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After finding success with e-readers and tablets, Amazon is now digging its claws into smartphones. Are the Fire Phone's unique features enough to make it worth a look next to today's most popular handsets? Let's compare its features and specs to those of the iPhone 5s.

While grid-fed portable electronics chargers are ample for use around town, things get more complicated when you venture off the grid. A new backpack cuts reliance on external power sources, harvesting energy from something much more reliably available … you.

US-based GPS specialists Garmin has announced a navigation application for smartphones. In an attempt to recapture ground lost to Google and Apple Maps, Viago features the basics of a typical navigation app but can also be customized through a number of advanced in-app purchases.

Amazon has announced its first foray into the competitive smartphone space in the form of the Fire Phone. The device is a largely high-end affair, packing some interesting features, chief among which is its Dynamic Perspective display tech and product scanning Firefly app.

Among the cars at last week's London Motorexpo were some curious looking bikes. Striking in design, the B4 Bikes e-cruizer was drawing nearly as much attention as the nearby McLaren. The e-cruizer is a new take of the electric bike from the Netherlands and Gizmag took one for a spin.

Not long after it revealed the Q3 camping tent, Audi has presented another car-inspired mobile living space. Developed by industrial designer Konstantin Grcic, the TT Pavilion blends parts and design cues from the Audi TT into a futuristic field shelter.

The Twelve24 ClockONE is the world's first E-Ink wall clock, offering some impressive advantages over more traditional clocks. It's big, beautiful, light, and runs for a full year on a single button battery.

This week, Christie’s put one of the very first integrated circuits up for auction. Designed and constructed in 1958 by Texas Instruments, it's one of the three earliest "chips" ever made and went on the block with an estimated value of up to US$2 million.

Located on the corner of a small alley in Torigoe, Tokyo, one can find two shipping containers that appear to have been carelessly stacked on top of one another. On closer inspection, however, a large rear door opens to reveal a modern office and gallery space that stretches over two levels.

Bananas that have been genetically modified to produce pro-vitamin A could save many lives in East Africa. Human nutritional trials are planned to begin soon in the US.

Renault is king of the hot hatches once again, after its Megane R.S. 275 Trophy-R shaved four seconds from the Nürburgring lap record for two wheel-drive production vehicles. Renault achieved its record lap time of 7:54.36 by putting the R.S. on a strict diet, and bumping up its power output.

Bentley has released a focused version of its Continental GT, with the new limited edition GT3-R. With a 100 kg weight saving over the standard car GT V8, the GT3-R is Bentley's take on what a road-going gentleman's racer should be.