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60-sec cube camper rises & slides into much more than meets the eye
March 23, 2026
| C.C. Weiss
South African camping trailer specialist Invader is developing the Viator as a roomier, more luxurious alternative to its small fold-out trailers. The Viator packs low and rugged for on/off-road travel and expands at camp with an electric-lift roof.
Mad genius attempts hoverboard build, fails, but lands a floating board
March 22, 2026
| Omar Kardoudi
Popular inventor Colin Furze recently tried recreating the hoverboard from Back to the Future II. He failed, but what he found along the way floats, steers, and might have more to say about urban transport than any hoverboard ever could.
New supercool alloy could take the heat off helium-3
March 23, 2026
| Etiido Uko
The race to achieve the extreme cold that quantum technologies demand may have a frontrunner. Chinese scientists have developed an alloy that almost reaches absolute zero, the coldest possible temperature, without using the scarce isotope, helium-3.
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You could be forgiven for assuming that this pyramidal skyscraper project was a still from a sci-fi TV show, or perhaps another render that's never going to go ahead. But it is indeed real, and it's begun the early stages of construction.
This off-grid cabin-style tiny house is seriously small, with a floorspace of just 215 sq ft. However, despite its modest dimensions, it has been expertly designed to provide everything you need for a short stay.
One of the obvious challenges with tiny houses is that living space is always so limited. The Erica addresses this with a rooftop terrace and an open interior layout. The home also has multiple options available, including adding in solar power.
It took nature millions of years to create intelligent, adaptive species. Researchers at Northwestern University are using AI to evolve robots in minutes. The result is a robot that is agile, highly adaptive, and technically indestructible.
The StabiX 250 is a different kind of RV, an amphibian built for land-sea adventures and turning unpeopled islands into private base camps. Part boat, part all-terrain rover and part camper, the innovative 250 supports adventures like no other.
The US Navy has tapped Anduril's Dive-XL autonomous submarine for its Combat Autonomous Maritime Platform (CAMP) project, which aims at rapidly develop a fleet of underwater motherships capable of deploying smaller autonomous vehicles and torpedoes.
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March 23, 2026 | Abhimanyu GhoshalEDC hardware brand Orioner says this new folding knife is the smallest piece of kit it's ever made: it's about half the length of your pinky. It's got a beautiful titanium frame and can also open bottles in a pinch. -
March 23, 2026 | Simon HeptinstallBMW has turned an April Fool’s joke into reality. The M3 Touring 24H race car, once a social media mock-up, is now heading to the Nürburgring 24 Hours with nearly 600 bhp on tap, blending absurd design with serious motorsport intent. -
March 23, 2026 | Monica J. WhiteThe ViewDock G2 mini PC has launched on Kickstarter, and combines Ryzen performance with a built-in display, wireless charging, and full I/O in one compact unit, aiming to replace docks and declutter modern desktop setups. -
March 23, 2026 | Abhimanyu GhoshalElon Musk has previously promised the fully autonomous Teslas and ultrafast Hyperloop transport – both of which are yet to materialize. For his next trick, he plans to build an enormous chip manufacturing plant to accelerate humanity's future. -
March 22, 2026 | Mike HanlonThe last of Christie’s four auctions of the Jim Irsay Collection has closed, setting 28 new world record prices, most notably the largest memorabilia auction in history (US$94.5 million). It included nine of the top 21 guitars ever sold at auction. -
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March 22, 2026 | Bronwyn ThompsonResembling a grape with thicker and darker skin, the kiwiberry may be one of the least known and most underrated fruits on Earth. It's also old, dating back more than 20 million years. But until recently, we only cared about the plant's aesthetics. -
March 22, 2026 | Shirl LeighStorm chasing is a branch of photography that requires tenacity and perseverance in order to capture lightning strikes. The Bolt Hunter is a lightning camera trigger that may be the solution to this challenging type of photography. -
March 22, 2026 | Adam WilliamsRaising a family in a tiny house typically means you'll be making serious compromises on privacy and space. The Starling tackles these challenges with a flexible layout that squeezes in three sleeping areas and a multipurpose living area.
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Despite its critics and moves toward electrification, the internal combustion engine is not yet dead. Though its design for passenger vehicles may have begun to reach its apex with Mazda’s Skyactiv designs.
The most egg-shaped of all the egg campers, the Barefoot Caravan has been wowing RVers with its shapely fiberglass for over a decade. Prices have risen quickly during that time, but now Barefoot offers the Bothy as a lighter, cheaper entry model.
Fumbling with bindings is nobody's idea of a good time, especially in the cold and the snow. That's why snowboarder Brendan Walker created the Machina MagIC Ride System, which replaces traditional snowboard bindings with magnets.
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?