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Large-scale artworks are certainly in vogue at the moment. Recently we've seen giant puppets walking the streets of Liverpool and a giant solar-harvesting duck in Copenhagen. For his part, designer Rob Ley has created a huge car-park façade that changes color as the viewer moves around it.

It's a spy movie cliché. The hero takes a bobby pin from the heroine's hair, and uses it to pick the lock on their handcuffs. Well, if she were wearing the new Leatherdos multitool hair clip, he'd also be able to do things like cutting through ropes, removing screws and unlocking a grocery cart.

Earlier this month, we first heard about a radar system for cyclists, known as the Backtracker. Although it's not yet commercially available, we recently had the chance to try out a pre-production review unit. It definitely shows promise, but could perhaps use one tweak.

Following LG and Samsung both unveiling their contenders for the world's largest curved Ultra HD TV at CES, competition between the two Korean electronics giants continues. After Samsung announced last week that it was starting to take pre-orders for its model, LG has quickly followed suit.

Porsche is rolling out a revamped Cayenne lineup for the 2015 model year. The most radical change to the new Cayenne line is the Cayenne S E-Hybrid, a quick, powerful gas-electric option with all-electric driving capabilities.

The Silent Power PC ditches noisy electric fans in favor of an open-air metal foam heatsink with an enormous surface area that passively cools the PC through the microcirculation of air through the foam.

Many people say they can’t go vegan because of their addiction to dairy. But that excuse could soon be past its sell-by date if a team of biohackers in California succeeds in scaling up production of a cheese that contains no animal by-products.

Researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California Berkeley have measured what is believed to be the smallest force yet recorded – 42 yoctonewtons, or a septillionth of a newton.

With corporate showmanship and architectural one-upmanship being what they are, newly-built company headquarters are often lavish affairs. The Edge in Amsterdam is no different. Not only is it good looking sustainably-designed, but its lighting does more than just brighten up a room.

At the EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Light Sport Aircraft (LSA) manufacturer ICON Aircraft debuted its first production A5 amphibious plane for the general public. Built in Tehachapi, California, a second is now under construction for structural testing later this year.

Do you ever look at all of those Windows 2-in-1s and wish you could have one that runs Apple software? Well, the creative folks at Modbook are at it again, this time taking the guts of the newest Retina MacBook Pro and turning it into something akin to a giant OS X-running Surface on steroids.

The 1190RX is the first mass-production sportsbike out of the new Erik Buell Racing factory in Wisconsin, a 185-horsepower, torque-stompin', slightly quirky racer with its eyes firmly focused on World Superbike contention. But does that equate to a good road bike?