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An ambitious new timber tower in Toronto, Canada, is due to begin construction soon. Thanks to its innovative prefabricated wooden design, the residential building named 230 Royal York is expected to rise in a mere 90 days.
Category: Architecture, Lifestyle
Tags: Building and Construction, Timber, sustainable design, Residential towers, Canada, Prefabricated
A report from UK-based climate and energy think tank Ember notes that clean energy sources accounted for 40.9% percent of electricity produced around the world in 2024.
Category: Energy, Technology
Tags: Clean Energy, Solar Power, Wind Power, Electricity
Utah's Escapod already builds some of the market's sleekest composite teardrop trailers. Now it's turning its attention to offering a trailer tailored to the needs of mountain bikers, ebikers and other cyclists. The all-new Topo2 MTB features an integrated ebike-rated hitch rack, along with a veritable bike workshop. Combine those bonus features with the Topo2's existing multifunctional amenity set, and you have a towable multitool too bike-specific to call a Swiss Army trailer – Swiss Daysaver teardrop would be more accurate.
Tags: escapod, teardrop trailers, Mountain Bikes, Caravan, trailers, Trailer, Camping, Off-road
Until now, ebike riders would have to juice up their steeds using a charger supplied by the seller. Ampler has just announced the Nova series, with a USB-C port for top-ups using a power brick you may already charge your laptop with.
Tags: ebikes, Pedal-assisted, USB Type C
There's plenty to gawk at (and in my case, fall head over heels in love with) in this futuristic new Chevrolet Corvette concept from GM. I'll save you the anticipation: it's not going into production. But hopefully, it's a shape of things to come from the American auto giant somewhere down the line.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Concept Cars, Chevrolet, Corvette, General Motors
Looking for life on Saturn's largest moon Titan may be trickier than first thought. New computer simulations suggest that if life exists, there may not be a lot of it about. In fact, the mass probably wouldn't amount to much of anything at all.
Tags: University of Arizona, Titan, Exobiology
Portable projectors like the Freedo, Zip and MoGo 3Pro can help take movie nights outside, but what if you don't have a plain flat wall to host the visuals? XGIMI has launched a relatively inexpensive portable screen designed specifically for projected entertainment outdoors.
Tags: XGIMI, Screens, Projectors, Portable
The only de-extinction company in the world announced today that 12,500 years after it last roamed the earth, the dire wolf is no longer extinct.
Tags: Cloning, Extinction, Genetics, Animal science, Animals
Some electric skateboards are nice sedate things, designed for leisurely commutes on city sidewalks. The Mach One isn't one those boards. It boasts a Formula 1 racecar-inspired design, a carbon deck, and a top speed of 45 mph (72 km/h).
Category: Urban Transport, Transport
Tags: Electric Skateboards, Carbon Fiber
In the ever-shifting winds of "who-did-it-bigger?," China has just taken a back seat to European wind company Siemens Gamesa. The firm recently planted a colossal, world-record-setting turbine in the Østerild test field in Denmark.
Category: Energy, Technology
Tags: Offshore Wind, Floating offshore wind, Siemens, Green+Energy, China
Shenzhen-based home entertainment outfit JMGO announced a new affordable addition to its triple-laser projector line at CES 2025, and now the N1S 4K model brings portable Google TV to folks for a time-limited launch price of under a grand.
Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: 4K UHD, Projectors, Google TV, Laser
With its length of 9 m (almost 30 ft) and large covered porch area to encourage indoor/outdoor living, the Elouera tiny house is well-suited to life on wheels for a small family. It includes an airy and light-filled interior layout and runs off-the-grid with solar power.
Category: Tiny Houses, Lifestyle
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
There's seemingly no part of modern home life that can't be made just a little bit better thanks to smart technology. Case in point, the new Spicerr gadget that delivers perfectly measured spices thanks to flavor profiles you set through an app.
Category: Around The Home, Lifestyle
Tags: Cooking, Kickstarter, Crowdfunding, Smart Home
Award-winning custom motorcycle builder Maxwell Hazan has been creating stunning bespoke works of art on two wheels for discerning collectors for years now, designing and fashioning metals by hand since 2012.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Custom Bikes, Ferrari, Engine, Art
Britain's Ministry of Defence, with the help of the United States, has achieved what is being billed as a major hypersonic propulsion test of a new engine design that could power a cutting-edge hypersonic cruise missile for UK armed forces by 2030.
Category: Military, Technology
It was 10 years ago that we first heard about Cocoa Motors' new WalkCar, which was used more or less like a Segway, and wasn't much bigger than a laptop. Well, it now has a new-and-improved successor.
Category: Urban Transport, Transport
Tags: Electric Vehicles, Kickstarter
Kawasaki Heavy Industries has pulled the covers off perhaps the most outrageous concept vehicle we've ever seen. The Corleo is a two-seater quadruped robot you steer with your body, capable of picking its way through rough terrain thanks to AI vision.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Robots, Horse-riding, Kawasaki, Off-road, Hydrogen-powered, Concept Vehicle
Sometimes a flashlight just isn't enough. The Flying Sun 1000 drone system was designed with that fact in mind, as it uses 288 airborne LEDs to light up the night like the alien mothership from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Category: Drones, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Lighting, Quadcopter, Leds
We're going to be on the Moon a lot more often soon, and that means we'll need places to rest, conduct research, and work there. Building habitats and maintaining them will be tough, but bacteria could come to the rescue by helping repair cracked bricks made from lunar soil.
If you've ever eaten a pomegranate, you'll know that a great deal of the fruit is composed of its thick skin – which simply gets thrown away. Soon, however, that skin could be used in an edible coating which will help keep strawberries from spoiling.
Category: Science
Tags: University of Sao Paulo, Fruit, Fungus, Coatings, Food technology