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If you already own an iPad mini, is it worth upgrading to the new model with Retina Display? Or if you're thinking about buying your first iPad mini, is it worth saving a few bucks on last year's model? Join Gizmag, as we put the two into our magical comparison machine, and see what happens.

BASF is making a push to get out in front of the world and show what its materials can really do. In one of its latest projects, the German company updated a 1953 BMW Isetta "bubble car" with some of its materials and coatings, along with a unique home entertainment system.

The Grip & Shoot is a pistol grip attachment for the iPhone, allowing users to shoot stills and video one-handed, without having their fingers awkwardly splayed to reach the touchscreen controls. We recently had the chance to try one out for ourselves.

UK based-firm TWI has been developing methods for laser tube-cutting for the UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. They have now demonstrated a 5 kW fiber laser projector, configured rather like a rifle, that can be wielded by a single person.

On Thursday, General electric announced that the HF120 jet engine, which boasts a fan aperture is only 18 inches (45.7 cm) across, that it’s co-developing with Honda for the HondaJet, completed its US FAA certification testing.

Home aquaponics kits, which combine fish and plants in a symbiotic relationship, are becoming more and more popular. The latest arrival on the scene is the futuristic-looking Aqualibrium Garden.

Something changed, and backpacks started evolving. Now it's not at all uncommon to find a backpack that can charge the electronic devices within. The Energi+ Backpack from TYLT is one such model. It's not the first backpack equipped with a battery, but is it the best?

The US Army Rapid Equipping Force (REF), with the help of the crowdsourcing gurus at Local Motors, has launched ArmyCoCreate.com, a website designed to let soldiers, designers and engineers collaborate on identifying soldier requirements and designing prototypes to address them.

The inventor of the Scarpar Powerboard, Dan Baldwin, has now developed another prototype all-terrain board called the Ungoverned that is designed to tackle everything from rocks to snow.

The Large Underground Xenon experiment, buried nearly a mile beneath South Dakota, has completed 85 days of seeking dark matter particles. The results are consistent with a null result, and essentially rule out the 8.6 GeV dark matter candidate noted in the data of other experiments.

Rhino Shield is reportedly five times more impact-resistant than unprotected Gorilla Glass 2. Its makers recently sent me a testing kit, so I could see first-hand just how tough it is – without endangering my smartphone in the process. Here's how things turned out ...

Gizmag recently took the opportunity to tour the Hangar-7 Museum in Red Bull's hometown of Salzburg, Austria. Step inside for a virtual tour of intriguing architecture and high-performance machinery.