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At this week's Beijing Motor Show, Audi transformed its TT into an off-road-ready, AWD crossover based closely on the Allroad Shooting Brake concept. Audi hasn't announced any plans for a production car based on the TT offroad concept, but it's certainly hinting at the possibility.

Building Trust International has announced the winners of its 2014 Moved To Care competition. The competition sought design solutions for providing healthcare to rural and isolated areas in Asia. The winning designs are a medical clinic on wheels and a clinic built from a retired shipping container.

Lytro has revealed its second-generation light field camera, the Illum. With a larger 40-megaray sensor, and a 30-250-mm equivalent zoom lens with a constant F2 aperture, the new shooter is a much more serious affair than its predecessor.

Hitachi has announced that it’s installing the world's fastest ultra-high-speed elevators in the Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre skyscraper in Guangzhou, China. Making up two out of a total of 95 elevators in the building, the new lifts can reach record-breaking speeds of 1,200 m/min.

It's generally just accepted that text embedded in images on the Web is inaccessible. Because images are rendered as a single layer, that's just the way it is ... or was, because a new extension for Google Chrome called Project Naptha now allows users to highlight and copy text from within images.

A complex aeronautical sculpture by Richard Wilson, described by engineers as "a hundred-thousand-piece jigsaw," was unveiled as part of the newly refurbished Heathrow Terminal 2 on April 23. The 78-meter-long (256-foot) sculpture simulates the flight path of a small stunt plane.

Have you ever stumbled across a monster riff while noodling away, only to find that by the time you've broken out your digital recording gear, you can't remember a note? The Memory Cable from Gibson Brands gets around such problems by merging a premium instrument cable with a digital audio recorder.

The peacock mantis shrimp may look like a colorful aquarium dweller with its brightly decorated shell, but its claws have the punch of a .22 bullet, which a team of researchers have used to develop a new carbon composite that imitates the claw’s structure to form a lightweight, tough material.

Thomas Heatherwick has been commissioned to design a new public park in Abu Dhabi. The Al Fayah park will cover 125,000 sq m and has been described by the architect as, "part architecture, part landscape, part cultural destination." Its design is a response to the desert landscape.

Last week, Lamborghini’s Huracán LP 610-4 made its North American debut at a private event as part of the New York International Auto Show, and Gizmag was there. Head of Design, Filippo Perini was on hand to provide insight on using the Fibonacci sequence and biomimicry as key design drivers.

The Design Museum in London, UK, has announced the winners of its 2014 Designs of the Year Awards. The designs are judged by a high-profile panel and are presented in seven design categories. One category winner will be go on to be named the overall winner.

This week, Google announced a new Street View feature. If there's a clock in the upper left-hand corner of an image, it means you can see what that scene looked like up to seven years ago.