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The Mobi Individual Baobab is a spacious tiny house that includes two bedrooms, plus a sofa bed for guests. Additionally, its exterior features a staircase that provides access to a useful rooftop deck area.
Category: Tiny Houses, Lifestyle
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
Scientists have engineered a hybrid mouse with a gene that predates all animal life. The team replaced a single gene in the mouse stem cells with a version from an ancient, single-celled ancestor, and successfully grew healthy live mice from it.
Tags: Stem Cells, Cells, Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPS), Queen Mary University of London, Mouse, Regenerative, Regenerative Medicine, University of Hong Kong
DJI launched an "ultralight, compact wireless microphone" this week called the Mic Mini. Weighing just 10 g, you may not even notice it's there. But the day before, an Indonesian company stole much of DJI's thunder with a cheaper, smaller and lighter namesake.
Category: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Microphone, Wireless, Compact, Lightweight
If you've never heard of fox nuts, you'd be forgiven for assuming that they don't sound particularly palatable. But they're actually starchy seeds harvested from an aquatic lily and are being hailed as a versatile superfood, with recent studies supporting why they've been a powerhouse in Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine for 3,000 years, treating everything from obesity to high cholesterol and inflammation. And no foxes are harmed in the process.
Category: Diet & Nutrition, Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & Mind
Tags: Health, Nutrition, Antioxidant, Diabetes, Obesity, Amino Acids, kidney, anti-aging, Diet
Multitool maker Sanctum has unhinged the knife from its case, creating a modern twist on the pocket knife. Called the Hard Bar, the pocket-sized beauty also boasts a few other features that'll make it well worth considering as part of your EDC gear.
Tags: Knife, Multitools, Titanium, Everyday Carry
The BMW R1300GS is a state-of-the-art adventure motorcycle that has the credentials to take you anywhere, but the one thing it can't do is win you any drag races. But what if it could? Aftermarket accessories maker Puig might have the answer.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: BMW Motorrad, BMW, Adventure Bikes, Crossover, EICMA 2024
White canes are fine for helping blind users make their way down streets and hallways, but they certainly can't tell those users what objects, signs or scenes are in front of them. That's exactly what the Seekr is designed to do, however, using a heapin' helping of AI.
Category: Wearables, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Blind, Assistive Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
What has two heads and seven handy features? No, it's not some multi-talented sideshow oddity, it's the Y-IN multitool. It's available in CNC-machined titanium or stainless steel construction, and is currently on Kickstarter.
Tags: Multitools, Titanium, Kickstarter
Panasonic has bumped up the brightness for a new series of short-throw projectors. Billed as the company's most powerful fixed, short-throw LCD laser projectors to date, one model puts out 7,000 lumens and the other manages 6,200 lumens.
Category: Technology
Tags: Panasonic, Business, Museum, Projectors, Laser
Swedish startup Heart Aerospace is gearing up for the first experimental flight of the X1 early next year, an electric demonstrator aircraft that's the same size as its upcoming 30-seater commercial plane.
Tags: Electric Aircraft, Hybrid Air, Plane, Flight Simulation, Prototype
Injecting a natural hormone directly into the gut reduces the cognitive impairment that accompanies a stroke in the long term, according to a new study. The findings add to evidence that a healthy gut means a healthy brain and pave the way for a treatment that reduces the chronic after-effects of stroke.
Category: Stroke, Brain Health, Body & Mind
Tags: Cognitive functioning, Gut health, Stroke, Texas A&M Universty
Canada's Rover Tiny Homes, the firm behind the Cypress, recently completed another non-towable model that offers a similarly spacious living experience. Named the Silvertip, it provides the kind of home comforts that you'd usually associate more with an apartment than a tiny house, including a large bedroom, a bathtub, and a dishwasher.
Category: Tiny Houses, Lifestyle
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
Well known for its competitively priced room-dominating TVs, Chinese consumer tech multinational TCL is now offering a more flexible way to watch big-screen visuals with the launch of its first mobile projector. The all-in-one A1 puts 1080p Google TV wherever you need it to be.
Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology
It's 2019 and bottlenose dolphin #1022, born in Scottish waters in 2007, is suddenly spotted completely alone, hundreds of miles from his home before ending up in Denmark, some 500 miles (800 km) away across the North Sea.
Tags: Dolphin, Animal science, Lonely Planet
Three-wheeled cars are already a pretty unique bunch, but the Dragonfly Three Wheeler stands out even amongst them. It features a novel drivetrain layout which is claimed to boost traction and stability, amongst other selling points.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Three-Wheeler, Prototype
When it comes to monitoring the health of crops, aerial images captured by aircraft flying high overhead are only going to tell you so much. That's where an experimental new spectral sensor comes in, as it's mounted directly on the underside of individual plants' leaves.
Category: Science
Tags: Tohoku University, Plants, Agriculture, Crops
A Chinese mobile tech company known for its rugged devices has launched what's claimed to be the world's first 5G rugged tablet that also packs a built-in DLP projector. The Tank Pad also features an 800-lumen light to brighten up camping adventures.
Category: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Projectors, Pico projector, Tablet, Rugged
Upending long-held beliefs that testosterone levels regulate sexual desire, a new study has found that while the hormone plays a key role in reproductive success, elevated concentrations appear more intrinsically tied to 'courtship' – particularly in single men.
Tags: University of California Santa Barbara, University of California, Hormone, Sex, Reproduction
In an analysis of the sleep habits of over 72,000 people, researchers identified a particular pattern that can dramatically spike the risk of major cardiovascular problems. The good news is that the pattern is relatively easy to avoid.
Category: Sleep, Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & Mind
Tags: Sleeping, Sleep, Cardiovascular, Heart Disease, Heart attack