You probably know LG for its TVs and home appliances, but did you know the South Korean electronics giant also makes a whole range of gardening products, including planters and seed kits, in its home market? At CES 2025 in January, LG launches its smart additions to that lineup to grow flowers and herbs indoors – no green thumb necessary.

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Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Garden, LG, Lighting, Home decor, Smart Home, Smart

It seems New Atlas readers like tent camping in all its forms – from backcountry to safari resort, and from ground to rooftop. The year saw some highly innovative tent designs, with some designers intent on minimizing weight down to the last milligram, others daring to go much bigger and heavier in order to create the most comfortable home away from home one will find outside a luxury hotel.

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Category: Outdoors, Lifestyle

Tags: Tent, Camping, roof-top tent, Glamping, Outdoors and Camping, Off-road, Off-grid, Backpacking

With its Felicity 10' Wide model, Colorado's Frontier Tiny Homes aims to offer the kind of experience you usually associate more with a "real" house. Featuring a spacious and light-filled interior layout, the towable dwelling boasts some nice home comforts, including a dishwasher and a bathtub.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Lifestyle

Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home

This year has produced more than its fair share of unique and outlandish architecture. From a sail-shaped skyscraper to a revolving house, here's our pick of the top 10 architectural oddities of 2024.

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Category: Architecture, Lifestyle

Tags: Building and Construction, Skyscrapers, Tiny Footprint, House, Stadium

Just when you thought motorcycles couldn’t get any wilder, Yamaha has dropped the sci-fi-inspired Y/AI prototype. It’s built in partnership with Netflix for an anime called Tokyo Override, which is set in a dystopian Tokyo 100 years in the future.

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Yamaha, Netflix, Concept Motorcycles, Prototype, Futuristic, Artificial Intelligence

Nuclear waste. We've all heard about it, but what is it? Is it a problem without a solution? How big is the problem? And what exactly is this waste and why is it so important? New Atlas takes a look at the basics.

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Category: Environment, Science

Tags: Nuclear, Waste, Features

The end of the year is traditionally a time for reflection, so we've gone back through 12 months of new ebike launches, tech developments and e-mobility highlights to compile our pick of 2024's top ebike innovations.

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Category: Bicycles, Transport

Tags: ebikes, best-of-2024

About 20,000 components to every single BMW on the road today get put to the extreme test well beyond real-world expectations. Then again, sometimes a not-your-average-driver does subject their BMW to the same grueling conditions, like taking their M5 to Nürburgring Nordschleife for some fun weekend driving.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: BMW, Road Tests, Nurburgring

The M3 amphibious bridge and ferry system deploys in just 35 minutes and can support the weight of any of the main battle tanks in Europe. The system has recently been handed over to the Swedish military for the first time.

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Category: Military, Technology

Tags: Bridge, Amphibious, General Dynamics UK, Warfare, Combat

On December 26, 2024, in broad daylight, China took to the skies with the test flights of two presumed sixth-generation delta-wing fighter jets. The more documented of the two, the Chengdu delta-wing craft, has been tentatively identified as the J-36.

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Category: Military, Technology

Tags: China, F35-Fighter, Stealth, Fighter