C.C. Weiss    Much like Ford and its 40 years of Nugget camper vans, Mercedes has been working with Westfalia on its own little mini-camper since the 1980s. In fact, the Marco Polo launched two years before the Nugget and four years before the Westfalia-converted Volkswagen California. Now, Mercedes follows...

Ben Coxworth    Many readers will remember the MetaFly, a remote-control robotic insect that flies by actually flapping its wings. Well, its inventor is back with a much more capable robotic swift (you know, the bird), which is currently on Kickstarter.Continue ReadingCategory: Aircraft, TransportTags: Biomimicry,...

Etiido Uko    What do nine-time Grammy-winning billionaire Rihanna, stunning beaches, and a potential 50-megawatt wave-energy project have in common? Barbados The island nation is deploying a unique type of wave energy technology to convert its renowned ocean waves into sustainable electricity and freshwater...

Omar Kardoudi    South Metro Atlanta is set to become home to a demonstration pilot for a publicly accessible automated transit network using autonomous electric vehicles on dedicated guideways. This system promises to end nail-biting traffic congestion, delivering a rail-like capacity at bus-fare prices without...

Abhimanyu Ghoshal    Lumberton, Texas-based startup Ecoute Audio made a splash with its first-ever product back in 2023, when it unveiled its TH1 headphones aimed at hi-fi enthusiasts.Continue ReadingCategory: Consumer Tech, TechnologyTags: Headphones, Audiophile, Bluetooth, Vacuum Tube, Hi-fi, Kickstarter

Utkarsh Sood    Maxi scooters have always lived a strange life. They’re not exactly small, city scooters, and they’re not exactly motorcycles. They’re sort of both - built in the shape of scooters but have enough power and space to go longer distances with the comfort of motorcycles.Continue ReadingCategory...

Jay Kakade    The earliest ancestors of all backboned animals, including humans, may have viewed the world with four eyes, not just two. The remnants of those extra eyes persist in the human brain today as the pineal organ, which is deep inside our brain, regulating our sleep cycle, but no longer forms images...

Adam Williams    The Chillhouse is a compact tiny house created with self-sufficient living in mind. Designed to operate off-grid, the towable home has a snug and storage-packed interior that comfortably accommodates two people.Continue ReadingCategory: Tiny Houses, OutdoorsTags: Building and Construction, Micro...

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Adam Williams    The Huckleberry tiny house may be compact, but it doesn’t skimp on home comforts. Featuring an extra-wide layout, it has a spacious apartment-like interior that’s packed with character and includes a bathtub, an antique stove, and more.Continue ReadingCategory: Tiny Houses, OutdoorsTags: Building...

Michael Franco    After an analysis of health data from over 131,000 people tracked for up to 43 years, researchers found that drinking coffee and tea daily seems to guard against the development of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of cognitive decline.Continue ReadingCategory: Wellness and Healthy Living, Body...

C.C. Weiss    One of the more out-there concepts to emerge from CMT 2026, the Wingcube is a unique style of trailerable expanding camp pod. It folds up into a tall cube slim enough to tow comfortably aboard a utility trailer, even around the narrowest roadways. After parking, the cube grows to more than three...

David Szondy    DARPA and Raytheon have teamed up to tackle a growing threat to commercial and logistical shipping: attacks by drones. The Pulling Guard project aims to develop a towed platform that trails behind ships, providing detection and countermeasure capabilities.Continue ReadingCategory: Military,...

Utkarsh Sood    You may have forgotten that the once Italian bike brand Morbidelli was still around. Well, it is, and under QJMotor’s Chinese leadership, it has been on an upswing of sorts - especially in European, South American, and Asian markets. Now, it looks like the company is headed to America ... with two...

David Szondy    The Artemis II mission, which will return US astronauts to lunar space, has run into problems that have critics demanding NASA remove the crew from the flight for safety reasons. The bigger question is, why do we have astronauts at all?Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: Mars, Moon, Orion...

Utkarsh Sood    The KTM saga is perhaps one of the most intriguing stories we’ve seen unfold in the automotive world in recent times. It’s been a relentless rollercoaster, and just when we thought things were nearing normalcy, another bump appears.Continue ReadingCategory: Motorcycles, TransportTags: KTM,...

Chelsea Haney    It turns out your mouth may know more about your metabolism than your bathroom scale. New research shows that people with obesity host a distinct oral microbiome compared to individuals at a healthy weight. Rather than zeroing in on the gut microbiome, the study turns our attention to the mouth as...

Michael Franco    Zinc oxide remains one of the best forms of sun protection thanks to its ability to block both UVB and UVA rays. However, few really appreciate its thick white look - except, maybe, lifeguards in the ’80s. UCLA researchers believe they have a solution.Continue ReadingCategory: Wellness and Healthy...

