Wittman Estes, an architecture studio based in Seattle, has unveiled the Whidbey Puzzle Prefab, an innovative take on sustainable modular housing. This 600-sq-ft (55.75-sqm) tiny prototype, located on Washington State’s Whidbey Island, is designed to demonstrate how prefabricated homes can not only minimize environmental impact but also provide a flexible living experience.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Lifestyle

Tags: Architects, sustainable design, Prefabricated, Home

Volvo has taken to a cutting-edge technique for reconstructing scenes in 3D virtual worlds to help its cars' safety software expect the unexpected.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Volvo, Artificial Intelligence, Road Safety

If you're looking to get more creative with your handheld photography and need a sensor larger than 35mm for the job, Fujifilm has a new mirrorless camera to show you.

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Category: Photography, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Cameras, Medium+Format, FUJIFILM, Retro

From the outside, the new Lutz 2513 Minicamper looks like a basic utility trailer. And that's because it is, a single-axle white cargo box from German trailer and truck body specialist Humbaur. Open the large rear door, though, and you'll find a simple but homey space that invites you inside with its sofa bed, soft-touch surfaces and rustic-chic accents. Buyers can walk away with a basic trailer for under €9K or spec out a full RV floor plan with kitchen, toilet, dining area and electricity for under €15K.

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Category: Outdoors, Lifestyle

Tags: Caravan, Trailer, trailers, RV, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, Cargo

The sooner a farmer knows that their crops are suffering, the faster they can take action to prevent major crop failure. A new plant-leaf-poking sensor could soon help them do so, by sending an alert as soon as the plant gets stressed.

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Category: Science

Tags: Plants, Crops, Agriculture, Farming, Iowa State University, Microneedles

Renault is reviving its rally spirit for 2027 in the form of the R5 Turbo 3E, an electric hot hatch with far more power and torque than you can shake a stick at.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Electric Vehicles, Renault

Electra's aircraft looks conventional enough, but it generates ludicrous amounts of lift, to take off and land at incredibly slow speeds, using almost no runway. With US$9 billion in pre-orders, it's outselling anything from the eVTOL world.

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Category: Aircraft, Transport

Tags: Electric Aircraft, eSTOL, STOL, Climate Solutions: Aviation, Electra (aircraft company), 2025 Updates

A study published in the journal Antiquity suggested an ancient South American civilization spiked a beer-like drink with psychoactive drugs as a way of maintaining social cohesion and forging new bonds with surrounding communities. The findings offer some of the clearest archaeological evidence demonstrating how ancient civilizations used psychoactive substances for recreation and social cohesion.

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Category: Science

Tags: Archeology, History, Drugs, Society, 2025 Updates

Innovative electric car maker NIO and leading battery manufacturer CATL have formed a partnership aimed at building the world's largest battery swapping network, while also promoting unified standards and technologies.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Nio, CATL, Battery Technology, Electric Vehicles

Huge tiny houses are all well and good, but for those who actually want to travel regularly, something smaller is a lot more practical. This compact model fits the bill and combines an open and airy layout that's all on one floor with a solar power setup that ensures the lights stay on wherever you park it.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Lifestyle

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

The Civic has become a lot more grownup since its 1990s heyday, when wannabe street racers and steel-wheeled econoboxes were its primary associations. The 2025 model year adds a hybrid model and some updated styling.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Honda, Hybrid, Compact, Reviews

Quick, what do Royal Enfield, Husqvarna, and Kalashnikov have in common?

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Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Kalashnikov, Russia

Known for its sleek, lightweight all-in-one backpacking stove systems, Jetboil was founded around the ideal of a faster-boiling portable stove. Its latest Fast Boil stove series makes boiling and heating that much quicker and more seamless with critical upgrades that include a smoother quick-dial ignition, better pot-to-stove locking system, and surer, more user-friendly grip. Cooking up breakfast, lunch and dinner miles from the vaguest evidence of human civilization becomes easier than ever before.

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Category: Outdoors, Lifestyle

Tags: Camping, Backpacking, Cooking, Stoves, Lightweight, Portable, Bikepacking

When crude oil is processed, a lot of grungy byproducts are left over. A new study indicates that a couple of those substances can be used to make low-cost carbon fibers, which could in turn find use in less costly carbon fiber composites.

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Category: Environment, Science

Tags: KAUST, Carbon Fiber, Oil

If the response to our article on the Tiruler is anything to go by, there's a lot of interest in folding-ruler multitools. The Pivot X is the latest to hit Kickstarter, boasting seven handy features in one CNC-machined stainless steel package.

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Category: Outdoors, Lifestyle

Tags: Multitools, Kickstarter, Steel

Philips Projection launched a 4K gaming projector back in January that was pitched as the "ultimate gaming projector built for unparalleled performance and total immersion." Now a brighter 120-Hz Full HD model has stepped up to play.

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Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Philips, Projectors, LED, HD, Gaming, Google TV

The Vipp Tunnel is a remarkable new building that takes the form of a chunky concrete tunnel. The luxurious brutalist-style home has been carefully installed to nestle into the surrounding landscape and also runs fully off-the-grid.

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Category: Architecture, Lifestyle

Tags: Building and Construction, Off-grid, Tasmania, House, Home, Luxury

I love me a bio-inspired robot that pulls off challenging feats by taking cues from the natural world. University of California, Berkeley (UCB) researchers have now shown off the one-legged Salto bot mimic the way squirrels leap effortlessly between precarious branches and stick the landing on the very first attempt.

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Category: Robotics, Technology

Tags: Robots, University of California Berkeley, Motion, Biomimicry

Researchers have found a way to take waste concrete from demolition sites and turn it into fresh new concrete that has a strength not seen before from such a product. The breakthrough could lead to significant emissions reductions in the building sector.

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Category: Materials, Science

Tags: Concrete, Cement, Climate Solutions: Cement, Building and Construction, Princeton University, University of Sao Paulo, Carbon Dioxide, Greenhouse emissions

The 2025 World Happiness Report is out and it's not good news for the US. While the top four happiest countries are no shock – Scandinavia and Iceland – the US is becoming unhappier by the year, slipping to its lowest spot on the table ever.

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Category: Science

Tags: Happiness, United Nations, World, Data analysis, Scandinavia, Taiwan