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Lockheed Martin is raising the bar on its 300-kW laser weapon system, announcing it is scaling it up to 500 kW under a new contract from the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering (OUSD (R&E)). Continue Reading Category: Military , Technology Tags: Lockheed Martin , Laser weapon

Combining brain implants, AI, and electrical stimulation, a team of researchers, engineers and surgeons has developed a novel ‘double neural bypass’ technology that has restored arm movement and sensation to a quadriplegic man. It’s hoped the technology will help others affected by impaired movement or paralysis. Continue Reading Category: Medical , Science Tags: Brain-computer interface , Paralysis , Artificial Intelligence , Feinstein Institute for Medical Research

Induction cooktops have become the darling of greener RVing, cutting the hassle and emissions involved with traditional gas stoves and better complementing all-electric camper van designs. Given their power draw, however, they're not portable enough for use away from a vehicular battery or grid-based electrical socket. Indiana startup Newr is looking to go where others haven't, developing a lithium-powered self-contained induction cooker for light vehicle camping, tiny home living, boating, tailgating and more. Continue Reading Category: Outdoors , Lifestyle Tags: Outdoors , Camping , Cooking , Stoves , tailgating

Sometimes it seems that as soon as an anti-counterfeiting process is created, someone finds a way of circumventing it. A new system could be particularly hard to foil, however, as it utilizes tiny diamonds. Continue Reading Category: Science Tags: University of Hong Kong , Counterfeiting , Diamonds

People camping in tents are expected to "rough it" a bit, but … if they have a battery-powered heating and air conditioning system right beside them, why not use it? That's the thinking behind Campstream One, which mooches off the user's electric vehicle. Continue Reading Category: Outdoors , Lifestyle Tags: Tent , Tesla Motors , Rivian , Camping , Heating , Cooling , Kickstarter

Although cargo ebikes are often referred to as replacements for cars, they usually can't match an automobile's urban cruising speed, among other things. The VM45 four-wheeled velomobile comes very close however, with a top electric-assist speed of 45 km/h (28 mph). Continue Reading Category: Urban Transport , Transport Tags: Velomobile , Pedal-assisted

China's Bigme, which was recently the first to launch with E Ink's Gallery 3 color ePaper technology, has announced a follow up to its S6 Color enote that comes with a Kaleido 3 display and a snappy 12-fps refresh rate. Continue Reading Category: Mobile Technology , Technology Tags: E Ink , E-book , E-Paper , E-reader , Color

Following the Avenir, another major skyscraper project has received a thumbs-up for construction in Manhattan, New York City. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), the eye-catching tower will be the only residential skyscraper to be built on the World Trade Center site. Continue Reading Category: Architecture , Lifestyle Tags: Building and Construction , Skyscrapers , Residential towers , kpf , New York

A couple of weeks ago, German cargo bike maker Hase Bikes revealed a telescoping cargo bike mixed with a gravel bike called the Gravit Dust. Now an ebike version built for hauling gear on the daily commute has surfaced. Continue Reading Category: Bicycles , Transport Tags: Hase Bikes , ebikes , cargo bike , City

Henning Larsen Architects has been commissioned to create a new university in the Faroe Islands. Described as one of the harshest campus locations in the world, the timber building is inspired by traditional local construction techniques and will feature a carefully designed overall form that the firm says will shelter students from the extreme weather, enabling them to enjoy the outdoors in the immediate vicinity for 150 days more than usual. Continue Reading Category: Architecture , Lifestyle Tags: Henning Larsen , Building and Construction , sustainable design , cross-laminated timber

For more than 10 years, Loog Guitars has been making learning to play a guitar a less daunting task for youngsters. Now the company has teamed up with Fender for a pint-sized Telecaster and Stratocaster – each rocking three strings, a single pickup and a short skinny neck. Continue Reading Category: Music , Technology Tags: Fender , Fender Stratocaster , Fender Telecaster , Learning , Guitar , Education

