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Leave your skis or snowboard unattended outside the lodge; skip lunch/après ski drinks; or obsessively look out the window. The AlpineTec AlpineHawk provides a fourth option: an electronic anti-theft system that sounds an alarm and sends you a smartphone alert if someone messes with your skis.

Instead of having to constantly look down at a smartphone screen's mapping app to find your way around unfamiliar streets, Yubi Navi looks to simplify on-foot navigation, replacing on-screen prompts with tactile cues.

Lots of us make sacrifices for the environment, but few of us would consider supporting the cause by moving into a dumpster. Dr. Jeff Wilson of Huston-Tillotson University, however, is doing just that.

In a perfect world, cigarette waste simply wouldn't exist. Given that it does, though, scientists have explored a number of methods of repurposing it. Now, researchers have shown that cigarette ash can be used as a low-cost means of filtering arsenic from water supplies.

Remember the baby stroller/scooter hybrid known as the Roller Buggy? Its Austrian creator is now part of the team behind another unique mode of human-powered transportation. This one's called the Vello bike, and it features a unique folding mechanism along with some other clever innovations.

Researchers are laying claim to having observed piezoelectricity in an atomically thin material for the first time. The effect was demonstrated in the world's thinnest electric generator made from a two-dimensional MoS2 material.

The iPad Air and iPad mini 2 are a tough act to follow, but Apple is back nonetheless with two new tablets for 2014. Let's break down the iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3, to see how their features and specs compare.

While there seems to be new applications popping up everyday, no industry is poised to benefit from this 3D printing in quite the way medicine is. The latest groundbreaking treatment involves an Indian cancer patient who has had his upper jaw replaced with the help of 3D printing.

The definition of a Nexus device seems to change every year. They do always run the latest version of stock Android, but pricing, how they're sold and how high-end their specs are have fluctuated. Let's see what it means to be a Nexus phone today, as we compare the Nexus 6 to the Nexus 5.

The last reversal of Earth's magnetic field occurred some 786,000 years ago and was previously thought to have taken several thousand years but, if new research is correct, the real time it may take for the flip to occur could actually be closer to the span of a human life.

No sooner does the University of Washington announce that it’s working on a breakthrough compact fusion reactor (CFR) than Lockheed Martin says that its Revolutionary Technology Programs unit, AKA the Skunk Works, in Palmdale, California has one that could be ready for market within ten years.

Microsoft's Windows 10 Technical Preview has been available for a few weeks now, and if you want to get a feel for what's coming but don't have an extra PC to install it on, installing it on a virtual machine is a hassle free way to give the new features a test drive.