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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Category: Military, Engineering
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.
Category: Automotive, Transport
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tags: Marine Biology, Fish, Reproduction, Cloning
Tiny house builders are always experimenting with new ideas to maximize floorspace. Case in point is the Onda, which turns the usual layout on its head to provide a roomy interior that places three bedrooms downstairs, and the main living area upstairs.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
I've purchased a couple of massaging dodads in my day – the ubiquitous early-2000s "shiatsu back massager with heat" kind of thing you'd see on TV and whatnot – but those roller balls always end up just jabbing my sacrum or spine, making me more irritated than relaxed. So I gave up on gizmos of questionable quality and decided I'd continue my usual once a decade or so visit to an actual pro.
Category: Wearables, Consumer Tech, Technology
Everyone’s got a past, and Italian supercar maker Lamborghini is no different. The 80s were a weird time for the brand. Bankruptcy-led reorganization forced the exit of the founder, Ferruccio Lamborghini, out of the company, and in came French businessmen, the Mimran brothers.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Lamborghini, Kawasaki, Superbike, Retro
California-based startup Vital Lyfe says its first product, a portable battery-powered filtration system, can provide safe drinking water from any source on demand – including seawater.
Category: Outdoors
Tags: Water, Salt-water, Filters, Desalination
For the first time, astronomers claim they’ve found a way to reconstruct a galaxy’s entire ‘life story’ – from a single snapshot in time.
Tags: Astronomy, Spectroscopy, UCSC, Harvard-Smithsonian, Astrophysics
The Esther ditches the ubiquitous tiny house loft bedroom in favor of a spacious single-floor layout that sleeps up to two people. The home is built with regular travel in mind and can optionally run off-grid, allowing its owners to cut the cord and embrace a nomadic lifestyle.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