Plastic is one of the most useful materials in our modern world, but unfortunately it’s also one of the worst in a sustainability sense. Now, scientists at Berkeley Lab have developed a way to engineer bacteria to produce raw materials that can be made into plastics that are completely recyclable. Continue Reading Category: Materials , Science Tags: Plastic , Plastic waste , Recycled , Recyclable , Sustainable , Sustainability , Bacteria , new material , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Nireeka has gone back to a drivetrain-friendly hub motor on its dual-suspension carbon-frame Revenant ebike – and it's also one of the very first bikes on the market with ABS braking. We've been riding one for months, and it's an impressive machine. Continue Reading Category: Bicycles , Transport Tags: ebikes , Nireeka , Reviews

One of the benefits of using Apple technology is that it, generally, offers user-friendly synchronicity across devices. However, one of the downsides is the lack of synchronicity when it comes to charging those devices. Continue Reading Category: Technology Tags: Apple , Apple Watch , iPad , MacBook , Battery Charger , Kickstarter

In what sounds like the opening scenes of a disaster movie, scientists recently revived worms frozen in the permafrost since the Ice Age. Now, these worms have been attributed to a new species, and seem to have passed down their incredible hibernation genes to modern relatives. Continue Reading Category: Biology , Science Tags: Max Planck Institute , Microbes , Micro-organisms , Life , Genetics , Species

In an historic experiment, ESA has made a controlled reentry of its Atmospheric Dynamics Mission-Aeolus (ADM-Aeolus) satellite in a maneuver designed to reduce the risk of such end-of-life events creating space debris or fragments reaching the ground. Continue Reading Category: Space , Science Tags: Satellite , Reentry , ESA

Researchers have injected mice with neonatal stem cells taken from heart tissue discarded after surgery and found that the treatment reduced bowel inflammation and promoted healing, offering a new and alternative treatment to chronic inflammatory conditions like Crohn’s disease. Continue Reading Category: Medical , Science Tags: Stem Cells , Inflammatory , Disease

The first crewed mission to Mars may get there and back a bit faster and safer if a contract DARPA has awarded to Lockheed Martin bears fruit. The contract is to rapidly advance and fabricate a nuclear thermal rocket engine scheduled to fly by 2027 for cislunar and deep space missions. Continue Reading Category: Space , Science Tags: DARPA , Lockheed Martin , Nuclear , Rocket

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has scored another first, detecting evidence of water in a planet-forming disc circling another star where at least two terrestrial-class proto-planets seem to be forming. Continue Reading Category: Space , Science Tags: ESA , Exoplanet , Astrophysics , Water

This fourth generation of the Hyundai Santa Fe entered the market in 2019 and was refreshed with some styling updates in 2021. Now, in 2023, it’s in its final year as a model before the new fifth-generation comes for 2024. And it’s very likable. Its replacement? Well, we’ll see. Continue Reading Category: Automotive , Transport Tags: Hyundai , SUV , Hybrid , Plug-in Hybrid , Reviews

After talking with a focus group of grizzled, sun-battered farmers, ranchers and big-game hunters, Polaris locked itself deep in the factory and designed a Ranger meant for doing the hardest work, day after day, with less downtime. The all-new Ranger XD 1500 bulks up on steel construction to meet the demands of its most demanding customers, delivering more power, more capability and more durability than any Ranger out there. Continue Reading Category: Outdoors , Lifestyle Tags: Polaris , utv , Side-by-side , Off-road

To cap or not to cap – it's a question that virtually every pickup truck owner has asked at some point, and there's no right answer. A cap over the bed offers locked, weatherproof security you simply can't get with an open bed. But it limits what you can haul, preventing certain tall and oversized items from fitting like they would in an open bed. South Korean company Gaia helps solve the dilemma by putting a pop-up wedge roof on its cap, allowing users to create extra room for oversized cargo while still enjoying all the other benefits of a hard cap. It could prove the best of both worlds. Continue Reading Category: Automotive , Transport Tags: Truck , Pickup , Camping , Outdoors

