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​If you’re the kind of person who can’t help tapping, slapping and rapping on things as you dance around the kitchen, well now there’s an app for that. Three, actually. And a device that reads your perfunctory percussion and transmits the signal into your phone for you to play games with.

Hyperloop One, the proposed faster-than-airplane transport system, has presented a study highlighting the economic feasibility and benefits of creating a route between the Finnish capital, Helsinki, and the Swedish capital, Stockholm.

Bottpower's XR1R is an American-style flat tracker from Spain built from an American legend (Erik Buell's XB12) that was built from another American Legend (Harley-Davidson's Sportster 1200). With more than 150 hp and less than 150 kg to shift, it should be a mad little racetrack carver.

By now, we're familiar with the benefits of Ford's EcoBoost downsizing – more power, more torque and less weight. The latest EcoBoost V6 to make its way into the F-150 is more efficient and torquier than V8s almost twice the size.

Bombardier has handed the first of its new CS100 aircraft over to Swiss International Airlines. The narrow-body, twin-engine, medium-range jet airliner is designed to hold between 100 and 150 passengers and is due to enter service later this week.

​Solar Impulse 2 completed the penultimate leg of its solar-powered global circumnavigation today, touching down at Cairo International Airport at 10:13 pm PDT (5:14 GMT). With pilot André Borschberg at the controls, the single-seater aircraft landed after leaving Seville, Spain two days ago.

A common complaint with tiny houses is that they don't usually contain a proper bedroom. The Indigo tiny house offers both a loft bedroom and a full-size ground floor bedroom that can double up as a home office – however to do so it makes significant sacrifices in living space.

​An international team of astronomers has succeeded in capturing the most comprehensive infrared view of the famous Orion Nebula to date, highlighting a surprising amount of failed stars and small planetary bodies.

Despite the death of its founder, Zaha Hadid Architects is set to stay in business for a while longer yet –​ as confirmed by the announcement of a new skyscraper for Qatar's first sustainable city, Lusail. The as-yet unnamed tower is due for completion in 2020.​

Chinese newcomer OnePlus is back with another attempt to marry top-level specs with a knock-down price, and it's come up with the company's best handset by far. It's powerful, it's sleek, and it should have the bigger manufacturers looking over their shoulders.

Mansory has already worked over the G63 six-wheeler, and now it's turned its attention to the G500 4×4², adding horsepower and loads of carbon fiber.

A light plunger. It sort of sounds like something from a sci-fi novel, doesn't it? In fact, it's a new product just launched on Kickstarter that looks like it combines the concept of a French coffee press with a table lamp, and lets users plunge the light to turn it on or off.