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It takes four to six soldiers to man a single perimeter weapons system. To free up personnel for more important duties, the Army is testing the Tower Hawk System, which uses tower-mounted, remote-controlled weapons for base perimeter security.

NASA has announced the winners of its 3-D Printed Habitat Challenge Design Competition. The contest sought architectural concepts for how 3D printing might be used to create shelters on the Red Planet. The overall winner, Ice House, would be built using the planet's predicted abundant water supply.​

NASA has released the highest resolution images to date of Pluto's moon Charon. The images were taken by the New Horizons spacecraft during its July 14 flyby of the dwarf planet as part of an ongoing data transfer.

Imagine for a moment if we could build a complete wiring diagram of a human brain – to map in detail every one of the hundred trillion or so synapses and roughly hundred billion neurons together with all the tiniest supporting mechanisms. What might that mean, and would it even be possible?

The Chameleon Pen is a single pen capable of producing multiple color tones. Using a special mixing nib filled with toner, the Chameleon Pen is able to produce different shades, from light to dark and back again.

Following in the footsteps of recent desktop CNC machines like Carvey and X-Carve, the Tormach PCNC 440 mill is designed to fit on benchtops and lower the barrier of entry to real CNC.

Lots of people have a home office, but few homes are designed to be literally part office. Dwell Developments' new Live/Work homes in Seattle, however, are exactly that home-office hybrid. They're aimed at improving the lifestyles and environmental footprints of their residents.

Inflatable robots might just be the way to go. If not their whole bodies, then at least their hands. Scientists at Disney Research have made steps in this direction, by creating inflatable graspers that excel at handling delicate objects without breaking them.

As part of a study to find the foraging areas of endangered loggerhead turtles, researchers there designed a bespoke swimsuit that acts as a harness for a "giant nappy" to collect fecal samples.​

With some of entertainment's most iconic vehicles up for auction, such as a "General Lee" 1969 Dodge Charger from the Dukes of Hazzard, it might come as some surprise that a small model of a spaceship outstripped them all. Well, until you consider the devotion of a true Star Wars fan that is.

Chinese architecture and design collective Penda reckons bamboo should be a more widespread construction material than it currently is. To promote this view, the firm recently produced the Rising Canes Pavilion for this year's Beijing Design Week.

One of the biggest limitations of electric buses is range. Now, though, a US company has eked out over 250 miles (402 km) from one of its electric buses. The Proterra Catalyst XR is said to afford the best efficiency rating ever for a 40-ft (12-m) transit bus, at 22 mpg (12.8 l/l00 km) equivalent.