Shirl Leigh    The BeerPAN may be the entry point for photographers seeking an affordable alternative to vintage medium-format panoramic cameras that usually sell for several thousand dollars. It’s a 35-mm film camera that’s compatible with Bronica Zenza ETR lenses.Continue ReadingCategory: Photography, Consumer...

Bronwyn Thompson    In its time, Sea-Doo’s RXP-X has built a reputation as the company’s most aggressive, race-inspired personal watercraft - one designed for explosive acceleration, tight cornering and supreme control even at high speed. In 2026, the RXP-X RS 325 takes Sea-Doo’s flagship model to a new level, getting...

Michael Franco    While AI certainly has its issues - such as rotting your brain and making you stupid - there is little doubt that it excels in medical diagnostics. The technology repeatedly proves itself when it comes to looking at - and into - the human body and predicting disease risk. Some examples of AI’s...

Utkarsh Sood    A few years ago, if you’d told me Ducati’s sub-500cc street-legal enduro was on the cusp of a global release, I’d probably have thought you’d lost it. Fast forward to 2026, though, and that’s exactly what’s happening, with the Desmo450 EDS all set for launch.Continue ReadingCategory: Motorcycles,...

C.C. Weiss    Ever since Kia looked into the crystal ball of off-road mini-camping with its epic, little PV5 WKNDR concept, the world has waited patiently to see what it would drum up as a retail camper van built aboard its highly flexible Platform Beyond Vehicle (PBV) EV architecture. It waits no more. While...

Monica J. White    For most of us, it’s hard to fit our workflows onto a single laptop screen - not efficiently, at least. Whether you’re coding across multiple windows, tracking live markets and news, or juggling messaging, emails, and documents, constantly having to switch windows is just a hassle. Portable triple...

Maryna Holovnova    Frustration during repair jobs often comes from not having the right tool or bit size at hand, or from the tool’s battery suddenly dying mid-task. These are the inconveniences that Hong Kong-based company FixBuddy set out to address with the FixBuddy Ratchet. The team describes it as the ultimate...

Stefan Ionescu    If you’ve ever dreamed of zipping through urban streets or effortlessly biking up a hill in the countryside, Velo De Ville has you covered. The German bike maker has launched the Revo-C, an urban ebike powered by a revolutionary motor developed by the Chinese drone and camera giant DIJ that’s so...

Abhimanyu Ghoshal    An Italian optics research firm might have just tackled literally the biggest issue I face while motorcycling: the sun in my eyes.Continue ReadingCategory: Motorcycles, TransportTags: Helmet, Helmet Visor, Road Safety, Glare, Sunlight

Adam Williams    Downsizing to a tiny house usually requires some serious compromises. However, the English Garden has a remarkably roomy and stylish interior that feels more like an apartment than a traditional tiny house.Continue ReadingCategory: Tiny Houses, OutdoorsTags: Building and Construction, Tiny...

Abhimanyu Ghoshal    This new piece of camping kit is designed to not only make it way easier to start a fire, but also keep your site free of smoke. That means you can comfortably enjoy the warmth from the flames, and even get a cookout going with minimal effort.Continue ReadingCategory: Gear, OutdoorsTags: Camping,...

C.C. Weiss    Volkswagen knows what it takes to make a great van, whether we’re talking commercial goods-hauler or MPV-cum-weekend camper. Sometimes that means working with the aftermarket to create a versatile van to take on multiple roles with little to no owner conversion necessary, something like the Caddy...

C.C. Weiss    One of the smoothest, most curvaceous hunks of sleep-in fiberglass you’ll see this year, the all-new Morningstar series from startup Awaken RV looks to wake up an age of higher quality American Midwest-built campers. The 23.9-foot (7.3-m) trailer leaves the notoriously shoddy stick-and-tin...

Monica J. White    PocketBook’s new InkPad One pairs a 10.3-inch E Ink Mobius display with stylus support, transforming it from a simple e-reader into a tool for annotating PDFs and taking handwritten notes. It’s priced below most premium e-notes, aiming to make large-screen E Ink more accessible for everyday reading...

Adam Williams    We usually associate Timbercraft Tiny Homes with large luxurious models. However, its Ynez tiny house maintains the firm’s trademark attractive rustic styling, but does so in a much smaller and easier-to-tow package.Continue ReadingCategory: Tiny Houses, OutdoorsTags: Building and Construction,...

Omar Kardoudi    Luna Systems, a Dublin-based startup, has built something that might actually make urban cycling less nerve-wracking: an AI-powered rear-view camera that acts like the collision warning systems already standard in modern cars. The device, called Luna Oculus, watches your back and (metaphorically)...

