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Combining a low price with a modest footprint of just 224 sq ft, the Rasa tiny house comes with a carefully considered interior that sleeps four in comfort – or even up to six at a squeeze.

Designing a tiny house for a couple is one thing, but creating a home on wheels for a family is another challenge entirely. The Soma addresses this with a spacious layout that fits in three bedrooms and a large open living area.

Imagine a sensor that never requires a battery change. Like, ever. You could forget them for decades, and they’ll continue to function just fine. Well, researchers have created just that: a sensor that doesn’t require electricity or batteries.

As if it wasn't already running enough laps around its competition in the EV world, BYD's now building a hypercar for drop-top aficionados. The Denza Z boasts unreal acceleration, classic styling, and room for four. What more could you want?

Flying under the radar of robot hype, Sony AI's Ace has shown off its rapid-speed learning abilities that are seriously remarkable, displaying powerful split-second decision-making while taking on some of the best table tennis players – and winning.

In 2021, Optimus debuted a sleek dual-burner stove called the Gemini that split the difference between backpacking and car camping. Now it's improved the design into a Gemini II that packs over a third more power while still dropping a couple ounces.

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.

Dinosaurs may be long extinct, but 2025 made it clear that they’re anything but settled science. New fossils, reanalyses of famous specimens and increasingly sophisticated tools have helped us learn more about how they lived, moved, fed and evolved.

The Unicamp Sienna Pop Top camper minivan is now rolling out to customers, filling a void of affordable, flexible small pop-up US camper vans. The van still carries 7 or 8 people but is ready to pull over at a moment's notice and camp the night.

Following construction restarting earlier this year, more details have been revealed on what is arguably the world's most ambitious architecture project: the mind-bogglingly tall JEC Tower, which is currently rising in Saudi Arabia.

While there are many uses for soft-bodied robots, the things are still only built in small batches. Scientists are out to change that, with a mass-production-capable soft bot that is 3D-printed in a single piece which walks off of the print bed.

After leaving the competition scrambling with the launch of a powerful ebike drive system in 2024, DJI brand Avinox is set to do it all again with a second-generation flavor designed to beat every rival on power, torque, and weight.

Adding to the growing body of research that proves our microbiome is a powerful ally in fighting disease, scientists have found that an easy-to-get nutrient in our food causes our guts to produce powerful insulin-regulating compounds.

Despite the headlines, there’s limited evidence that using large language models – like Claude and ChatGPT – is rotting the brain. But there’s enough cause for concern.