Mosquitos are most active at night, which is when campers need light and are most likely to be charging gadgets. The Evo Repel was designed with these facts in mind, as it combines an electric mosquito repeller, flashlight and power bank in one device. Continue Reading Category: Outdoors , Lifestyle Tags: Kickstarter , Flashlights , Battery , Mosquito , Camping

In order to optimize traffic flow through city streets, municipalities often install car-counting cameras or other sensors at a few set locations. A new study, however, suggests that using existing bus-mounted cameras may be a better way to go. Continue Reading Category: Urban Transport , Transport Tags: Ohio State University , Traffic , Buses , Artificial Intelligence

It's just not camping without the campfire, but seasonal burning restrictions can stamp out any hopes of building a fire outside, or even inside, an official campground. Gas fire pits are a good alternative, often allowed under wood-fire bans, but they tend to be large and cumbersome. The new Firestorm from startup Live Outdoor is the most portable gas fire pit we've seen, able to collapse into a series of components for easy packing before building up into a towering (but controlled) inferno in a matter of minutes. Continue Reading Category: Outdoors , Lifestyle Tags: Outdoors , Camping , Fire , Collapsible

By decoding a genetic process responsible for asexual reproduction, researchers induced virgin births for the first time in a normally sexual fruit fly species. It was then discovered that the remarkable trait was passed down to all of the flies' daughters. The finding could help scientists find new ways to protect crops from insect pests that are increasingly able to reproduce without mates. Continue Reading Category: Biology , Science Tags: Fruit Flies , Reproduction , University of Cambridge , Genetics , Genetic engineering

Although HEPA filters and ultraviolet lighting systems are effective at neutralizing bacteria in hospitals, homes and other settings, they do have their drawbacks. A new light-activated material known as LumaFlo, however, is claimed to have them both beat. Continue Reading Category: Health & Wellbeing , Lifestyle Tags: Antibacterial , Carbon , Filters

To mark what would have been the 100th birthday of the Father of Loud, Marshall has introduced the Studio JTM series, an amp head with matching speaker cabinets plus a combo amp – all looking like they might have stepped straight out of 1960s. Continue Reading Category: Music , Technology Tags: Marshall Amps , Retro , Vintage , Amplifiers , Guitar

British firm Giles Miller Studio recently completed its first residential project. Named Woven, the remarkable home is wrapped in an intricate screen made up of a recycled thermoplastic polymer and will become almost totally covered in greenery over time. Continue Reading Category: Architecture , Lifestyle Tags: Building and Construction , sustainable design , House , Home , cross-laminated timber

With the aim of allowing astronauts to live off the land as much as possible when they return to the Moon, NASA has awarded Blue Origin a US$35-million Tipping Point contract to develop the company's Blue Alchemist process to make solar cells out of lunar soil. Continue Reading Category: Space , Science Tags: NASA , Moon , Blue Origin , Solar Cell

In mid-July, Elon Musk announced on the service formerly known as Twitter the completion of the first production Cybertruck. With a backlog of reservation holders, there's bound to be some pent-up demand for accessories and upgrades, something the existing aftermarket can't meet because of the truck's "unique" dimensions. We've already seen a number of compatible accessories and campers, but they've all existed as renderings yet to meet reality. Space Campers changes that by presenting a prototype Wedge camper that levels out the Cybertruck's awkward bed, airs into overnight form, and uses modular components to create a versatile base camp in a small footprint. Continue Reading Category: Outdoors , Lifestyle Tags: Pickup , RV , Camping , Outdoors , Tesla , Electric truck , Truck , electric-camper

