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It’s not often that an acclaimed masterpiece goes to auction without a reserve price, but this week’s fabled Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este will host an extraordinary auction on 25 May 2025 where a Talbot-Lago T150C Teardrop Coupé will face the hammer without a safety net.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Auction, Classic Motor Cars
Another study has added to the growing evidence linking the cold sore-causing herpes virus with Alzheimer’s disease. It also found that those people who used herpes treatments such as antivirals were 17% less likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
Category: Alzheimer's & Dementia, Brain Health, Body & Mind
Tags: Alzheimer's disease, Dementia, Herpes simplex virus, Herpesvirus, University of Washington
Before getting its blade-like 1000 portable electric outboard to the American market, Temo announced its official US presence with another mobile e-outboard system. The Temo 450 Carbon carries like a canoe paddle, but instead of manual muscle power, it tasks an integrated propeller drive with delivering up to 200 watts of propulsive power.
Tags: Outboard Motor, Electric Boats, Electric Motors, Portable
Solo Stove has long built its brand around fire, starting with camping and backpacking stoves and moving into the smokeless fire pit market. As it began expanding into adjacent product segments, a cooler seemed almost inevitable. But Solo has developed its cooler a little differently, turning it into a summertime answer to the central gathering place its fire pits provide. This ice chest spits out cold air and mist to keep everyone cooler through the dog days of summer.
Tags: Coolers, Cooling, Air Conditioners, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, Picnic, tailgating
"That is so cool! But what do you do with it?" Those are the two main things that just about everyone says upon seeing my Unitree Go2 Pro robot for the first time. The latter is a hard question to answer, as the bot is kind of a tool and kind of a toy.
Category: Robotics, Technology
Sometimes in life, you unexpectedly find yourself in situations where you just wanna say, "Screw it." That's where the FixBoy is designed to come in, as it's a compact titanium bit driver with magnetic storage slots for five bits.
Tags: Tools, Titanium, Kickstarter
The Double Duo shipping container-based tiny house is not built from one container like we usually see, but two. The extra floorspace allows it to offer a roomy interior arranged around a large living area, as well as two bedrooms and bathrooms.
Category: Tiny Houses, Lifestyle
Tags: Building and Construction, shipping containers, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House
Taiwan multinational Acer is showcasing a bunch of new products at Asia's largest tech expo this week, including a new compact smart projector. The PD1520s shines bright with 4,000 LED lumens, can throw up big-screen HD visuals and promises easy setup.
Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Acer, Projectors, HD, LED, Compact
The very first blood test for Alzheimer's disease detection has been green-lit by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), providing a simpler and less invasive method for early diagnosis and speedier intervention. It's a milestone moment for medical science.
Category: Alzheimer's & Dementia, Brain Health, Body & Mind
Tags: Diagnostic tools, Alzheimer's disease, Dementia, Cognitive functioning, Blood, Plasma, Brain, Treatment, clinical trials
Chinese hardware giant Huawei's latest piece of gear is wild. The MateBook Fold Ultimate Design looks like a 13-inch laptop on the outside, until you open it to reveal an 18-inch foldable screen that's just 7.3 mm thick. For reference, an iPhone 16 has a depth of 7.8 mm.
Category: Laptops, Consumer Tech, Technology
Axial flux motors have really started to make some noise in the electric mobility market of late. Adding to the hype, British market innovator YASA announced that it's opening a state-of-the-art "super factory" to boost production beyond 25,000 axial flux e-machines a year. Those ultra-slim, potent pancake motors will find their way into a variety of world-class vehicles from the likes of Lamborghini and Ferrari.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Motor, Electric Motors, Electric Vehicles, Manufacturing
A new study has found that after just a few days of eating a high-fat diet, the gut’s defenses are broken down, and an asymptomatic inflammation is triggered that can develop into a long-term problem. Importantly, the effects were reversible.
Category: Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & Mind
Tags: Diet, Inflammation, Gut health, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
An overland trailer builder with a unique background in airborne adventure, Mammoth Overland hit the off-road camper market sprinting a few years ago, releasing a slew of crazy-rugged camper trailers one after another. This time around, it's ditching the chassis and wheels and showing a hardcore off-road camper that leaps up atop the tow vehicle roof or rack. Still a concept at the moment, the all-new SKL is a highly impressive rooftop shelter that brings along its own solid-state battery bank and insulated aluminum walls.
Tags: roof-top tent, RV, Camping, Off-road, Outdoors and Camping, Overland Expo, Off-grid
A new study has found a link between the bacteria responsible for gum disease and atrial fibrillation, a common heart rhythm disorder that affects millions of people worldwide. It emphasizes the importance of adopting a holistic approach to medicine.
Category: Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & Mind
Tags: Oral hygiene, Oral bacteria, Atrial fibrillation, Heart, Hiroshima University
For years, the CRISPR-Cas9 genome technology has been reshaping genetic engineering, a precision tool to transform everything from agriculture to medicine. With its incredible efficiency, this molecular tool has been applied to plants, animals, and even bacteria. But until now, no one has used CRISPR-Cas9 on spiders.
I've lost count of the number of things I use around the house that I've replaced, simply because I lost or broke a small piece of them. They were otherwise perfectly usable and could easily be kept around for years more if I could just find a spare part – like the handle for my manual food processor, the nose pads for my eyeglasses, and the trigger buttons on my game controller.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Philips, Repair, Sustainability, 3D Printing
While we've seen a number of wearable underwater propulsion systems, they've typically been strapped to the user's arms or legs. The newly refreshed CudaJet is different, in that it's a true backpack-style underwater jetpack.
Tags: Underwater, Jetpack, 2025 Updates, Swimming, Diving
UK firm Bare Root Creation offers an interesting take on small living with this unnamed tiny house. The firm has transformed a dilapidated 1940s railway car into an affordable two-person model that would be well-suited for vacation use or as a guest house.
Category: Tiny Houses, Lifestyle
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, House, Home, Railways
Oukitel has launched what it's calling as the world's first industrial-grade modular rugged phone, the WP300. It's seriously tough, but also the most fun I've had with a smartphone in a long time.
Category: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Rugged, Modular, Kickstarter, smartphones, Reviews
It was race against time as NASA engineers recently raced to fix a thruster problem aboard the vintage Voyager 1 deep space probe. It's hard enough to repair a craft at the edge of the solar system, but this time they faced a potentially deadly deadline.