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This charming tiny house takes design cues from traditional cabins to deliver a rustic small living experience. Named the Nature Pod, it features generous glazing and lots of options including an off-grid setup, and it starts at just €14,380 (roughly US$16,600).
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home, Building and Construction
Divers may soon be able to get a welcome boost to their flutter kicks thanks to an exoskeleton developed by researchers at Peking University (PU). By shouldering some of the burden of underwater swimming, the device could also make scuba tanks last longer.
Category: Robotics, Technology
Tags: Exoskeleton, Diving, Underwater, Peking University
Before you ask: no, it's not AI. What you're looking at above is a skydiver framed by the roiling chromosphere of the Sun, with its arches and loops of plasma glowing brightly. That's the result of weeks of meticulous planning, a whole lot of astrophotography know-how, plenty of math, and patience.
Category: Photography, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Astrophotography, Sun, Skydiving
Groundbreaking research has uncovered a set of just three gene variants that can increase the likelihood of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) by up to 15 times. It's a remarkable finding, considering that thousands of mutations only come with a nominal elevated risk.
Category: ADHD & Autism, Brain Health, Body and Mind
Tags: Aarhus University, ADHD, Genetic testing, Genetics, neurons, Brain, mental health, Diagnostic tools, Neuroscience
This week, talk of the AI industry bubble has heated up, with Google's top executive Demis Hassabis throwing some fuel on this fire while discussing the release of the company's much-anticipated Gemini 3 model.
Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology
Tags: Alphabet, Google.org, NVIDIA, Open AI, Google DeepMind, Gemini, Investment, Artificial Intelligence
Glass-filled polypropylene is already a very commonly used plastic for automotive parts, but could it be improved? Well, yes. A new substance, Gratek, is claimed to make the plastic 20% stronger yet 18% lighter, thanks to the addition of graphene.
Tags: Plastics, Graphene, Automotive, University of Toronto
Cockroach infestations can worsen allergies and asthma in children, especially in low-income urban homes. One particular species of cockroach is known to carry bacteria in their guts that release harmful substances called endotoxins into their droppings.
Category: Allergies, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: Asthma, Allergies, Environment, Pollution, Air quality, Home
South African brand Alphago has made a name for itself in rugged, explore-anywhere camping trailers that haul big, inflatable living spaces up above. A small-packing, insta-inflatable tent seems a natural extension of that product area expertise, and the company outdoes itself with The Cube. The stretched, oversized glamping tent features an air tube frame designed to inflate within minutes at the push of a button. Want to make a cube city? Simply zip multiple tents together into a sprawling air-beam compound.
Category: Tents, Gear, Outdoors
Tags: Tent, Inflatable, Camping, Outdoors and Camping
In recent years, there has been a growing trend in wearable technology: trackers that look like a fashion accessory and yet are smart enough to help us understand our bodies better. If you’ve ever wondered what comes next after watches and rings, Lumia, an engineering firm from Boston, has just announced its new product – Lumia 2 smart earrings. It took six years to develop, and the result is a tracker that looks like a piece of fine jewellery and provides health data no other wearable has offered before.
Category: Medical Devices, Medical Innovations, Body and Mind
Tags: ear, Blood Pressure, Wearable, Harvard, Johns Hopkins University, Duke University
While most planes use heat to melt ice that can form on the wing either before takeoff or during flight, the process is highly energy intensive and can impact engine efficiency. A new process from German researchers shakes the ice off instead.
Tags: Flight, Fraunhofer, Ice, Piezoelectric, Aeroplanes
Jeff Bezos is gainfully employed once more, after having left his post as Amazon CEO back in 2021. Cade Metz at The New York Times reports that the billionaire founder of space tech giant Blue Origin is now co-CEO at Project Prometheus, a startup that describes itself as building "AI for the physical economy."
Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology
Tags: Manufacturing Technologies, Amazon.Com, Artificial Intelligence, Google DeepMind, Robotics
In the most comprehensive investigation of the ketogenic diet’s mental health effects yet, researchers pooled 50 studies spanning six decades to see what we actually know about its influence on mood. The results are a mix of promising and "too early to say."
Category: Diet & Nutrition, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: Ketogenic diet, Keto, Obesity, Depression, Anxiety, mental health, Diet, metabolism
Despite the advice of two of the most successful pop anthems of the last two decades, when it comes to depression, no one can just “shake it off” or “let it go.” If we jump back to 1988, we’ll find the advice “don’t worry, be happy” to be just as worthless. People can’t simply “think their way” out of depression, and hectoring them to do so probably makes them feel worse, which can lead to terrible results.
Category: Mental Health, Brain Health, Body and Mind
Tags: Depression, Suicide, Columbia University, McGill University
With the SoundCam Go acoustic camera, you can be that person in your neigborhood social media group who can answer those “Where's that noise coming from?” questions whenever an unexplained sound is reported. And the device connects to your phone.
Category: Photography, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Kickstarter, Sound, Audio
A sneaky, stealthy parasite queen can turn an ant colony against itself. Newly-mated queens of two parasitic ant species have been found to sneak into an ant colony, creep towards the resident ant queen, and spray a chemical to trigger matricide, i.e., tricking ants into slaughtering their own mother so she can take over the colony.
Today's autonomous vehicles rely on cameras, radar and LiDAR sensors to understand their surroundings and avoid obstacles on the road. Boston, Massachusetts-based startup Teradar believes it can beat those technologies at their own game by looking elsewhere on the electromagnetic spectrum.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Autonomous Vehicles, Radar, LIDAR, Self driving cars, Terahertz
If you need to charge your $1,000 cell phone, you can simply plug it in, or even more easily, just lay it on a charging mat. But what if something similar to NASA's $2.7 billion Perseverance rover has somehow suffered damage to its nuclear battery, and is about to lose all power? Can’t it just plug itself in, or roll onto its own charging mat?
Category: Energy, Technology
The 2025 winner of the prestigious World Building of the Year prize has been revealed. The Holy Redeemer Church and Community Centre of Las Chumberas, by Fernando Menis, got the nod for its rugged concrete design and community focused approach.
Category: Architecture, Technology
Tags: Building and Construction, Architects, Awards, World Architecture Festival
One of the brain’s biggest benefits from exercise – the birth of new neurons – may not even require any movement. Instead, the beneficial “packages” circulating in the blood after working out can be successfully transferred to others.
Category: Brain Health, Body and Mind
Tags: University of Illinois, Neuroscience, Cognitive functioning, Alzheimer's disease, Exercise, neurons, Brain, Stem Cells, PTSD, Depression, Neurodegenerative conditions
We've all heard of the waiter's corkscrew, but how about the barista's Swiss Army knife? The Swiss toolmakers at Victorinox have teamed up with Italian espresso machine manufacturer La Marzocco to create a special-edition multitool that combines timeless Swiss Army standards with specialist coffee tools. It's a handy piece of EDC (everyday carry) for one of the world's most popular EDDs (everyday drinks).
Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors
Tags: Victorinox, Swiss Army, Coffee, ESPRESSO, Multitools, EDC, Kitchen