Technology, Innovation & Outdoor News

The newest inflatable rooftop tents are so light and packable, they travel in the car instead of on it. The Portal Nomis One is the latest, using a split-body design to carry in the trunk before inflating and hoisting onto the roof in 10 minutes.

At $17,999, Harley has packaged the attitude of a custom bobber with the proven Softail platform on the Deadwood, creating one of the more compelling factory-built cruisers in its lineup. Love or hate Harley, this will certainly get people talking!

Before "overlanding" entered the broad American lexicon, Global Expedition Vehicles was building some of the most fearsome overland rigs the US had seen. The latest truck wearing the badge, the GXV Wild evolves overland living to a higher standard.

The deadliest animal to ever exist isn’t an apex predator like sharks or lions. Neither is it rats that caused three great plagues. It’s the tiny 5-mm Anopheles mosquito. One company is proposing fighting them with tiny air-to-air killer drones.

Chip Motors, a new EV startup out of Miami, is betting that more people will choose a right-sized family vehicle for everyday trips in and around their neighborhoods. That includes trips without anyone in the car.

Range Rover has revealed the first glimpse of its new GT, the most car-like model in the brand's history. The sleek electric crossover previews the next generation of Range Rover design, with a focus on long-distance luxury and refinement.

A sustainable, plant-based wound dressing that delivers antibiotics before infection spreads could offer a greener and more efficient alternative to conventional wound care.

According to new research from Rutgers University, being a 'girl dad' might just make Bandit the ideal partner. It turns out that having daughters can transform fathers in ways that strengthen their romantic relationships.

For the first time, a European Southern Observatory (ESO) study has quantified the threat to astronomy posed by a large number of highly reflective satellites planned to launch in the coming years.

Blue Zone residents around the globe have become famous for having remarkable life expectancies, on average. Not only that, they live healthier for longer. Could their personalities be influencing health markers in these super-agers?

Europe's most active volcano, Mount Etna, has always been a geological puzzle. The Sicilian volcano has erupted several times a year, and glassy peaks of over 3,000 meters (10,000 feet) have fascinated scientists for decades.

It sounds like harmless fun, letting users “buy” food, clothes or other products with no real-world cost, since most of these apps are free. But even when an app or website costs you nothing, they help advertisers better target you in real life.

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.

Ultra-deep tech startup Nirvanic put on a fairly humble-looking robotics demo at Jeff Bezos's private MARS 2025 conference – but it may go down as a landmark moment both in AI robotics, and in our understanding of consciousness itself.

I'm a sucker for a good "reinventing the wheel" story, and David Henson's 'SurfacePlan' concept is an odd a take on one of humanity's greatest inventions as we've seen in a long time. It's designed to replace engines and drivetrains altogether.

Precision milling used to mean giant, pricey shop machines out of reach for most makers. You could design the "next big thing," but could you actually build it? Now you can.

Bajaj Auto, the world's third largest motorcycle manufacturer, has gone from a partner to KTM to taking over the Austrian brand altogether. That's thanks to a $905-million shot in the arm from the Indian two-wheeler giant at the eleventh hour.

The Tesla Cybertruck has done what very few modern-day vehicles have been able to achieve – become one of the most recognizable cars on the road. However, Tesla has a major issue on its hands: Its angular electric pickup isn't selling in the numbers it had hoped for.

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.

A new video takes you inside Dyson's impressive vertical farming operation, which is home to 1,225,000 strawberry plants and shows you how the company is applying its manufacturing knowledge to producing homegrown food for British consumers.