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Space-saving tiny house sleeps six and packs a terrace up top
November 11, 2026
| Adam Williams
The roof of this tiny house does more than just keep the rain out: it also doubles as a terrace. Inside, the home features a clever space-saving interior layout that sleeps up to six people.
New Atlas: Now available in Dark Mode :)
November 09, 2026
| Loz Blain
Some things just make me unreasonably happy, and I'm stoked to share this one: night owls like myself will appreciate the latest feature we've added to the site: a light/dark mode switch that should make New Atlas much easier on your eyes at night.
330-hp rally raider is set to invade America’s backwoods
November 11, 2026
| Simon Heptinstall
From Austria’s alpine foothills comes the extraordinary four-wheel-drive KTM X-Bow Arrow rally machine – with a 330-hp Audi turbo powertrain bolted into a brutal Dakar-spec chassis.
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Not every tiny house needs to be an exercise in squeezing as much as possible into the smallest footprint. The Cali 9.6 takes a more relaxed approach, with an easy to navigate single-floor layout that opens up to the outside.
Most tiny houses take the form of a box shape, but the two-bedroom Antonia goes for a different approach. It's arranged in an L-shape around a terrace, creating a home designed to embrace indoor/outdoor living.
A lot of tiny houses are designed for portability, but the Skye Park Model takes a different approach. It adopts an extra-wide frame to provide a much more spacious, apartment-like interior.
For all the heavy hitters in Harley-Davidson’s ranks, it is perhaps the Sprint 440 that has the biggest responsibility for carrying the weight of the company’s sales. For if H-D is able to hit home with its new motorcycle, it might well and truly be “back.”
Qantas Airways has entered the Guinness Book of World Records after the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) verified that the airline's Airbus A350-1000ULR passenger liner completed the world's longest commercial flight from Melbourne to Toulouse.
Using some of the most advanced ultralight materials the world has at its disposal, Field Record offers the lightest freestanding tent we've ever seen. Its FR-SCD tent weighs less than half of many ultralight backpacking and mountaineering tents.
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November 11, 2026 | Omar KardoudiSkyways' Skyreach hybrid VTOL takes off like a drone, cruises like a plane and burns jet fuel to stay up for more than 18 hours, delivering parts to offshore rigs and remote sites with with no pilot at the controls. -
November 10, 2026The LAIR S2 modular sling combines customizable internal storage, external MOLLE attachments and four carrying options, giving users the freedom to organize and carry their everyday gear their way-— now available on Kickstarter. -
November 10, 2026 | C.C. WeissThe X8 triple-expander wasn't the only all-new telescopic camper French innovator Beauer introduced this year. In its big lineup reshuffle, it also fully reshaped the future of its six-sleeper caravan. The all-new X6 breaks out of the curvaceous mold the brand has used exclusively for its trailers in the past, becoming a smoothed-corner cuboid built to maximize internal space. And it might just be the nicest overall Beauer design yet. -
November 10, 2026 | Mike McRaeResearchers in China have given the humble comb an electric touch that has promoted regrowth among the remaining follicles in mice using little more than electricity and a dab of genetics. -
November 10, 2026 | C.C. WeissNitecore is moving its fast-growing ultra-slim flashlight family into all-out multitool territory. The UTL19 kicks off the new Utility Tool & Light series, going beyond mere illumination with hard tools that include a slide-out box-slicing blade. -
November 10, 2026 | Ben CoxworthHigh fuel prices may be no more than an inconvenience for most of us, but they can keep farmers in impoverished nations from making a living. A new vehicle has been designed to help, by using solar power to irrigate fields. -
November 10, 2026Microsoft 365 bills you every month for apps like Word and Excel. To own those same apps with one payment instead, try a Microsoft Office Professional 2021 lifetime license for $27.99 (reg. $219.99) with code DEAL20. -
November 10, 2026 | Utkarsh SoodAfter months of teasers and spy shots and what was effectively Royal Enfield’s poorest-kept secret, years of collective prayers have now been answered with the Himalayan 750. It’s here, it’s fresh, and it’s everything that the audience asked for. -
November 10, 2026 | Adam WilliamsIn a market packed with huge tiny houses, the Summer's Night Dream offers a refreshing change: a tiny house that's actually, well, tiny. Despite its modest dimensions, it sleeps four people – or even more at a squeeze. -
November 10, 2026 | Bronwyn ThompsonAs a light sleeper who has been known to have a pillow or black shirt over my head in bed, while listening to a podcast or audiobook to drift off and stay that way, the Sleenova SleepMask has been a surprising game-changer.
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Electric flight seems to be all the rage, but its place in the aviation market has yet to be worked out. We talked to Ralph Müller, CEO of H2Fly, to discuss the state of play of electric aircraft, hybrid hydrogen fuel, and the future of the industry.
A slab of limestone excavated in 1984 from the ancient Coriovallum settlement presented a puzzle for researchers of Roman history. Because of its grooves, the stone piece looked like a board game. More than 40 years on, we may have the rulebook.
Garmin's latest Force electric motor drive might just be its most innovative yet. The Current trolling motor goes totally hands-free with a foot pedal system Garmin calls an industry first. Keep your bait in the water while cruising forward.
It may surprise some to learn that Polaris has a serious research, development, and testing facility. I got a full tour of the place, along with a dedicated test track that I got to use later.
Who could possibly compare to Superman, the Man of Steel? Definitely not a man of plastic! Right? Wrong. Scientists have discovered that unconventionally shaped plastics may rival steel bars as reinforcement materials in construction concrete.
Dragon Tiny Homes' Webster is well-suited to full-time living on wheels and features a spacious interior with three bedrooms, sleeping up to six people. The tiny house is currently up for sale for $85,000.
Deep underground in a dark, sulfuric cave, scientists have made an incredible discovery – a giant communal spider web spanning more than 1,000 square feet, home to an estimated 110,000 spiders that defy nature to coexist in harmony.
The all-new Urbanoid Booba is an impossibly cute, tiny acorn of a trailer designed to provide a stylish, carefree way of instantly escaping the urban grind. The towable clamshell unfolds and inflates into a cozy base camp in a matter of minutes.