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UK design firm BMC Innovations and road safety charity Brake have created a retractable, one-size-fits-all belt covered in 13 micro LEDs to make its wearers more visible at night – especially on and near the road.

InkCase+ is an electronic ink display that complements your Android smartphone, allowing you to perform common tasks more conveniently while improving battery life.

By-products are common to most industries. Some are harmless, some dangerous and others useless. Others are simply under-utilized. Finland's VTT is using hydrogen generated as a by-product of the sodium chlorate production process in its pilot-scale power plant to produce electricity.

The Pentax XG-1 is an entry-level bridge camera from Ricoh Imaging which boasts impressive reach and speed. It has a mega-zoom 24-1,248-mm equivalent focal length range, and is capable of continuous shooting at a speedy 9 fps.

At this year’s Farnborough Airshow, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc announced the second successful endurance flight of its Predator B Extended Range (ER) Remote Piloted Aircraft, which flew from June 17 to June 18 as part of a program to improve the Predator’s endurance and capabilities.

Along with various systems aimed at keeping drivers awake, we've also recently seen a headset and an earpiece designed to let users know when they're inappropriately drifting off. The Spark takes the form of something you'd have on anyway – a watch.

One of the neat things about smartphones is the fact that when gadgets are designed to be used with them, those devices can make use of the phone's electronics instead of incorporating their own. The Elephant Steady is a new iPhone camera stabilizer, that takes this approach.

For folks who have limited mobility, often all that's needed is a little something to lessen the amount of walking that they have to do. A number of lightweight folding electric wheelchairs have emerged to serve that market. One of the latest, the Zinger, is also reportedly the lightest.

Sena's outstanding Bluetooth headset range has a new flagship - the 20S. Now touting a giant 2-kilometre (1.25 mile) intercom range, the 20S also features voice control, 8-way conferencing and dual Bluetooth chips for audio multitasking.

Pioneer has announced the forthcoming release of a new professional turntable for DJs who prefer to spin and scratch vinyl. The PLX-1000 features a familiar layout, precision pitch control and a high torque direct drive mechanism.

Falling asleep at the wheel is extremely dangerous both for the driver, and for others sharing the road with them. Researchers are working on a solution to this threat. They're doing it with sensors in a car seat that detect the driver's heart rate, and alert the driver if they start dozing off.

A group of students at the University of Leicester in the UK have shown that it is theoretically possible to build a pair of battery-powered trousers which would allow the wearer to walk on walls or even the ceiling, if only for a short time.