As is the case with any other electrical device, the less energy that a robot uses to perform its assigned duties, the better. A new soft robotic gripper was created with this fact in mind, as it grasps and releases objects without using any electricity at all. Continue Reading Category: Robotics , Technology Tags: UC San Diego , Soft Robotics , Compressed Air

Three years ago we told you about the Chasing F1 Fish Finder Drone, which is basically a little remote-control boat with a lowerable underwater video camera. Well, it now has a more capable younger sibling, in the form of the F1 Pro. Continue Reading Category: Drones , Technology Tags: Indiegogo , Underwater drones , Fishing

Traditionally, doctors have linked fat around the waist to an increased risk of type 2 diabetes. New research says that our waist size is only part of the equation though, and that some of the same genes that make us store belly fat may also protect us from the disease. Continue Reading Category: Lifestyle Tags: Obesity , Diabetes , University of Virginia , Genetics

While a bunch of manufacturers focus on the larger end of electric trucking, some startups are aiming to fill a void at the micro end. Last month we introduced the Telo Truck, an electric pickup about the size of a Mini Cooper SE. Now Ayro is about to take its upcoming Vanish low-speed utility truck on a promotional road trip across Texas. Continue Reading Category: Automotive , Transport Tags: Electric Vehicles , Electric truck , Utility vehicles , Compact

Plans have been revealed for a remarkable new skyscraper development in Manhattan, New York City. Named Avenir, the project will consist of two matching towers, which will be connected by a skybridge, allowing members of the public to move from one to another at a height of 630 ft (192 m) above the city streets. Continue Reading Category: Architecture , Lifestyle Tags: Building and Construction , New York , Skyscrapers

Last month, Anker Innovations launched a pre-order campaign for what was billed as the first truly outdoor projector. Now the Nebula Mars 3 1080p entertainment hub, portable power bank and campsite light source has gone up for sale. Continue Reading Category: Outdoors , Lifestyle Tags: Projectors , HD , Portable

A rare and large Pteranodon skeleton sold at a Sotheby's auction in New York this evening for $3,932,000, adding further weight to the influence of the Jurassic Park franchise and moving into the top five most valuable fossils of all-time: behind only Tyrannosaurus Rex, Velociraptor, Triceratops and Gorgosaurus. Continue Reading Category: Collectibles , Lifestyle Tags: Auction , Sotheby's , Fossils , Pteranodon

Back in 2019, Chinese manufacturer Youcan Robotics brought us the prosumer-oriented BW Space Pro underwater drone. Well, the company is back with its much higher-spec'd OceanEye model, which is aimed squarely at industrial use. Continue Reading Category: Drones , Technology Tags: Underwater drones , Remote Control

A few years ago, Dutch startup Ventje made an immediate name for itself in the world of Volkswagen camper vans with a unique floor plan quite unlike the average. In fact, it didn't take long for the ultra-flexible transforming van to bring home a Red Dot Design Award. Now, Ventje's bringing its smart, innovative layout to the electric side of the camper van market. It fills out Volkswagen's ID. Buzz with a center lounge-sleeper floor plan complete with indoor/outdoor rear kitchen and integrated outdoor dining set. It's called the eVentje, and it's an even cuter, greener take on tiny RVing. Continue Reading Category: Outdoors , Lifestyle Tags: Volkswagen , mini-campervan , Campervan , electric-camper , RV , Camping

Inspections of tall metal structures or machines can be difficult for people to perform up-close and in person, and while aerial drones may help, their limited battery life is a problem. That's where the magnetic-footed Magnecko robot is intended to come in. Continue Reading Category: Robotics , Technology Tags: ETH Zurich , Biomimicry , Magnetic , Quadruped , Climbing

According to a study conducted last year, just four alcoholic drinks per week can contribute to cognitive decline. Now, based on tests on mice, researchers may have found a way to fight booze's brain-hampering effects with the potent red ginseng root. Continue Reading Category: Medical , Science Tags: Alcohol , Brain , Herbs , Memory