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As 2024 comes to a close, here's our pick of the best, most innovative, and most interesting tiny houses we've seen throughout the year.
Category: Tiny Houses, Lifestyle
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home, best-of-2024
The Outlander 850 and 1000R, the largest of Can-Am’s ATVs, are new for 2025 with changes from headlights to tail lamps. I traveled to British Columbia to climb mountains on the new Outlander models. The crisp of fall had yet to turn to winter, allowing us to use snowmobile trails before the snow arrived. The heavily wooded and rocky high elevations of BC are perfect for adventures on machines like these.
As another year draws to a close, it's time to once again look back at the cycling-related innovations that made the biggest impression on us over the past 365 days. Read on, to check out a dual-chain bike, a whip-fast electronic shock, skeletal pedals and more.
"Go big or go home" was the motto of the ADV motorcycle industry for decades. But for a while now, a small-bore revolution has been gathering pace. The sub-500cc ADV class is now bristling with options, pointing to the next big automotive revolution.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Adventure Bikes, Honda, Royal Enfield, CFMoto, Kawasaki, Suzuki, KTM, Off-road
Nearly half of US adults admit they’d take one of the newer, injectable weight loss drugs, but that number falls significantly when they learn that the weight might come back when the meds are stopped. It’s indicative of a pattern of people discontinuing their weight loss drugs, and it’s something that has medical professionals concerned.
Category: Obesity, Illnesses and conditions, Body & Mind
Tags: GLP-1, Obesity, America, Northwestern University
This year has produced a ton of excellent architecture projects, and with 2025 approaching, it's time to take a look back at some of our favorites. From skinny housing that fits into small inner-city areas, to an extraordinary pair of skyscrapers joined by a bridge, here's our selection of the best buildings from the past 12 months.
Category: Architecture, Lifestyle
Tags: Building and Construction, best-of-2024, Skyscrapers, House, Luxury
Some historic aircraft seem like a barrel for holding superlatives. One of these, the H-4 Hercules, goes one better because it's also at the center of one of the strangest stories involving possibly the 20th century's strangest man – Howard Hughes.
Tags: History, Aircraft, World's Largest
The Himalayas are a bucket-list destination for riders (and non-riders) the world over, a pinnacle of the splendor of nature. Here, the scenery varies from high-altitude desert to abundant rhododendron forests, with spectacular forested gorges rising to skylines of snow-capped peaks.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Travel, Himalayas, India, Tips, Travel and Tourism
Forget LEDs, researchers from the University of Michigan have developed a new type of incandescent light bulb. The device is capable of emitting elliptically polarized light, described as "twisted" light.
Category: Science
Tags: incandescent, University of Michigan, Photonics, Light, Light Bulb
E Ink tablets are great for those who like to jot, scribble or doodle, and don't want to waste reams of paper. But even modern e-notes can be more sustainable. Supernote's 10-inch Manta model is modular, and can be upgraded or repaired as needed.
Category: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, Technology
A new study turned up a surprising effect of having caffeine with a sweetener. For some java drinkers, it could be a way to get more out of the beverage. For others, though, it might be best to skip the sugar, especially at night.
Category: Diet & Nutrition, Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & Mind
Tags: Coffee, Caffeine, Sleep, University of Hiroshima, Circadian Rhythms
It seems to be an unwritten rule that when stuff breaks, there never seems to be a toolbox nearby. That's where everyday carry multitools can help, and the latest to blaze a Kickstarter trail is the titanium UltraFix Driver from TrekGear.
Tags: Everyday Carry, Multitools, Driver, Kickstarter
German eVTOL startup Lilium has ceased operations as of this week, sunsetting a decade-long effort funded with over US$1 billion to build electric air taxis, with nary a single aircraft delivered.
Category: Transport
An innovative company has done away with the one-size-fits-all model of seating, with a chair that is more like a furniture Transformer, letting you adapt it to your needs, rather than you adapt to its static design. And it looks like a statement piece in the process.
Category: Around The Home, Lifestyle
Tags: Kickstarter, Chair, Furniture, Interior Design, adaptive
It's really happening: Honda, Nissan, and Mitsubishi are joining forces to operate together under a single holding company, in a bid to stave off fierce competition around the world.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Honda, Nissan, Mitsubishi
After the FDA proposed pulling some over-the-counter cold and flu medications from shelves in the US, an Australian law firm has launched a class action suit against pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson, claiming that it has knowingly marketed and sold ineffective decongestants for years.
Category: Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & Mind
Tags: Big pharma, Decongestant, Methamphetamine, FDA, Class action