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BMW Group DesignworksUSA has designed a solar carport to house its new i3 and forthcoming i8 electric vehicles. BMW is revealing the one-car solar garage concept as part of the official media launch of the i8 in Los Angeles.

BMW's luxury high-performance saloon, the M5, celebrates its 30th birthday this year. In honor of this, it a special "30 years of the M5" edition of the car as been created. Not only is it the most powerful M5 ever produced, but it is the most powerful production car in the history of BMW.

There are a burgeoning number of ways to receive content streamed from the internet to your living room TV, and no single provider is proving significantly dominant. One service that is certainly popular, though, is Roku. Gizmag takes a look at the recently-launched Roku Streaming Stick.

Watson, IBM's natural language-understanding supercomputer, now comes with an impressive new feature. When asked to discuss any topic, it can autonomously scan its knowledge database for relevant content, "understand" the data, and argue both for and against that topic.

The Vidameter is a feature-packed smartband currently looking for funding on Indiegogo. While it may look like just another wearable, it actually has a much bigger mandate in mind, aiming to take a hand in personal safety and general well-being, as well as fitness.

If thieves really want to get past the lock on something, they can. The trick is to simply not make it worth their while, by adding extra hassles. The Stemlock is just such a hassle. It internally disconnects a bike's handlebar stem from its fork, making it impossible for a thief to steer.

So, you already own little remote-control cars, planes, boats and submarines ... what else could there be? Well, how about something that runs? That's just what the OutRunner robot does.

Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) in California have produced a living bacterium that has a strand of artificial DNA made with chemical “letters” not found in nature or any other organism.

Yamaha has revised its 2013 annual report to signal that it's getting set to launch its first electric motorcycles "in the near future," potentially making this the first major manufacturer to get into the EV market in a serious way. So let's examine Yamaha's two electric concepts from Tokyo.

RR Auctions is putting hundreds of items up for bid as part of an auction of air and space memorabilia ranging from the Wright brothers to the present day. Amongst a number of standout items is the joystick from the Apollo 15 Lunar Module, which goes on the block with a starting bid of US$10,000.

In a move which indicates its technological dominance of F1 this year has caught it by surprise, Mercedes-Benz has renamed its Formula One car mid-season, announcing the Silver Arrow will now carry the same hybrid branding as its road cars.

The Leica T is a true supermodel of a camera – a masterpiece of design, engineering and machining perfection. But Leica is adamant that it doesn't make sculptures, and it wants the T judged on its performance. So let's see if results stand up to the astronomic price tag.