Just two years ago, Volkswagen launched a new California, but the iconic camper van is already up for a refresh. Along with the Multivan underneath it, the California gets a new look, sharpened interface and improved driver-assistance package. Best of all, a new climate control feature promises to make camping more comfortable throughout the entire year. Combine all that that with existing features like an available PHEV powertrain and indoor/outdoor kitchen design, and we'd say Volkswagen has quietly introduced the best California ever.

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Category: Campervans, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: Volkswagen, Campervan, RV, Minivan, Camping, Plug-in Hybrid, PHEV, Outdoors and Camping

Just a year after the company's first foray into motocross bikes, Ducati has unveiled the Desmo250 MX, a fire-breathing featherweight built to dominate tracks with possibly the highest revving engine in its class.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Ducati, Dirt Bikes, Off-road

IBM has developed the blueprint for producing a processor using sub-1-nanometer (nm) chip technology, outdoing its own efforts to increase efficiency and processing power with 2-nm tech from a few years ago.

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Category: Computing, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: IBM, Chips, Nano, Performance, Efficiency

Lockheed Martin is moving the US hypersonic missile program a step closer to production with the announcement that it has begun work on its Next Generation Glide Body (NXGB), a new hypersonic vehicle designed for low-cost, large-scale manufacturing.

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Category: Military, Engineering

Tags: Lockheed Martin, Hypersonic

A lot of modern multitools are designed with outdoor use in mind: they are compact, functional, and easy to carry. The Ti-Trailblazer takes a unique approach by making a compass its main feature and building 10 additional tools around it. The product is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter.

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Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Multitools, EDC, Kickstarter, xxKickbooster, Titanium, Navigation

Chinese scientists have discovered a way to combine high-tech light-absorbing nano-technology with more conventional water-based carbon pigment spray to coat car bodies with a durable ultra-black finish. The result is a black that creates a ‘black-hole’ effect of virtually no reflected light at all.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Super-Black, Paint, Coatings, Cars, Robust

Laser engraving custom graphics can elevate your craft projects to make them feel more polished and personalized. A new tool for the job that we've just come across looks like a great entry point for beginners.

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Category: Electronics, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Laser Engraver, DIY, Craft, 3D Printing, Kickstarter, xxKickbooster

We spend around one-third of our life vulnerable, snoozing away the hours while prone to mosquito bites, bear attacks, and college pranks (depending on your lifestyle).

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Category: Brain Health, Body and Mind

Tags: Sleep, Brain, Synaptics, Brain activity, Alzheimer's disease

Though most human noses can detect suspicious smells at relatively high levels, they're not always able to discern every single scent. Researchers from the University of California - Berkeley, however, have developed an “electronic nose” that can pick up on the gases emitted by expired food or food allergens which they claim is “better than human noses.”

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Category: Technology

Tags: UC Berkeley, Allergies, Electronic Nose, Food technology, Nanotubes

Toyota-backed SkyDrive's SD-05 multicopter has achieved stable flight at 100 km/h (62 mph), proving its wingless design handles real aerodynamic loads. The milestone feeds Japan's JCAB certification process and keeps 2028 commercial launch in sight, if regulators can keep pace.

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Category: Aircraft, Transport

Tags: Aircraft, eVTOL, Toyota, SkyDrive, Air Taxis

A company known for its AI image generation has made a surprise pivot – to consumer healthcare. Midjourney has announced it will offer a "new form of medical imaging" using echolocation to map the body, in a day-spa setting, with the first center to open to the public in 2027.

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Category: AI in Health, Medical Innovations, Body and Mind

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Diagnostic devices, MRI, scanning, Health, Chronic illness, Disease, Age-Related, anti-aging

The first hotel run by robots will open its doors to the public next year. It comes as no surprise that it's happening in China – on the artificial island built for the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link, the cross-sea megaproject in the Pearl River Delta.

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Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology

Tags: China, Artificial Intelligence, Humanoid, Hotel, Tourism, Future, Automation, Autonomous

The GT40 is perhaps Ford’s most recognizable car. It’s the car that put Ford on the racing map, famously anchoring the historic 1-2-3 finish at the 1966 Le Mans to defeat Ferrari of all carmakers. It’s a car that has spun off a whole line of imitators over the years.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Ford, Ford GT, Le Mans, Ferrari, restomod, Audi

Chinese researchers have taken a big step toward a world in which we can cultivate organs for transplant, with the first-ever embryo-disc model that can support and grow the seed cells required for in vitro cultivation. It's also a huge leap for regenerative medicine.

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Category: Biology, Science

Tags: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Artificial organs, Organ donation, Embrio, molecular biology, Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPS)

If you've ever wondered why you remember surprises so vividly, new research has uncovered a fundamental pathway that encodes novel information in the brain differently.

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Category: Learning & Memory, Brain Health, Body and Mind

Tags: University of Sydney, Brain-computer interface, Memory, Neuroscience, Brain activity, Signal Processing

Colorado's Rossmönster really established itself as one of the great masterminds of RV innovation in 2021, when it launched one of the most impressive pop-up expedition trucks the world has seen, before or since. It then turned its attention to upping the ante on other adventure vehicle categories, releasing impressive designs like the glass-walled Lagom pickup topper. Now it's unleashing its impressive design acumen on the B+ motorhome category, redefining just how comfortable and stylish a small Sprinter AWD adventure rig can be. Its all-new Loft instantly makes existing B+ models like the Winnebago Ekko feel stuffy and outdated.

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Category: RVs and Motorhomes, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: rossmonster, Motorhomes, Motorhome, Campervan, RV, Off-road, Off-grid, Camping, Mercedes-Benz, Outdoors and Camping, Overland Expo

Neil Lu, Australian National University/The Conversation

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Category: Astronomy, Science

Tags: gravitational waves, Black hole, Relativity Space, Time, LIGO

Until just a few hours ago, I'd never heard of Amble, and certainly not the Amble One electric ... car?

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Electric Vehicles, Golf, Resort, Travel, E Mobile

An after-meal gummy packed with heat-inactivated bacteria appears to significantly reduce the prevalence of gum disease, with new research demonstrating that this simple measure could alleviate inflammation without upsetting the mouth's microbiome or requiring any other oral hygiene changes.

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Category: Diet & Nutrition, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind

Tags: Tokyo, Oral bacteria, Oral hygiene, Mouth-care, Microbiome, Microbes, bleeding, Inflammation, Anti-inflammatory

From cash crunches to vaporizing partnerships with major manufacturers despite a multi-billion dollar valuation and shipping just a handful of vehicles over the last 12 years, Faraday Future (FF) has had an awfully rough go of building an electric car brand.

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Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology

Tags: Humanoid, Faraday Future, Electric Vehicles, Robots