A flat single ounce is about as light as electric inflators for camping, backpacking and all-around outdoor fun get at this point in 2026. But that's for a model built to hold its own battery. If you're willing to forego onboard battery capability for an external power source, you can dip well below an ounce into double- or even single-digit gram territory. With its all-new AP01 Nitecore bests itself with a weight of just 0.77-oz (22-g) for a micro-inflator that can fill up a sleeping pad in just over a minute.

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Category: Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Camping, Pump, Backpacking, Bikepacking, nitecore, Inflatable, Outdoors and Camping

Fully-enclosed velomobiles may offer weather protection and an aerodynamic advantage over bicycles, but their three wheels do add weight and rolling resistance. The outrigger-equipped Manta ebike, however, takes a unique alternative approach.

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Category: Bicycles, Transport

Tags: Velomobile, ebikes, Solar Powered

For more than 140 years, the bicycle chain has barely changed. Inspired Cycle Engineering (ICE), a UK-based recumbent trike maker founded in 1999, thinks it's finally time. ICE has launched PERS Chainless, a fully electric drivetrain that eliminates the chain, the gear shifter, and essentially every component that can stretch, snap, or get caked in grease. It's a world first for the industry, the company says.

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Category: Urban Transport, Transport

Tags: Electric Vehicles, Drives, ebikes, Trike, Tricycle, Pedal-assisted

Finland's just inaugurated its longest bridge, and not a single a car or motorcycle will ever be allowed on it.

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Category: Architecture, Engineering

Tags: Infrastructure, Bridge, Finland, Cycling, urban transport, Urban Planning

A one-button self-adjusting pillow that gently shifts your sleep position throughout the night – without waking you – aims to eliminate the health and well-being issues we face as we become increasingly sedentary in bed as we age.

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Kickstarter, Sleep, Chronic pain, Insomnia, Health, Well-being, Brain

The era of us laughing at humanoids playing sport may now be behind us – for the most part – as a field of robots competing in a half marathon in Beijing demonstrated how frighteningly fast the technology has developed in just 12 months. Even if one model had a day to forget, smashing into pieces after tripping at the starting line, the record-setting winner is a sign of things to come.

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Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology

Tags: Future Robot, Honor, Humanoid, Autonomous, Beijing, Sport, Robotic construction, China

If it feels like AI is developing too fast to keep up with, a group of Chinese researchers have some bad news – because they've developed a model that "evolves" on its own, creating better versions of itself with each self-analytical loop.

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Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, China

While there are already bike helmets that provide vital wearer info in the event of a crash, they typically use electronics that must be built into the helmet. A new high-tech buckle, however, can simply be added to any existing helmet.

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Category: Bicycles, Transport

Tags: Helmets, Cycling, Road Safety, NFC

"Man overboard!" is one of the most frightening things you can hear aboard ship and the outcome is often tragic. Now, maritime technology firm Zelim has achieved official certification for its ZOE Man-Overboard (MOB) machine-vision detection system.

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Category: Marine, Transport

Tags: Shipping, Safety

In the running for best budget headphones of 2026, OneOdio's Focus A1 Pro outperform what you'd expect from a pair that'll set you back US$34.99. While they won't outshine premium audio tech, they leave the competition in their price bracket for dead.

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Headphones, Audio, Cheap, Noise-Canceling, Music Player, Bluetooth, Wireless, Portable Audio, Reviews

With its attractive wooden interior and minimalist design, the Scandi Inn wears its inspiration on its sleeve. Measuring just 270 sq ft (25 sq m), the tiny house makes the most of its compact footprint with a focus on space-saving ideas and storage.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, House, Micro-House, Home

The floor is literally lava on a nearby exoplanet, new telescope observations show. Given its small size and strange history, one team of scientists suggests planet L 98-59 d’s molten ocean and odd atmosphere might represent an entirely new category of extraterrestrial world.

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Category: Astronomy, Science

Tags: Planet, Exoplanet, Super-Earth, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Habitable zone, Atmosphere

With a simple switch of a magazine, the Drone Round is claimed to turn a standard NATO caliber small arm into a drone-killing weapon that combines the scattershot of a shotgun with the speed, power and rapid fire of an infantry assault rifle.

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Category: Military, Engineering

Tags: US Army, drones

The most versatile vehicle on the road is the minivan and, like cargo shorts, it’s often maligned for no good reason. The 2026 Sienna expands that high practicality by adding a hybrid powertrain as the default.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Toyota, Minivan, SUV, Hybrid, Reviews

Aside from being tough as nails, rugged gadgets typically prioritize long battery life, but increasingly, newer models have been adding in specialized tools for fieldwork. A projector, for example.

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Category: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Rugged, iTablet, Projectors

I'm not the first to ask this question, especially since sportscar maker Ariel announced the Atom 4RR nearly a year ago. But now that you can actually buy one, the idea that one of these track weapons might actually be blasting through city streets has me gobsmacked.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Racing, Ariel Atom, Go-kart

The Earth’s rotation has never been perfectly stable; the spin has changed significantly throughout history. Even slight changes on the planet, from melting ice sheets to flux in the Moon's gravitational effects, can make days longer or shorter. But for most of Earth’s history, the changes were tiny and driven mostly by natural forces. Now, a new study shows that modern, human-induced climate change is accelerating this effect, lengthening days at "unprecedented" rates.

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Category: Environment, Science

Tags: Climate Crisis, Global Warming, University of Vienna, Earth, Time

The VZ-6617 medium format camera, currently on Kickstarter, is a timely shortcut for the photographer eager to experiment with a range of formats for their landscape/scenic shots but hampered by the economics and restrictions of shooting one size at a time.

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Category: Photography, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Film Cameras, Kickstarter

Imagine slashing your cooking electricity bill by a factor of six. That would almost be as wild as cooking with water! Well, a green-tech startup from India called GreenVize says it has made both possible with a hydrogen-based cooking unit that runs on water and a little bit of electricity.

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Category: Energy, Engineering

Tags: Hydrogen-powered, Stoves, Cooking, Electrolysis

The warm waters of Mexico and Texas are home to a small fish that has produced nothing but daughters for over 100,000 years. Essentially, the offspring are the exact genetic copy of their mother, with no father involved. The fish in focus is the Amazon molly.

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Category: Biology, Science

Tags: Marine Biology, Fish, Reproduction, Cloning