Historic motorcycle marque Brough Superior is back with another collaboration that’s nothing short of incredible – and this time around, you can actually ride it on city streets.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Brough Superior, Aston Martin, Superbike
Draco, DwarfLab's new smart telescope, solves deep-sky astrophotography's oldest headache with a sensor that physically spins to cancel out star trails caused by Earth's rotation. It needs no equatorial mount, no guide scope, and no polar alignment. Just a bigger 90-mm lens and a bet that raw aperture beats miniaturization.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Telescope, Smart, Astronomy, Amateur astronomy, Astrophotography
With the tiny house scene slowly evolving from cheap and cheerful to large and high-budget in recent years, Dragon Tiny Homes is an outlier, mostly focusing on affordable and compact designs. This recent model takes its budget-friendly Sora 20' and adds a tweaked layout and some upgrades to maximize interior space.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Micro-House, Tiny Footprint, Building and Construction, House, Home
Few things make the career jump from regional cuisine delicacy to robotics actuator. Yet, in research vaguely reminiscent of RoboCop, scientists have used skeletal muscle from a literal frog leg as an actuator to control a tiny robotic manta ray.
Category: Robotics, Engineering
Tags: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Muscle, locomotion, Biomimicry, Swimming
Long before I wrote about science, I was a vampire. I worked at night, sucking blood in a hospital.
Category: Body and Mind
Tags: Psychology, Moon, superstition, Mortality, Emergency, Heart attack
Nature is undoubtedly the smartest engineer. Scientists have borrowed ideas from armadillos, elephants and birds to build robots capable of doing things that conventional man-made machines struggle with. Now, researchers at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering have turned to fish.
Category: Robotics, Engineering
Tags: New York University, Biomimicry, Fish, locomotion
Lifestyle projection pioneer XGIMI recently previewed its AURA 3 Series at IFA 2026. The lineup is headed by the flagship Aura 3 Max, alongside the slightly less powerful Aura 3 Pro. XGIMI is referring to the pair as the world’s first 4K/120Hz ultra-short-throw projector series.
Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: XGIMI, Laser TV, xxAffiliate, Google TV, Gaming, 4K UHD, Projectors, IFA 2026
There are many ways to purify water out in the wilderness so it's safe to drink. This new piece of kit makes it arguably more convenient than any portable device for the job.
Tags: Outdoors and Camping, Camping, Water, Filter, xxKickbooster, Kickstarter
I had the chance to review the Sihoo C300 Pro V2 a few months ago, and it has become my permanent home office chair. Frankly, I never gave two hoots about butt comfort during long hours of sitting before that, let alone reviewing elegantly built chairs. Fast-forward to now, and I think I may have just become a full-fledged chair reviewer.
Category: Around The Home, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Home office, Chair, Ergonomic, Affordable, Office, Furniture, Comfort, Reviews
A restless night doesn’t just make for an irritable day at the office. It can eat away at our recall, making it harder to retain information and learn new skills.
Category: Brain Health, Body and Mind
Tags: Sleep, Exercise, Memory, Cognitive functioning, Circadian Rhythms, Brain
If you find it hard to focus or stay present in the moment, you can now buy a device that tells you just how often your mind drifts elsewhere.
Category: Wearables, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: EEG, Electroencephalography (EEG), Brain, wearable electronics, Well-being
One day in the near future you could be lying incapacitated in the middle of an earthquake-ravaged landscape where wheeled vehicles can’t reach you. Or in the very distant future, after engineers have solved thousands of problems associated with saving interplanetary astronauts from radiation, your great-granddaughter could be lying incapacitated in the middle of a marsquake-ravaged landscape where wheeled vehicles can’t reach her.
Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology
Tags: Biomimicry, locomotion, Insect, Learning, Tohoku University, Artificial Intelligence
When we first spotted the Italian brand "Cubivan" at the Düsseldorf Caravan Salon this past weekend, we assumed it was another in the burgeoning market of complete in-van camper pods, or maybe a boxy camper module built to go on top of a van chassis. Both guesses were kind of right, but neither quite prepared us for what the system really is. Not only does the camper box slide out the back of the van like others we've seen, it expands right down to the ground to create a sheltered space that lives in perfect symbiosis with the base van. It's then able to fit both a kitchen and wet bathroom and is complemented by a hard-sided rooftop pod that completes the feeling that your vehicle has been commandeered by some form of industrial being ... but a kind one there to serve.
Category: Campervans, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: camper-in-a-box, Modular, mini-campervan, Campervan, Foldable, dusseldorf-caravan-salon-2026, Camping, Outdoors and Camping
Following over a decade of development, costing around one billion dollars, and requiring a team of over 150 architects, engineers, and designers, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is now finally complete. Looking like a strange spaceship has landed in Los Angeles, the incredible building holds a huge amount of art dedicated to storytelling – everything from Star Wars props to ancient Egyptian pottery.
Category: Architecture, Engineering
Tags: Building and Construction, Museum, Cinema, Art, MAD Architects
From Korean cosmetic sperm injections to experimental peptides, the wellness industry has become one of the world's most lucrative, projected to be worth nearly US$10 trillion by 2029. Yes, that's $10,000,000,000,000.
Category: Body and Mind
Tags: Nutrition, Microbiome, Inflammation, Health, Age-Related, Gut health
Scientists have uncovered a new pathogen transmitted to humans from ticks, reminding us that one of the biggest threats to our health is zoonotic disease.
Category: Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: University of Minnesota, Tick, Zoonotic, Influenza, Virus, Risk factors
Every second counts in a high-paced, high-tech world. Except when it shouldn’t.
Category: Technology
Tags: Time, Measured, Clock, Word clock
You can’t brighten a room with darkness, you can’t dry a towel by soaking it, and you surely can’t cool things with heat. Right? Well, maybe. Scientists have just built a solid-state cooling device that can use heat to generate cold, potentially opening a way for processors and other hot-running electronics to recycle some of their own waste heat for cooling.
Category: Energy, Engineering
Tags: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, University of Tsukuba, Shape Memory Alloys, Cooling, Solid-state
Dragon Tiny Homes regularly impresses us with its ultra-portable models. However, with this newest iteration of its Vista, the firm has maintained its usual road-ready size while packing in some notable features, including an open living area with a home office, plus a full kitchen.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
Epoxy is one of the great unifiers of modern materials science, bringing different materials together to form composites with combined properties that exceed those of any individual component. The problem is that once conventional epoxy cures, the resulting union is practically permanent. Separating the constituent materials for recycling can be extremely difficult.
Category: Materials, Engineering
Tags: Empa, Recyclable
