After years of watching highway-touring RVs and off-road expedition vehicles get more and more expensive to the point of rivaling a lifetime's worth of luxury resort vacations, the past few years have seen a concerted effort to roll back pricing and unnecessary features. Joining some of the barebones teardrop-size trailers that have led the trend, the new M1 Lite camping topper maintains some of the best attributes of Tune Outdoors' popular M1 topper while shaving off unnecessary bulk and expense to create a smart, fast and light Toyota Tacoma-ready truck camping solution with eyes on the backcountry.

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Category: Pickup Campers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: Camping, Off-road, RV, Outdoors and Camping, Pickup, Truck, Overland Expo

InMotion sent me its flagship long-distance scooter made for big-n-tall folk – such as myself – for a review, and I have to say, after my first ride, I'm actually kind of shocked. While I haven't ridden a whole slew of makes and models, I do have well over 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of scooting about in recent times.

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Category: Urban Transport, Transport

Tags: Segway, Scooter, Electric Vehicles, Electric

In what seems like HAL 9000 come to malevolent life, a recent study appeared to demonstrate that AI is perfectly willing to indulge in blackmail, or worse, as much as 89% of the time if it doesn't get its way or thinks it's being switched off. Or does it?

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Category: Computers, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, LLM (Large Language Model)

After more than two decades of planning and building, the world's largest digital camera at the heart of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory on the summit of Cerro Pachón in Chile has snapped its first imagery – from test observations spanning a 10-hour window.

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Category: Space, Science

Tags: Telescope, Observatory, SLAC, Cameras, Astrophotography, Astronomy, Imaging

ESA has found a way to make its own solar eclipses more or less on demand and all it took was a pair of robotic spacecraft flying in a formation precise to within a millimeter of each other thousands of miles from Earth. Simple.

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Category: Space, Science

Tags: ESA, Sun, ECLIPSE

The Fairphone Gen 6 is here, and in addition to being repairable at home, it packs a neat little trick. A bright lime green physical slider instantly activates a dumbphone mode so you can focus on more important things than doomscrolling.

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Category: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Phone, Fairphone, smartphones, Repair, Modular, sustainable design

United Kingdom-based Enola Gaye has nearly 30 years of experience selling a multi-colored array of smoke and paint grenades for use in sports like paintball and airsoft, as well as for celebrations and special effects. The company has spun off a survival branch that applies smoke grenade-inspired design to products like the Ultimate Match, a powerful, weather-resistant firestarter that shoots out a mini inferno to spark flammable material into a warming fire. Simply pull the pin and get 'er burning.

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Category: Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Outdoors and Camping, Camping, Survival, Emergency, Backpacking

As our personal devices get smaller and are expected to do more stuff – whether that's your phone, a smartwatch, or a wearable AI assistant – they also tend to get hotter on the inside. That means it can be hard for them to deliver consistently fast performance, fit more components inside, or avoid getting too warm to handle.

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Category: Technology

Tags: Cooling, MEMS, Solid-state, Silicon

In an effort to supercharge the development of military drones, DARPA will this year fast track flight testing of five advanced Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) prototypes as part of the agency's Early VTOL Aircraft Demonstration (EVADE) project.

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Category: Military, Technology

Tags: DARPA, drones

Canister-shaped lifestyle projectors are great for quick and easy wall-filling viewing in a small space without the room being dominated by a huge TV. Yaber's T1 Pro also serves up mood lighting, and rocks the house with TurboSonic sound.

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Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Projectors, HD, Portable, LED, Pico projector, Lighting

A team of chemists has developed a new type of magnetic molecule that could be the key to storing vast amounts of data on absolutely miniscule drives.

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Category: Technology

Tags: Chemistry, Data Storage, University of Manchester, Australian National University, Magnetic, Molecules

Tiny houses are not just for living in, and we've seen the towable dwellings turned into everything from a wedding chapel to a pub. Dragon Tiny Homes recently came up with yet another use for them in the form of a mobile sauna.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

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

From home-building micro-factories to wall-building excavators, robotic construction workers are coming on strong. Civ Robotics now brings bot benefits to the surveying stage of the construction process, and they've just secured some serious cash.

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Category: Robotics, Technology

Tags: Construction, Robotic construction, Building and Construction, Automation

What will the orbital spacecraft of tomorrow look like? If Dassault Aviation has its way, it could be similar to its Véhicule Orbital Réutilisable de Transport et d’Exploration (VORTEX) reusable spaceplane unveiled at the recent Paris Air Show.

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Category: Space, Science

Tags: Spaceplane, France, Dassault Aviation

For the first time, scientists have unraveled just how high levels of fructose affect the body, flipping a genetic switch as it's broken down – one that primes your immune system to overreact to things it would normally ignore. In this "trigger happy" state, certain immune cells are less discerning, resulting in inflammation, more severe infections and even new food intolerances or sensitivities.

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Category: Diet & Nutrition, Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & Mind

Tags: Inflammation, Diet, University of Vienna

Eating just one extra serving of leafy greens a day could help protect your heart, according to a new long-term study that found that a higher intake of vitamin K1, found in spinach, kale and broccoli, was linked to a lower risk of dying from heart disease.

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Category: Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & Mind

Tags: Heart health, Cardiovascular disease, Diet, Edith Cowan University

A new study has found that psychopaths show structural changes in particular areas of the brain that deal with things like impulse control and emotional regulation. This improved understanding may help to formulate targeted treatment and rehabilitation strategies.

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Category: Mental Health, Brain Health, Body & Mind

Tags: psychiatry, Psychopathy, Brain, Behavior

Christian von Koenigsegg is a man possessed by forces that demand he create faster and more beastly machines till his last breath. His company's latest masterpiece is a sight to behold on the outside, and a feat of engineering to marvel at under the hood.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Koenigsegg, Hypercar

For the first time, a lab-grown brain-computer system has demonstrated that human neurons living and evolving in an artificial system respond to medication by learning, in real time, in a game-like environment. Subjected to anti-seizure drugs, Cortical Labs' disease-modeled neurons didn't just show altered brain activity, but spontaneous information-processing behavior. It's a huge step forward for the company's synthetic biological intelligence (SBI) technology and how we are able to research neurological conditions and develop new, effective treatments.

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Category: Medical Innovations, Body & Mind

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Drug development, Neuroscience, Neurological, Neural Network, Biocomputers, Biotechnology, Epilepsy

We already knew Eurobike 2025 was going to be packed with the smallest, lightest electric bike motors the world has ever seen. What we didn't expect, though, was for manufacturers to start outdoing brand-new products they previewed just weeks ago. TQ, for example, debuted what it calls the smallest, lightest, quietest ebike drive in its class in early June. Now, the German e-drive innovator undercuts itself with an even smaller, lighter motor weighing less than 2.6 lb. It's the all-new HPR40, and it's specially designed to match the light, lithe lines of road and gravel bikes.

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Category: Bicycles, Transport

Tags: ebikes, Electric Motors, Canyon Bicycles, eurobike-2025