Technology

Remember The Wizard (1989)? "I love the Power Glove. It's so bad." Back then, "bad" meant good. Today, "sick," "fire," and "slaps" all mean cool too – so naturally, I used all of them while testing the X1 Promax.

The World Architecture Festival has revealed its shortlist for 2025's best new buildings. Encompassing 460 projects, from the small scale to the supertall, it's a great opportunity to check out amazing architecture from around the globe.

Jack Dorsey, famous for co-founding Twitter (now X), is cooking up a different way to connect people. It's a peer-to-peer mesh network-based messaging app that lets you chat with people over Bluetooth, no internet access required.

Chemical engineers at the University of Sydney are using human-made lightning to produce ammonia – a key ingredient in fertilizers – from thin air and without the need for high temperatures or pressures.

China has just unveiled two turbines so massive it's hard to comprehend. With an outer diameter of 20 ft, 5 in (6.2 m), each turbine weighs 80 tons, is constructed from high-strength martensitic steel, and houses 21 water ladles.

Researchers have developed a way to use high-frequency electromagnetic waves to visualize objects that are hidden from view – such as a tool in a pile of junk or a vase in a cardboard box – with much greater accuracy than before.

Dangbei launched a smart 4K projector last year that was claimed to be the world's first GTV laser projector with official Netflix. That model was later renamed the DBox02, and it's now been joined by a cheaper sibling rocking a Pro moniker.

If, like me, you use a wireless mouse when working on a laptop, your trackpad probably doesn't see much action. Asus suggested double duty as a second screen back in 2018, and now E Ink is doing the same with some help from Intel.

Tidal power is a fantastic source of clean, predictable energy – if you can harness it. SKF says it's making major headway in this field, as it's set a world record for tidal turbine reliability with systems operating continuously for over six years.

If an object that's composed of two types of material is going to fail, the break will usually occur at the interface where the two meet. A new type of light-activated 3D printing resin addresses that problem, by gradually morphing from hard to soft states within a single object.