineering
Tags: Virginia Tech, Adhesive, Recyclable
Suzhou, a historic city on the plains of eastern China, has just opened up the country's latest art exhibition space – and it's a spectacle for creatives, tourists, and architecture enthusiasts alike.
Category: Architecture, Engineering
Tags: Museum, China, BIG, Bjarke Ingels Group
Joby Aviation has scored a world first, completing the first-ever fully autonomous flight from sea to shining sea across the continental United States – a distance of 3,199 miles (5,148 km) – with zero control inputs from an onboard human pilot.
Tags: Joby Aviation, Autonomous flight
As far as our genetic library goes, the Y chromosome seems like a mere pamphlet. Just ask any cell with a pair of X chromosomes if it feels overly bothered by that trivial loss of DNA.
Category: Cancer, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: Oesophageal cancer, Tumors, Y-chromosome, Genetics, Diagnosis
They say a drowning man is willing to grasp onto just about anything to stay afloat, but he would most likely think twice if you offered a titanium buoy. Yet, scientists have created a titanium structure that floats without compromising the metal’s strength.
Category: Materials, Engineering
Tags: RMIT University, Titanium, Floating
Toward the end of each summer, the annual Düsseldorf Caravan Salon showcases the most diverse selection of camping vehicles you're likely to ever see gathered in one place – from beautiful classics to cutting-edge concepts and prototypes, and from tiny, featherlight trailers to massive tundra-roving 8-wheelers. It's never easy to pick out a favorite vehicle from that deep fleet, so we don't usually try. This year, however, the new Bimobil EX 270 popped out as not only one of the most visually arresting rigs in all 15 exhibition halls of the show but also the one in which we'd most like to disappear into a cloud of self-made dust – for a week, month or maybe indefinitely.
Category: RVs and Motorhomes, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: expedition vehicles, RV, Bimobil, Off-road, Off-grid, Toyota, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, dusseldorf-caravan-salon-2026
You probably know BYD as the Chinese auto giant dropping extreme performance cars and market-dominating affordable EVs. Did you know it also makes commercial vehicles that haul cargo in more than 100 countries?
Category: Transport
Tags: Truck, Cargo, Tesla Semi, BYD
We've learned a bit more about Lockheed Martin's Vectis Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) as the company unveiled a full-scale mock-up of the aircraft while announcing that production of the development prototypes is expanding to five airframes.
Category: Military, Engineering
Tags: Lockheed Martin, Skunk Works, drones
Shipping containers aren't just for moving stuff around, and architects love to use them for all kinds of interesting ideas. With their compact dimensions and ease of transport, the metal boxes are tailor made for tiny homes. Here are 10 of the best.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home, shipping containers
Norwegian chemical company Yara has inaugurated the largest industrial carbon capture facility in all of Europe this week. Set up at the company's ammonia and fertilizer plant in Sluiskil, the Netherlands, it can capture 800,000 tons of CO2 per year.
Category: Environment, Science
Tags: Carbon capture, Norway, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Climate Crisis
Northrop Grumman has successfully flight-tested a new quantum navigation system aboard its Lumberjack drone. By taking ultra-precise measurements of Earth's magnetic field, the system allows the aircraft to calculate its course and position without relying on satellite navigation.
Category: Military, Engineering
Tags: drones, Northrop Grumman, Quantum Mechanics
Before humanoid robots fully integrate into our societies and inhabit our homes, factory floors, and workspaces, a Japanese firm is thinking one step ahead. GMO has just unveiled a "Humanoid Ambulance" that it will roll out this month to handle maintenance tasks on-site.
Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology
Tags: Robotics, Robot, Japan, Ambulance, Maintenance
AGV has apparently reached the point where a motorcycle helmet isn't aerodynamic enough unless it is covered in thousands of tiny spheres. No, this isn't a joke, nor is it the result of an unfortunate manufacturing accident involving a tub of bubble wrap.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Turntables are supposed to hiss and hum a little. It's part of the deal. Esoteric's new T-01 breaks that deal by swapping its belt for a magnetic field, leaving the platter to spin in near-total mechanical silence.
Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Turntable, Hi-fi, Vinyl, Audiophile, Records
With technology advancing by the day, protecting our privacy is getting harder. Hidden cameras are one of the biggest public concerns. There have been far too many cases of people finding cameras in places they didn’t belong: hotel rooms, bedrooms, and bathrooms in Airbnb rentals. The problem became serious enough that Airbnb announced a global ban on indoor security cameras a couple of years ago.
Category: Good Thinking, Technology
Tags: KAIST, Privacy, smartphones, Cameras, Detection, Leds, National University of Singapore
Not everyone's knees are cut out for climbing up and down stairs or into awkward lofts. With this in mind, the Luxe 6.0 tiny house features a compact footprint that's laid out on one floor and has a space-saving design that's well-suited for use as a guest house or vacation home.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
Touchscreens are one of the most deceptively simple-looking technologies. A simple tap on a piece of glass can make countless things happen. In reality, touchscreens involve various complex electronics and manufacturing processes. Scientists have created a new touch technology using only PVC, laser printing, and regular printer toner.
Category: Technology
Tags: Touchscreen, Interface, Electricity
KTM hasn’t had an easy road. But you can’t argue that there are easier ways to save a motorcycle company than building a 690-cc single-cylinder rally bike. You could make a cheap commuter. You could build another middleweight adventure bike with a comfortable seat, a 19-inch front wheel, and enough electronics to make a fighter jet look analogue. You could even slap some retro paint on something and call it "heritage."
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: KTM, Enduro, Adventure Bikes, Off-road, Rallying
