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Remember the scene in Iron Man 2 where Tony Stark rediscovers a new element and is handling virtual 3D holographic elements with his hands, moving them around, pinching, swiping, flicking, and tossing? Pretty cool in 2010. What about 2025?
Category: Technology
Tags: Holographic, Display, 3D
Nobody likes being carsick, seasick or airsick, but what can you do to keep from getting that way? Well, according to a new study, simply listening to an audio tone for one minute might be all it takes to stop you from losing your lunch.
Category: Medical Innovations, Body & Mind
Tags: Nagoya University, Motion, Sound
Flying robots have some big advantages over their ground-going counterparts, but they're definitely not very energy-efficient. An experimental new bot addresses that tradeoff by using a wing-assisted mechanism to hop instead of walking or flying in the traditional sense.
Category: Robotics, Technology
Tags: MIT, City University of Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong, locomotion
Recycling massive wind turbine blades can be difficult because they're built from sturdy materials to weather the elements for decades. Researchers at Washington State University have devised a way to leverage those properties, and use discarded blades to create strong and durable plastics – without resorting to the use of harsh chemicals.
Category: Environment, Science
Tags: Wind turbine, Recycling, Plastics, Washington State University
Dirt Freak… with a name like that, you ought to either produce some solid, purpose-built off-road motorcycles… or an inexpensive vacuum cleaner. I’m glad to say it’s the former, in the shape of an electric moto from Japan dubbed the GE-N3.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Japan, Electric Motorcycles, Moped, Off-road, Dirt Bikes
As we noted for our review of the Freedo recently, warmer evenings up north could mean taking your entertainment outdoors. ViewSonic latest take on portable projection is a palm-sized model rocks Harman Kardon audio and is mounted to a 360-degree 3-in-1 stand.
Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology
Many cyclists may be riding blind and risking serious injury, with more than than one in 10 having experienced an accident that they found was due to a structural failure undetected in the bike. Researchers now call for more stringent testing of bikes to identify these red flags before things go wrong on the road.
Tags: University of New South Wales, Bicycle, Carbon Fiber, Aluminum, Bikes, Accidents, Road Safety, Ride, Cycling, Cyclist
A year after its no-show, Samsung has once again promised to bring its adorable Ballie companion robot to the market this Northern Hemisphere summer.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Airbus Defence and Space has taken the wraps off its fighter cockpit of tomorrow that it's helping to develop as part of Europe's Enhanced Pilot Interfaces & Interactions for Fighter Cockpit (EPIIC) project to build interfaces for next-gen warplanes.
Category: Military, Technology
A Japanese-badged MPV put together in the US and turned into an American camper by a Korean mini-camper specialist – that about sums up the new Unicamp Toyota Sienna Pop Top camper van. Or at least it tracks its melting-pot roots – the new camper minivan has a much larger story to tell, filling a major void left by midsize van market deserters like Ford and Nissan to serve as the affordable, flexible small pop-up camper the US market could desperately use. The Unicamp Sienna is ready to pull over at a moment's notice and spend the night, leveraging a standard hybrid powertrain, three-row passenger seating, and optional all-wheel-drive for the ultimate in impromptu road trip versatility.
Tags: mini-campervan, Campervan, Toyota, RV, Minivan, Camping, Travel, Outdoors and Camping
Remember the Mjølner? Not the mythical hammer of thunder from whence the name originated, but the equally earth-shaking V12 engine under development by Danish hypercar marque Zenvo. Welp, rip that "under development" tag clean off, as the first unit of the world's most powerful road-going V12 engine has been completed. The new quad-turbo 6.6-liter power plant will develop over 1,200 hp without violating the stricter emissions regulations coming into effect in the near future. And it will be just one of three motors powering Zenvo's latest hunk of four-wheel insanity.
Tags: Supercar, Zenvo Automotive, Hybrid, Engine Technologies, Mahle
You wanna drive a Mars rover? Well sorry, but you can't. You could, however, buy and drive a li'l four-wheel-drive rover that can be controlled from anywhere in the world via 4G cellular networks. Appropriately enough, it's called the EarthRover.
Category: Robotics, Technology
Tags: Rover, Remote Control, 4G
Did you know you emit a variety of gases through your skin all day long? These vapors, which include carbon dioxide, water vapor, and volatile organic compounds such as ammonia, can reveal vital information about your metabolic status, disease states, and overall health. Now, there's a wearable that can detect and analyze these for you.
Category: Medical Innovations, Body & Mind
Tags: Skin, Wearable, Northwestern University, Gas, Monitoring, Health, Healing
Four tiny 3D organs connected themselves in a lab dish, forming a replica of the human pain pathway, in a new study. The discovery allows scientists to better understand chronic pain and how pain perception is affected by conditions like autism and offers an animal-free method of testing pain treatments.
Category: Chronic Pain, Illnesses and conditions, Body & Mind
Tags: Chronic pain, Autism spectrum disorder, Pain hypersensitivity, organoid, Assembloid, Stanford University
How small can you realistically go before a tiny house becomes impractical? We're not sure, but Sweden's Vagabond Haven must be nearing that point with its Honey 216, which combines a well-designed but tiny interior with a price tag to match.
Category: Tiny Houses, Lifestyle
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
French scientists have uncovered an odd superpower triggered by tapping your finger to a rhythm – it can help you hear and understand someone talking to you in a noisy environment, such as a party or a busy cafe. While it may sound a little woo-woo, there is a reason for it.
Category: Learning & Memory, Brain Health, Body & Mind
Tags: Aix-Marseille Universite, Hearing Impaired, Hearing, Language, ADHD, Developmental conditions, Neurological, Neuroscience, Motor Skills, Brain stimulation
I've loved being a cat parent to our little Neko over the last couple of years, but I don't envy folks with several cats who have to repeatedly clean out their litter boxes.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Pets, Cats, Kickstarter
A decade-long study of around 35 million Americans in 10 states has found that group A streptococcus infections have more than doubled by 2022. What's more, "strep" – which also causes a bizarre flesh-eating disease – had become shockingly resistant to common antibiotics.
Category: Infectious Diseases, Illnesses and conditions, Body & Mind
Tags: CDC, Infections, Transmission, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Antibiotic-resistant bacteria, Bacteria, Hygiene
If you've been wondering how long the day on Uranus is, you probably need to get out more. But if you have, you'll be interested to know that observations by the Hubble Space Telescope have shown that it's 28 seconds longer than previously thought.
If you're gonna be inserting an object into one of your bodily orifices anyways, why not have it check up on you while it's in there? That's exactly what the OpenEarable 2.0 earphones do, using integrated sensors to measure over 30 physiological parameters.
Category: Wearables, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Earbuds, Earphones, Diagnostic devices