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

A synthetic opioid up to 10 times stronger than fentanyl is attracting attention as an emerging global threat, having been officially tied to more than 40 fatal overdoses over the past two years in the US alone.

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

Tags: Opioids, Addiction, Heroin, Painkillers

A spin on the classic plier-based multitool design originated by Leatherman, the all-new Blackjaw from Tsuchioto Works features a carefully curated selection of implements packaged into a single body. The tool is designed to bridge daily life, DIY projects and the great outdoors. Tsuchioto prides itself on including only tools it believes will find work on a regular basis, securing them all into a tight, compact EDC package. While Leatherman and Gerber multi-pliers will always have a place in any collection, the Blackjaw looks to be an intriguing alternative.

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Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Multitools, Knife, Outdoors and Camping, Camping, Kickstarter, Tools, EDC, Everyday Carry

At this year's Monaco Yacht Show, Rolls-Royce took the opportunity to make the world premiere of its NautIQ Bridge "Point Break" concept, which hides away the yacht's helm controls when not needed to give more space for socializing and entertainment.

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Category: Marine, Transport

Tags: Rolls Royce, Yachts - 49

A very different take on premium Dutch trailer camping from the Lume Ranger we looked at last week, the new Campanero blends safari-style tent luxury with fast, simple setup and the ability to grow with your family and needs. From solo escapes to six-person group campouts, the Campanero trailer is built from the ground up to serve as a modular platform for comfortable overnighting. And no matter how many people it's holding, the trailer stays light enough to tow with a small electric car.

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Category: Camping Trailers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: Caravan, Tent, trailers, Trailer, RV, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, Modular

Few cars on Earth can make you smile before you've even turned the key. The original Fiat 500 is one of them. It’s tiny, cheerful, mechanically simple, and so thoroughly Italian that you can almost hear an accordion playing every time one rounds a corner.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Fiat, restomod, urban transport, Most-Expensive

The trend with E Ink devices lately has been pretty clear. For the most part, they’ve been getting bigger, with recent models like Boox’s 13.3-inch Tab X C pushing the tech firmly into tablet territory. The Picco bucks this trend: its 3.97-inch display sits in a compact body roughly the size of a playing card, weighing just 58 g (2 oz).

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: E-reader, Magnetic, E-Ink, Portable, E-book

Dragon Tiny Homes' latest take on its Vista model maintains the compact frame we've come to expect from the firm, but tweaks its interior layout to ensure that the home is more suitable for full-time living.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

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

I hope I’m not being too personal by asking: 'Are your clothes usually bulging?'

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Category: Gear, Outdoors

Tags: xxKickbooster, Kickstarter, EDC, Workstation, Tools, Portable

SpaceX has raised the bar for spaceflight again as its Starship, history's largest rocket, reaches Earth orbit. Despite the failure of an upper stage engine, an abort was avoided, allowing the spacecraft to reach orbit and deploy 26 Starlink satellites.

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Category: Space Systems, Engineering

Tags: SpaceX, Starship

It's possible the Voge name is only familiar to those who devour an inappropriate amount of two-wheeler coverage – but from the reviews I've seen across European media, it's a brand you best not ignore.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Concept Motorcycles, Plug-in Hybrid

There’s a particular category of motorcycle that exists somewhere between a proper dirt bike and something you’d expect to find leaning against a teenager’s garage wall. The wheels are small, the proportions are compact, there’s usually no license plate in sight, and the whole thing looks like it should be considerably less terrifying than it actually is.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Dirt Bikes, Off-road, Electric Motorcycles, Enduro, urban transport, Affordable

An axe so tiny, you could actually fit it in a pants pocket, the Axvant looks at first to be some kind of model or novelty toy. Surely it's made out of foam or wood, painted to look like a real axe? That's a negative. It is an actual axe (or tiny hatchet, at least), and while it won't be felling any spruces or processing cords of firewood, it can handle more modest tasks around camp and yard. Plus, it's actually a multitool, working as its own fire-starting kit, mallet and bottle opener.

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Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Camping, Axes, Outdoors and Camping, Tools, Multitools, Survival, Fire, Kickstarter

Epson seems to think your 100-inch TV isn’t quite big enough. Its new Home Cinema LS5000, LS6000, and LS7500 home theater projectors join the existing LS11000 flagship, with all four capable of throwing images as large as 300 inches.

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Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Epson, Projectors, home theater, Gaming, Laser, 4K UHD

With its supersized dimensions, you could be forgiven for thinking that the Acadia tiny house shouldn't be referred to as tiny at all. Whatever you want to call it, this larger-than-usual home on wheels includes a pair of bedrooms and not just one but two bathrooms, all arranged on one floor.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

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

Smart curtains have been around for a while now, but this new product we've just come across makes it more convenient than ever to remotely control your drapes.

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Category: Around The Home, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Smart Home, Automation, Kickstarter, xxKickbooster

Lufthansa Technik has received approval from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) to install its AeroSHARK bionic skin on an Airbus A330-300 Discover airliner so it can fly as efficiently as a shark swims.

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Category: Aircraft, Transport

Tags: Lufthansa, Airbus, Aerodynamics, Biomimicry, Fuel efficiency

A test of AI models has found that a handful will choose actions that harm the user if it makes their pain go away.

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Category: Technology

Tags: LLM (Large Language Model), AI agent, Pain, Computer, Fear, chatbot