With its corrugated metal exterior, the Zinc Studio Cabin looks almost like an agricultural shed at first glance. The home combines its durable design with an open interior that maximizes living space in a comfortable single-level layout.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
For those of us who weren't paying attention, over the last few years, scientists around the world have been one-upping each other in a bid to create the smallest QR code that can be reliably read. Now, Austria-based researchers have set the bar real high with a QR code so tiny, you'll need an electron microscope to see it.
Category: Technology
Tags: QR code, TU Wien, Data Storage, Ceramics
Watch as a team of drones destroys their target in a demonstration of Fury. That is, the Fury Autonomous Vehicle Orchestrator by Scout AI that uses proprietary AI software to carry out autonomous combat based on simple verbal orders from a human.
Category: Military, Technology
Tags: drones, LLM (Large Language Model), Artificial Intelligence
Who had a Ducati café racer on their 2026 wishlist? Not me, for sure. The Italian bikemaker is celebrating its 100th year, and what better motorcycle to do it with than the one that was pivotal in its historical journey: the Super Sport 750 Desmo.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Ducati, cafe racer, Retro, Racing, History
The most egg-shaped of all the egg campers, the British-developed Barefoot Caravan has been wowing camper fanatics with its shapely fiberglass since launching over a decade ago. Despite its compact, curvy size, it also boasts a 6.1-ft-peak (1.9-m) cabin with a private bath and convertible dinette. As with other RVs, though, Barefoot pricing has risen steadily and is now close to double what it was 11 years ago. Happily, Barefoot has developed the new Bothy model to roll pricing back in time while simplifying the layout into a lighter, more spacious offering. It's a compelling entry point to the egg-camping experience.
Category: Camping Trailers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: Caravan, teardrop trailers, trailers, Outdoors and Camping, Camping, RV
Although whitewater stand-up paddle boards do indeed exist, they're (understandably) designed to float relatively high on the water's surface. The Riverskate is different in that its bow and stern can be intentionally sunk, making all sorts of marvelous maneuvers possible.
Category: Boats and Watersports, Toys, Outdoors
Tags: paddleboarding, Water Sports, Whitewater
Chinese rugged phone maker Ulefone has equipped its new Armor 27T Pro+ model with an unusual party trick for a smartphone: a triple camera system that includes both thermal imaging and dedicated infrared night vision. While rugged phones typically focus on surviving drops and dunks, this model aims to give users superhuman vision in challenging conditions.
Category: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Rugged, Flir, Thermal, Night Vision, smartphones, Battery
Fumbling with bindings is nobody's idea of a good time, especially in the cold and the snow. That's why snowboarder Brendan Walker created the Machina MagIC Ride System, which replaces traditional snowboard bindings with magnets.
Category: Ski and Snowboard, Toys, Outdoors
Tags: Snowboarding, Kickstarter, Magnetic, Winter
Though it only has a length of 7.3 m (23 ft), the Venus squeezes a space-saving layout and two sleeping areas into its compact frame. The tiny house has lots of options available too, including the ability to run off-grid.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
There is no good reason for cars to roll off the assembly line without a basic backup camera washer. If you're driving in dusty or off-road conditions, or it's cold and snowy out, these things can make your vehicle a lot easier – and safer – to live with.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Accessories, Cars, Parking, Kickstarter
Dyson is following up its impossibly compact PencilVac vacuum cleaner from 2025 with the PencilWash, a wet cleaner that promises to make light work of mopping floors in small homes with a slim handle that'll have you wondering where the water goes.
Category: Around The Home, Lifestyle
Tags: Wet and dry vacuum cleaner, Dyson, Cleaning, Gadgets
Because knowing which way to jump is pretty important, the British Army is getting a new system to find where enemy artillery is coming from. Built by Leonardo UK, the SONUS Acoustic Weapon Locating System uses sound analysis to locate enemy guns.
Category: Military, Technology
Tags: leonardo, British Army, Acoustics
We frequently hear about ebikes that are designed to replace cars, but let's be honest … they're still basically bicycles. The Elecy, however, is a pedal-electric vehicle that's much more car-like than most, offering full weather protection and seating for two plus cargo space.
Category: Urban Transport, Transport
Tags: Velomobile, Quadricycle, Pedal-assisted
Toyota is suddenly bullish on electric vehicles, now that it’s got its own platform and manufacturing facilities for them. The Toyota C-HR has officially re-emerged as a fully-electric compact crossover instead of as the quirky hybrid crossover we remember.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: SUV, Toyota, Electric Vehicles
Longtime readers may remember a proposal to recreate the experience of standing on the the Moon inside a giant spherical structure here on Earth. That concept never materialized, but now, four years later, the team behind it is back with an even more ambitious vision.
Category: Architecture, Technology
Last year, the travel-ready KeyGo screen and keyboard combo blasted through its Kickstarter campaign to raise more than 145 times its initial goal. Now KeyGo is back with a few upgrades that might make you consider pledging if you missed out last time.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Kickstarter, Keyboard, Screen
Swiss engineering company Picasso has mostly made its name with sports supercars and hypercars. It’s headed by Stefano Picasso (not a relative of Pablo Picasso), and has just come up with a flat-track-racing motorcycle that features an adjustable carbon frame.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Racing, Adjustable, Carbon Fiber, Honda Motorcycles, Engineering
In many ways, the new Toyota Highlander is a landmark model: the company’s first three-row electric SUV in the US and the first to use batteries from the new Toyota plant in North Carolina.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Toyota, Electric Vehicles, Crossover, SUV
Before the days of memory cards, your analog camera would only take rolls of film that came in their own little plastic canisters. Loading them into the camera was an essential tactile part of photography back in the day – and now, you can kinda sorta relive it with this replica keychain that has a clever trick up its sleeve.
Category: Photography, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Camera, Gifts, Video Cameras
Much like Ford and its 40 years of Nugget camper vans, Mercedes has been working with Westfalia on its own little mini-camper since the 1980s. In fact, the Marco Polo launched two years before the Nugget and four years before the Westfalia-converted Volkswagen California. Now, Mercedes follows Volkswagen in leaving Westfalia behind and pulling its small camper van production entirely in-house. So, more literally than any other vehicle on the planet, the newly updated 2026 Marco Polo is the Mercedes of RV life.
Category: Campervans, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: mini-campervan, Campervan, Mercedes-Benz, Mercedes, RV, Outdoors and Camping, Camping, smart RV
