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In a perfect world, everything you try to clamp in a vise would have straight sides. The world isn't perfect, though, which is where the Tivise comes in. It's a fractal vise with jaws that adapt to the unique shape of whatever's placed inside it.

The cardboard business card has been with us just 200 years, a period of unprecedented change in society and scientific knowledge. This is the second part of a series in which we examine history from a different angle.

What if the water in your coffee pot literally just came out of thin air and you never had to fill it again? That's what the Kara Pod does. True story.

There has always been a marketplace for the personal cards of important people, but the humble ceremonial personal card (aka business card, visiting card, calling card, Carte de Visite) has never received much attention at auction, and has often been used as part of a significant lot to highlight provenance and authenticity.

Recent prices paid for the business cards of Steve Jobs, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos raise some fascinating questions about the long-term value of all business cards that have sold before... so what will an Albert Einstein business card fetch at auction?

A team of researchers at Rice University has developed a haptic feedback vest and camera system for a blind dog known as Kunde. The vest helps guide the dog through daily obstacles and the hope is that it will soon do the same for other pups.

Here's a world record I didn't know needed breaking. Highlining legend Julien Roux has walked on a tightrope drawn between two hot air balloons nearly 14,000 feet up in the air – surpassing the previous best by half a mile in altitude.

We recently told you about the T-Apex, a mobile tennis-ball-serving robot that tracks and assesses players' returns. Well, the Acemate bot goes a step further, by actually rallying back and forth with players to really hone their skills.

Sports-conditioning robotics makers T-Apex has launched what could be quite literally a game changer for tennis players of any level, with its AI-powered robot coach that glides around the court and responds to your movement in real time.

Long hair can be a giant pain when it comes to robot vacuums, winding around the main and side brushes until things grind to a halt. Narwal's affordable Freo Pro robovac and mop comprehensively solves this problem with a pair of smart innovations.