“Just a good old boys, Never meanin’ no harm, Beats all you never saw, Been in trouble with the law since the day they was born,Straightening the curves, yeah,Flattenin’ the hills,Someday the mountain might get 'em, but the law never will,Makin’ their way the only way they know how,That's just a little bit more than the law will allow…”Waylon Jennings

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Harley Davidson, Motorcycle, Adventure Bikes, Reviews

As one of nature’s most spectacular structures, Venus’ flower basket glass sponges can live thousands of years more than 2 km (3,300 ft) below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. Composed of lightweight, durable, flexible, glass-like silica structures, the pipe-shaped Euplectella aspergillum are also providing a stunning opportunity for aircraft and architectural biomimicry.

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Category: Materials, Engineering

Tags: University of California Berkeley, Metamaterials, Biomimicry, Harvard

A handy multifunctional contraption for camping, 4x4ing and overlanding, the RT700 Traction Crate from Colorado's Rock Tamers looks simply at first to be a new milk crate design complete with flip-open lid. It's rugged, capable of carrying just over 35 liters of gear, ready to work as a makeshift seat, and designed to stack up into a handy table for camp or garage. But its name betrays a critical second function, which is to provide the type of tire-biting traction that can rescue you from one of the more frustrating debacles of off-road travel.

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Category: Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Off-road, Emergency, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, Automotive

Earlier this summer, Google’s Debug program made headlines by applying to the EPA for permits to release droves of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes across California and Florida.

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Category: Society & Community, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind

Tags: Mosquito, Bacteria, Dengue, Disease, Infections, pandemic

Shift Robotics' Moonwalkers Dusk are the lightest motorized shoes the company has built, and it's the first model sized to the wearer's shoe, so no more feeling like you borrowed them from someone else. They glow as you go, and an upgraded AI learns your stride in about 10 steps.

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Category: Urban Transport, Transport

Tags: Moonwalker, Artificial Intelligence, Walk, Assistive Technologies, Motorized

Just a few weeks ago, we checked out a compact A-frame that looked like it might be about the simplest on wheels. The trailerable tiny home was little more than peak-to-ground roofing, a single rustic room, a door and a big triangular picture window. But now, we have a newly debuted towable A-frame that's even smaller, lighter and simpler. The all-new 2027 Alite brings back a renowned nameplate in the lineup of American tiny trailer builder Aliner. It weighs less than 700 lb (318 kg), sets up in 30 seconds and offers a hard-walled micro-hut in which two campers can escape it all.

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Category: Camping Trailers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: Caravan, A-frame, trailers, Trailer, Lightweight, RV, Camping, Outdoors and Camping

Desktop accessories brand Cololight is working on an interesting addition to gamer setups: a pair of speakers that appear to float around your head to create a more immersive experience while you get destroyed in your favorite competitive shooter.

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Gaming, Speakers, Kickstarter, xxKickbooster, Chair, Immersion, Audio, Surround Sound

While wrist-mounted dive computers certainly are handy (no pun intended), they can still be awkward to look at when you're underwater in full scuba gear. The Arex One mask offers an easier alternative, as it puts your dive data right in your field of vision.

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Category: Marine, Transport

Tags: Kickstarter, Scuba, Masks, Diving, HUD

There was a time when even speedometers were alien tech on motorcycles. It was a long, long time ago, but early-age motorcycle riders must’ve looked at the dial and thought to themselves, “I don't need this thing to tell me if I'm going too fast!”.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Road Safety, Smart technology, Radar, Motorcycle Gear

Flashlight brand Rodman is back with an updated version of its tiny ED08 model from last year. While it was already easy to carry, the new one features better LEDs and an improved build – at nearly the same cost.

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Category: Gear, Outdoors

Tags: EDC, Flashlights, Camping, xxKickbooster, Kickstarter

Electric cars don't cough out exhaust, but their tires and brakes are still shedding a nearly invisible haze into the air. A team of Dutch students has built a concept that gives those particles a static charge, then sticks them to a grounded surface, like a balloon grabbing lint.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Technical University of Eindhoven, Eco-Friendly, automotive designers, Electric Vehicles, Microplastic, Pollution

Superman was cheated. X-ray vision isn’t where it’s at. If yesterday’s writers of comic books knew what we know today, the Man of Steel would have shot muons from his eyes to see through walls of stone.

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Category: Technology

Tags: Muon Tomography, Laser, Archaeology, Imaging

The all-new Origin motorhome from Coachmen blows up the existing motorhome classification system and welds the pieces together into something new. It's a Class A that incorporates a heavy dose of Class C, with a weighty sprinkle of Class B for good measure. While it was conceived in the US, it also draws heavily from European RV design. And yet, it transcends all those classifications and "origins" and just looks like a place in which we'd like to spend time.

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Category: RVs and Motorhomes, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: Motorhomes, Motorhome, RV, Outdoors and Camping, Camping

Last week, Australia's prime minister announced that an AI model operated by OpenAI – the company behind ChatGPT – had gained unauthorized access into the country's healthcare systems. It was arguably the first ever breach into a government network by an AI system; PM Anthony Albanese called the situation "obviously unacceptable."

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Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology

Tags: Open AI, Artificial Intelligence, Anthropic, Meta (company), Google

It's always a real challenge to fit a viable tiny house into a length of just 6 m (20 ft), so instead of complicating things, the Sierra Tiny Home keeps things simple with an open, single-level layout that's well-suited as a weekender or vacation home.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home

Cooking outdoors requires a lot of planning and a lot of stuff to bring. A stove, gas, cookware, ingredients, utensils ... the list goes on, and it’s pretty easy to forget a few things. A new Kickstarter campaign packs all you need for outdoor cooking (or most of it) into a modular kitchen box called Hecheer.

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Category: Outdoor Cooking, Gear, Outdoors

Tags: xxKickbooster, Kickstarter, Camping

With its latest high-tech cargo ebike, Segway is clearly working hard to dispel images of quirky, self-balancing, stand-up chariots for tech executives with hair-buns and roll-along mall security guards in the early 2000s.

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Category: Bicycles, Transport

Tags: Segway, ebikes, Pedal-assisted, cargo bike

It was only a matter of time before Asian manufacturers hopped on the pickup bandwagon. After initially teasing its first-ever truck around two years ago, VinFast has now launched the production version of the VF Wild EREV (extended-range electric vehicle) pickup. And it’s not just coming for the mainstay ICE pickups; it’s coming for electric counterparts too.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: VinFast, Electric Vehicles, Extended-range, Pickup, Truck

One of the major appeals of tiny houses is the freedom that they can offer. Off-grid tiny houses take this idea a step further, allowing their owners to live independently wherever they choose to park them. Here are 10 of the best.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home, Off-grid

Wood is an excellent construction material. It’s durable, strong, lightweight, insulating, and one of the most sustainable materials you can think of. But it has one major limitation: it doesn’t bend as easily as, let’s say, plastic or metal. Today, there are two main ways to make wood curve, but both have significant drawbacks.

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Category: Materials, Engineering

Tags: Italian Institute of Technology, Wood, Building and Construction, Environmentally-friendly