Different yet familiar, the new Trailster Truck Camper from Arizona's Unplug Outdoor Company is yet another spin on the pickup camping topper, a particularly low profile, lightweight spin. The Trailster stands at cab height on the bed like a heavy-duty expedition-grade cap, but rather than the simple fixed body of other caps, it features an integrated fold-out tent ready to sleep the overland crew.

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Category: Pickup Campers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: Truck, Pickup, Camping, roof-top tent, Outdoors and Camping, Off-road, RV

If you were a lowlife scumbag looking for someone to attack (bear with us here), you would likely avoid anyone who was wearing prominent front and rear video cameras. Well, that's exactly what the Urban Eyes vest brings to runners and other solo adventurers.

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Category: Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Security, Running, Wearable, Cameras, Crime

The World Architecture Festival (WAF) has revealed its shortlist for 2025's best new buildings. Encompassing 460 projects, from the small scale to the supertall, it's a great opportunity to check out amazing architecture from around the globe.

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Category: Architecture, Technology

Tags: Building and Construction, Competition, World Architecture Festival

When you feel like wandering in the wilderness – or just through the cobbled streets of old town – and need a capable Bosch-powered ride to fuel your adventure, Orbea has a premium all-terrain solution in its new Muga urban ebike.

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Category: Bicycles, Transport

Tags: ebikes, Pedal-assisted, Bosch, Off-road, City, Suspension

Honda’s e-clutch tech is a nifty piece of tech that was first introduced in 2023. While it already comes as standard on the current CBR650R and CB650R models in the US, Honda is set to bring the tech to its entry-level motorcycles. And rightly so.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Honda, Honda Motorcycles, Engine Technologies, Japan

Here's a unique take on tiny living, courtesy of Australia's Unplgd Tiny Homes. Its newest model, Bowerbird, is made up of two trailers, forming a remarkably spacious home on wheels that includes a large porch area.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

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

Jack Dorsey, most famous for co-founding Twitter (now X) all the way back in 2006, is cooking up a different way to connect people. It's a peer-to-peer mesh-network-based messaging app that lets you chat with people over Bluetooth, no internet access required.

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Communications, Instant Messaging, Bluetooth, Wireless, X (formerly Twitter)

A new study has found that your belly might reveal more about your brain health than your bathroom scales do, especially if you’re an older man. When it comes to dementia risk, the location of body fat, not just the amount, appears to be what's important.

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Category: Brain Health, Body & Mind

Tags: Dementia, Body fat, Body mass index (BMI), Cognitive functioning, Monash University

With so many multitools available around the world, you'd think there'd be at least one perfect for your everyday carry (EDC) needs. But that's not always the case, and even the most useful among them is bound to have an implement or few that you'll never use in your life. Why waste valuable pocket space with tools that are useless to you? Modular multitool specialist Roxon lets you spec your own multitool with components of your choosing, ensuring it's the best possible fit for your individual needs. With the all-new Mini Flex Companion, Roxon shrinks that flexibility down to an even smaller, more EDC-friendly size.

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Category: Knives & Multitools, Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Multitools, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, Backpacking, Tools

If there's one carmaker that has the ability to milk its star product, it has to be Porsche. There are so many variants of its 911 Carrera, that it’s almost impossible to tell them apart unless you're a car nerd. Now, that list is set to get even bigger for 2026.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Porsche, 911, AWD

There are loads of small sheltered hammocks and suspended tree tents out there, but many of them are a little old-fashioned – they require two or more trees to work. In contrast, the new Anymaka Hammock Tent brings its own suspension system, hanging from a portable folding stand so it can pitch anywhere, trees or not. Use it on the beach, open lawns, tundra, desert and anywhere else you can't find a single tree, let alone a perfectly spaced pair.

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Category: Tents, Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Tent, Hammocks, Camping

What could be cooler than a jet-powered equivalent of a quadcopter drone? Well, how about a larger passenger-carrying version? That's exactly what aviation firm FusionFlight has just revealed, in the form of its Axion aircraft.

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Category: Aircraft, Transport

Tags: VTOL, Jets, Personal Flight

Globally, stomach cancer is on the rise in young people, but new research shows that three-quarters of future cases could be prevented by screening for and treating a common bacterial infection: Helicobacter pylori.

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Category: Illnesses and conditions, Body & Mind

Tags: Cancer, Gastric cancer, Bacteria, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)

We currently use a lot of ammonia to produce fertilizer, refrigerants, and other chemicals, and unfortunately rely heavily on an energy-intensive process developed in the 19th century – the Haber-Bosch process – to make it in large quantities.

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Category: Energy, Technology

Tags: Ammonia, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Greenhouse emissions, Agriculture, University of Sydney

A safe and affordable treatment to slow the advancement of Parkinson's dementia has emerged – in the form of a commonly available cough syrup that's already being studied for its positive effect on other degenerative diseases.

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Category: Alzheimer's & Dementia, Brain Health, Body & Mind

Tags: Parkinson's Disease, Dementia, Brain, clinical trials, Brain activity, Cognitive functioning

NASA"s beleaguered Mars Sample Return mission may get a reprieve from an unexpected source. Lockheed Martin has proposed a streamlined, lower-cost alternative that could slash the mission’s price tag by more than half.

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Category: Space, Science

Tags: Lockheed Martin, NASA, Mars

A new video takes you inside Dyson's impressive vertical farming operation, which is home to 1,225,000 strawberry plants and shows you how the company is applying its manufacturing knowledge to producing homegrown food for British consumers.

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Category: Environment, Science

Tags: Farming, Vertical Farming, Dyson, Biofuel, Fruit

While still a couple years away from going live, China has just unveiled two turbines so massive it's hard to comprehend. With an outer diameter of 20 ft, 5 in (6.2 m), each turbine weighs 80 tons, is constructed from high-strength martensitic steel, and houses 21 water ladles.

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Category: Energy, Technology

Tags: China, Hydro-Electric, Green+Energy, Renewable Energy

Mercedes-Benz is serious about electric luxury travel, and its upcoming VLE electric van is the latest proof of this. In the latest round of real-world tests, the MPV completed a 684-mile (1,100-km) journey from Stuttgart to Rome with impressive efficiency.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Mercedes-Benz, Mercedes, Electric Vehicles, electric-camper, Van, Road Tests

New research has found that drinking camel milk can reduce the severity of asthma caused by house dust mites, a major trigger. While the research is still in the early stages, it opens the door to using camel milk in combination with existing therapies.

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Category: Allergies, Illnesses and conditions, Body & Mind

Tags: Asthma, Allergies, Inflammation, The Immune System, T-cells