When I was shopping for a basic fitness tracker a few months ago, I opted for the Nothing Watch 3 Pro because it included a recorder for capturing voice notes on the go – which I do often. That model beams your notes over to your phone, where they're handily transcribed in a companion app.
Category: Wearables, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Fitness, Health, xxKickbooster, Kickstarter, Voice Recorder, Artificial Intelligence
Prior to this week, the terms "world's largest electric motorhome" and "1,000-km range" could have led to only one conclusion: one of China's latest high-mileage extended range electric vehicle (EREV) platforms got outfitted with a big motorhome box. But the most massive electric motorhome we spotted at this year's Düsseldorf Caravan Salon wasn't a range-extender, and it wasn't Chinese. The Dutch-German collaboration is a pure-battery-powered long-haul Mercedes-Benz Actros truck with a self-contained fuel-free motorhome out back. And not only was it one of the most impressive vehicles of the entire show, it's about to further impress with an around-the-world road trip that targets a range as high as 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) per charge.
Category: RVs and Motorhomes, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: electric-camper, RV, smart RV, Mercedes-Benz, Daimler, Bliss Mobil, World Records, Motorhomes, Motorhome, dusseldorf-caravan-salon-2026, expedition vehicles
While gimbal-stabilized video cameras are great for smoothing out the shakes, sometimes it's nice to have a tiny wearable camera, too. Well, Hohem's just-announced Eyepic will soon let you have both in one modular device.
Category: Photography, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Video Cameras, Gimbals, Actioncam, IFA 2026, Modular
Remember when "Chinese car" and "safety" were two phrases that didn't exactly belong in the same sentence? Well, the European New Car Assessment Programme’s (NCAP) latest crash tests have a rather awkward update for you.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Electric Vehicles, China, Road Safety, crash test
Parkinson’s disease is significantly less common among people who smoke cigarettes. It’s a paradox that has perplexed researchers for decades, drawing speculation that tobacco smoke somehow protects the brain from developing the neurodegenerative condition.
Category: Mental Health, Brain Health, Body and Mind
Tags: Smoking, Parkinson's Disease, Dopamine, Heart Disease, Lung disease, Carbon Monoxide
Outdoor cooks have traditionally had to face a tricky decision: pack a heavy basecamp barbecue or settle for single-purpose minimalist backpacking gear.
Category: Outdoor Cooking, Gear, Outdoors
Tags: xxKickbooster, Kickstarter, Titanium, Foldable, Flat, Cooking, Camping, Portable
Apple just unveiled its first-ever foldable phone, the iPhone Duo.
Category: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Apple, Smartphones, iPhone, Foldable
If you've ever bought a clock worth north of US$15,000 and wished that it were more like a piece of flatpack furniture, then MB&F and Maison Alcée feel your pain. The result is the Nostromo, a haute horlogie clock you put together yourself.
Category: Good Thinking, Technology
Cadillacs were all the rage back in the day. Everyone had one, and those who didn’t have one wanted one. At the peak of their popularity, GM was selling hundreds of thousands of Cadillacs a year, turning the brand into the ultimate American symbol of wealth and success.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Cadillac, GM, Coachbuilt, Luxury
If you think that cockroaches are creepy and useless, we can prove you wrong. Well, at least the “useless” part.
Category: Robotics, Engineering
Tags: University of Queensland, Cyborg, Insect, Rescue, Disasters
Years of electric vehicle (EV) democratization now leads us to Canada – the electric light-utility manufacturer NorthForge, to be precise. The firm has just recently launched the Dispatch, an electric tactical motorcycle that’s meant for military use.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Electric Motorcycles, Canada, Off-road, Dirt Bikes, Army
Tiny houses don't come much bigger or more spacious than this recent XL model. It features a roomy and apartment-like interior that's arranged on one floor, making small living about as comfortable as possible.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
When a boy with a strange honeycomb pattern on his stomach was brought into the University Hospitals of Leicester emergency department, nursing staff suspected a case of spontaneous bruising.
Category: Imaging & Diagnostics, Medical Innovations, Body and Mind
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
