Beneath the expansive concrete overpass amid the bustling hub of Causeway Bay, you'll find a bizarre and enduring tradition in Hong Kong – "villain hitting." Here, elderly women perform an elaborate ritual that involves bashing a name written on paper with a shoe, while chanting, to free people from someone causing them grief and encourage fortune and peace in their place.

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Category: Holiday Destinations, Outdoors

Tags: History, China, Traditional medicine, Ghosts, ancient, Shoes, Fire, World's Most Powerful

“Purity” is one of the many myths of perfection, suggesting that absolute conformity is the only way to produce supreme value. Just as that claim is false for human populations, new research in physics at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) shows it’s also false for solar cells.

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Category: Energy, Engineering

Tags: Institute Of Science And Technology Austria, Perovskite, Solar Cell, Photovoltaic

This 215-sq-ft (20-sq-m) tiny house may be on the smaller side, but it still manages to make room for some of life's luxuries. The non-towable home features a comfortable interior for two and even has its own sauna and hot tub nearby.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

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

Imagine a device using an energy source the size of planet Earth, and offering nearly limitless electricity with no ecologically devastating mining required to get it. Science fiction? A lie from Big Battery? A fentanyl fantasy from the Energizer Bunny? No – it’s real, and it’s the ocean.

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Category: Energy, Engineering

Tags: EPFL, Clean Energy, Water, Semiconductors

Volkswagen hasn’t exactly nailed the EV game yet … globally, at least. With the much hyped ID.7 sedan scrapped for North America, and cars like the ID.Buzz reporting bleak sales, VW was in a fix.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Volkswagen, Electric Vehicles, Buttons, Screens, Hot hatch

I'm pretty religious about swapping out my HVAC filter every month. When I pay rent, I change the filter. That's just how I do it. Living in a beach town means the wind is pretty much always blowing, and in my case, it's blowing in from the Gulf. The means sand and dust are a constant. And at this particular moment, it's peak pollen season here! If I leave anything outside for a day or two, it's yellow.

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Category: Around The Home, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Air purifying, Air Conditioners, Filters, Home, Reviews

The Mova LiDAX Ultra 1000 was hands down the most frustrating mower I've used so far. The caster front wheels made this thing completely unusable in my sandy grass no matter what I tried. So I rage quit and took it down the street to a neighbor's house, where he and his wife spend a significant amount of time caring for their perfect lawn, perfect yard, and lovely garden. If there's any lawn this thing should, could, will, or has to work on, it'd be theirs.

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Category: Around The Home, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Lawnmower, Lawnmowers, Autonomous, Mower, Reviews, Garden

A lot of tiny houses nowadays are anything but. For those who think they should actually live up to their name, the Mantra Micro Cabin is an ultra-compact dwelling that ditches the bells and whistles to sleep two for just US$17,000.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

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

California-based aerospace company Airhart Aeronautics recently completed test flights of its new cockpit avionics suite for small planes at the company's Long Beach facility. We sat down with Airhart President Nate Thuli to learn more.

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Category: Aircraft, Transport

Tags: Aircraft, Flight Tests, Interviews

For most people, it’s hard to fathom what true speed on a motorcycle actually feels like. Even most riders have never experienced velocities that might make them question their place in the world.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Steam Power, Land Speed Records, World Records, World's Fastest, Crazy

This extra-wide tiny house takes a considered approach to small living, using its increased width not to sleep more people or squeeze in extra features, but instead to create an open, apartment-like home for two. It also has lots of upgrades available and can be configured to run off-grid.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

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

Safety is a double-edged sword on motorcycles. Between the thrill of being on a bike and ensuring you’re safe out on the road, it’s a subtle balancing act. This unique three-wheeled electric leaning motorcycle tries to redefine the boundaries of motorcycle safety.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Electric Vehicles, Electric Motorcycles, Prototype, Trike, Road Safety, urban transport, Tilting-Vehicle

Since 2017, LG's been hard at work perfecting the wallpaper TV, a screen that practically blends into your space with all of its components crammed into an impossibly thin form factor.

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Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: TV, OLED, LG

Founded in 2019 in Seattle, Hest has built a reputation for crafting some of the camping market's comfiest mattresses and sleep systems. Now it unleashes that know-how in memory foam construction into the greater base camp, launching a classic folding camping chair that looks like it might just be one of the most comfortable available. Truth be told, the combination of full-size, multipurpose foam cushioning and heavy-duty frame should bring this chair's comfort level closer to cushioned patio furniture than to the average quad-folding camping chair.

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Category: Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Camping, Outdoors and Camping, tailgating, Folding, Chair

On April 23rd, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched several satellites into low-Earth orbit including a 10-cm (3.9-inch) "origami" cube satellite with a reflectarray antenna that unfurls, origami-like, to 25 times its size when folded.

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Category: Space Systems, Engineering

Tags: Rocket Lab, JAXA, Origami, CubeSat, Folding

Patio season is coming up in much of the world, but living in a smaller apartment shouldn’t stop you from enjoying a good steak at home. At the same time, most indoor cooking devices make you choose between convenience and real grilled flavor. Cozytime Lumo attempts to offer both by combining infrared cooking with AI automation that always picks the ideal settings for different foods.

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Category: Around The Home, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Kitchen, Cooking, Food, Kickstarter, xxKickbooster, Infrared, Grilling

The appearance of blocky black solar panels hasn't changed much at all in the last several years, and in the case of many buildings and roofs, they can really cramp your style.

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Category: Engineering

Tags: Materials, Solar Cell, Fraunhofer

Shipping containers can be turned into everything from tiny houses to art galleries, but they all share one issue: poor thermal performance. The Petti Restaurant mitigates this by covering the containers in mud, creating a striking building that stays a little cooler in India's intense heat.

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Category: Architecture, Engineering

Tags: Building and Construction, shipping containers, India, Restaurant

A new injection developed by researchers and an Australian biotechnology company may have a life-changing impact on an estimated nine out of 10 dogs that suffer from serious respiratory issues directly tied to their breed. It has the potential to allow these flat-faced breeds to live happier and longer lives, in a far less invasive way than existing methods.

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Category: Pets, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: RMIT University, Biotechnology, Dogs, Respiratory health, Lifespan, Health

The beginner motorcycle segment is a very interesting space – you’ve got new buyers who hardly come with any brand prejudice. They’re open to trying bikes from a number of manufacturers; they’re of course coming with a budget constraint, and most of all, they’re looking at something easy and unassuming to get them started on their motorcycling journey.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: qjmotor, Supermoto, Enduro, Dirt Bikes, Off-road