David Szondy    With a single invisible shot, Raytheon’s Coyote Block 3 UAV zapped swarms of drones out of the sky in a US Army demonstration showing that a reusable drone with electromagnetic weapons is an economical alternative to explosive interceptors.Continue ReadingCategory: Military, TechnologyTags...

Bronwyn Thompson    We have certainly entered the age of AI robots doing the jobs we formerly relied on humans for. Some are yet to do it as well, but the Pongbot Pace S Pro is the best tennis coach I’ve had - even if it doesn’t criticize my poor two-handed backhand grip.Continue ReadingCategory: Consumer Tech,...

Etiido Uko    Look up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s ... a 20,000 cubic-meter power-generating airship, floating 6,560 ft (2,000 meters) above the ground. Introducing the S2000 stratospheric airborne wind energy system (SAWES), the world’s first megawatt-level airborne wind power system, according...

Maryna Holovnova    Camping season is approaching fast for many of us, so it’s a good time to start gearing up. Outdoor adventures require quite a bit of planning, especially when it comes to cooking in the backcountry. Carrying heavy gear can make long hiking days feel even longer, so most people try to cut every...

Adam Williams    With its length of just 7.2 m (23.7 ft), the Tiny Amsterdam is a bite-sized tiny house that suits regular travel or use as a vacation home. Despite its modest size, it has been designed to maximize living space and to keep things simple, meaning it looks surprisingly spacious inside.Continue...

Monica J. White    At massive audiovisual conferences like ISE 2026, extreme projection is everywhere, from the large venues and expansive screens to immersive installations and rental setups built around impressive brightness. In this arena, 30,000-lumen projectors have been the top-end standard for years: immensely...

David Szondy    As US-based aerospace manufacturer Natilus secures US 28 million in additional financing, the company has revealed the latest supersized version of its Horizon blended-wing airliner that upgrades the basic design into a double-decker for cargo.Continue ReadingCategory: Aircraft, TransportTags...

Jay Kakade    When a predator like a lion walks through the grasslands, it makes its presence known by roaring, which can be heard miles away. Since the lion is at the top of the food chain, it doesn’t particularly require privacy. But for animals like deer, making loud sounds isn’t exactly the safest way to...

Michael Franco    In the front lines of combat between scientists and bacteria, there’s a notorious group of bugs that belong to a nefarious organization known as ESKAPE. These bacteria are particularly good at evading the effects of antibiotics, making them a major cause of hard-to-treat infections, often...

C.C. Weiss    Ford launched the all-new Nugget High Roof in icy blue at the 2025 Düsseldorf Caravan Salon last summer, showing it again a few weeks ago at CMT 2026. But while Ford’s high-rising, hard-sided winterproof Nugget is available to order with buyer’s choice of rear toilet or extended cabinetry, it’s not...

Ben Coxworth    In order to stay compact and lightweight, most folding bikes have just a single chainring, limiting their hillclimbing capabilities. The Easy Ride is made to address that issue, by incorporating two shiftable gears into a custom single-ring crankset.Continue ReadingCategory: Bicycles,...

Paul Ridden    Where the sharpness and definition can fade as viewers pull back projectors for super large screenings, AWOL Vision hit CES 2026 with a new model aimed at nipping that in the bud. The Aetherion ultra-short-throw tri-laser entertainment hub promises a 200-inch Dolby Vision, triple-laser cinema for...

Adam Williams    We get a kick out of seeing glass houses, but most of them aren’t exactly practical. However, this recently completed project offers a glass house that actually looks like somewhere it would be really pleasant to spend time in.Continue ReadingCategory: Tiny Houses, OutdoorsTags: Building and...

Paul Ridden    Where other ebike makers might choose Bosch, Brose, TQ or even DJI to meet their mid-drive motor needs, Velotric is cycling its own path. The Discover M commuter features a proprietary 500-W Velo-Core mid-drive system that delivers 100 Nm of torque.Continue ReadingCategory: Bicycles, TransportTags...

Utkarsh Sood    That’s not a Range Rover you’re looking at, that’s the Xpeng GX. It’s the Chinese carmaker’s first full-size crossover, packing some serious tech inside. So while it may look like another Chinese copycat, it’s actually a classic case of offering more than meets the eye.Continue ReadingCategory...

Mike Hanlon    Since a 145,445 Ferrari 330 P2 Junior claimed the World record price for a children’s car at auction in February 2021, the prices of luxury children’s cars have been surging, culminating in Paris last week when RM Sotheby’s sold a Ferrari Testa Rossa J that pushed the record to new heights at 243...