There is a particular sort of helplessness that comes from knowing exactly how to fix a computer while being hundreds of miles away from it. If Grandma, the boss or a partner needs IT support RIGHT NOW and you're not there, well, you know.
Category: Computing, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Personal Computers, Remote Control
This isn't the smallest mouse ever made – that honor, as far as I can tell, goes to this 3D-printed number from YouTuber juskim – but it's arguably the tiniest one available to regular consumers. If you're serious about traveling light, it's worth a look.
Category: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Mouse, Gadgets, xxKickbooster, Kickstarter
Everyday-carry (EDC) tool designers seem to be in a continuous race to squeeze as many functions as possible into the smallest package possible (and reasonable). British design studio Ysmart London has introduced its new multitool, the Toolt, on Kickstarter. The company previously focused on miniature knives and flashlights, so let’s take a look at what it’s bringing to the EDC market this time.
Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors
Tags: xxKickbooster, Kickstarter, Multitools, EDC, Titanium
Originally called the Tusca HitchHiker before getting bought out and rebranded, the Freedom Camper has proven a very interesting development at the entry-level end of the RV market. It's an ultralight, hard-sided wheel-less camping pod that you can do with what you like. Strap it down to a utility trailer and you have a cheap squaredrop camping trailer. Load it into your truck bed and it's a no-frills pickup camper. Freedom has grown out the family with new models over the past few years, and it's now preparing to go all-out family camping. The latest Freedom design sees a rooftop tent (RTT) climb aboard a forthcoming cubic pod, creating space for up to four or five campers, whether dropped in a truck or towed aboard a trailer.
Category: Camping Trailers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: RV, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, Modular, teardrop trailers, Trailer, trailers, Pickup, Truck, Hunting
Thomas Edison famously regarded sleep as a waste of good work hours, electing to snooze a mere three or four hours every night. Benjamin Franklin wasn’t much of a fan of it either, quipping in his famous almanac, “in the grave, will be sleeping enough.”
Category: Sleep, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: Sleep, Well-being, Disease, Brain, rapid-eye-movement, Peking University
Volkswagen is bringing its most famous performance badge into the electric era with the global debut of the all-new ID.3 GTI.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Volkswagen, Electric Vehicles, Hot hatch, Europe, Performance
Picture a CT scanner and you probably imagine a donut-shaped machine the size of a small car, standing about 6.6 ft (2 m) tall and weighing several tons. Chinese researchers just built one small enough to hold in one hand.
Category: Technology
Tags: Scanners, X-ray, Imaging, Archeology, CT scan, Portable
This terrace-topped tiny house has a relatively modest length of just 26 ft (7.9 m), but it also has a lot going on inside. It's well-suited to both regular travel and full-time living, and packs in lots of storage space, two lofts, and even a kennel for pets.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home, Building and Construction
A landmark experiment led by Stanford University researchers expands the scope of what we can learn from lab-grown neural models, dramatically improving the integration of a human cortical organoid with another animal's nervous system.
Category: Imaging & Diagnostics, Medical Innovations, Body and Mind
Tags: Brain, organoid, Mice, xenotransplant, Cortex, Transplant, Stanford University
For small-scale farmers, diesel is a recurring headache. A bill that swings with global oil prices and never really goes away. Battery power has been pitched as the fix for years, but it's barely made a dent in the tractor market. GoSun thinks it has found a way to close that gap using an energy source most farms already have in steady supply, sunlight.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Farming, Automotive, Solar Powered, Electric, Off-grid, xxAffiliate
Logitech’s Spot sensor looks ready to take on a much bigger role in the smart office. The latest update adds integrations with 10 workplace platforms, letting this compact module feed its room occupancy and environmental readings directly into the systems companies already use to manage rooms and buildings.
Category: Technology
Tags: Logitech, xxAffiliate, Sensors, Office, Environmental, Automation
Believe it or not, the Cubivan Camping System wasn't the only multi-component camper pod system at this year's Caravan Salon built to slide out and camp outside the van itself. The Ebicos Happy Dreamer isn't quite as extreme a setup, but it is a similar concept with simpler execution. The main sleeper pod packs down small to store easily at home, then loads neatly into small and midsize vans only to burst out the tailgate at camp and create an instant bedroom. Buyers can use it on its own to create an overnight sleeper van or add additional components to build a more complete RV.
Category: Campervans, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: camper-in-a-box, Campervan, mini-campervan, RV, Modular, Outdoors and Camping, Camping, dusseldorf-caravan-salon-2026
Underwater drones certainly are handy for inspecting things like boat hulls and fish farm nets – or simply for exploring – but they can often be relatively large, complex devices that cost a few thousand bucks. Such is certainly not the case with the simple li'l BentiX, however.
Category: Drones, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Underwater drones, Remote Control, Ocean
We all know how crucial oral hygiene is for our overall health. The rules are very straightforward: brush twice a day, for at least two minutes, and don’t skip flossing. Sounds simple enough, but often those two minutes can feel like an eternity. Flossing after? That’s where many of us give up, even though it can boomerang back in the form of expensive dental bills.
Category: Around The Home, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Dyson, Toothbrush, Dental, Teeth
The A-frame Bunkhouse is designed for a good time, not a long time. The tiny house features an extra-wide layout that’s arranged on one floor and sleeps a family of up to four people in comfort on vacation.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
The maritime industry is under pressure to clean up its act, giving rise to everything from high-tech rigid wing sails to pioneering zero-emission designs like the Yara Birkeland all-electric autonomous cargo vessel.
Tags: Shipping, Hybrid, Electric Boats, Diesel, Cargo, Climate Solutions: Shipping
In Norse mythology, Sköll is the name of a giant wolf that chases the sun across the sky. I’m not sure if that’s what Stark Future was going for with the Varg SM Sköll, but well, that’s what the limited-edition electric supermoto is named. But more important than the name and its exclusivity is what Stark has done with the bike.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: stark, Electric Motorcycles, Supermoto, Super-Black, Titanium
A new kind of “super ice” that has its origins in a wild World War II plan to build ships from ice and wood pulp could give future engineers a novel toolkit for construction in polar or even alien environments.
Category: Engineering
Tags: Ice, Building and Construction, World War Two, Concrete, Genetic engineering
General Atomics has unveiled its proposal for the next generation of Medium-Altitude, Long-Endurance (MALE) drones in the form of its Wildfire Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS). Designed as a lower-cost, high-volume counterpart to the venerable MQ-9 Reaper, the platform aims to restore combat mass in high-threat environments.
Category: Military, Engineering
Tags: US Air Force, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Reaper, drones
The Kia PV5 has already set itself apart from the pack in terms of smart, capable, stylish camper vans and is proving to be the first really desirable camper base van of the electric era. Now it's being joined by the larger, roomier PV7, a modular e-van platform that promises to pave the way for more comfortable, flexible camper vans. And there's already confirmation of the first PV7 camper in the works.
Category: Campervans, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: Kia, Van, Campervan, electric-camper, Electric Vehicles, RV, mini-campervan
