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Space smuggling may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but despite the short history of human space flight, people have been sneaking things into space since more or less the beginning. New Atlas takes a look at five of the strangest things to be secreted aboard spaceships… that we know of.

An almost two-year-long cosmic search party has come to an end, with scientists at the European Space Agency spying their Philae comet lander wedged into the dark crack on the surface of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

​The Royal Navy's latest seagoing robot took to the waves today in the heart of London. Accompanied by patrol boat HMS Archer, the unmanned MAST autonomous speedboat negotiated the traffic on the Thames estuary.

Barking voice commands at devices is pretty commonplace these days, but these are designed with adults in mind. Kids have very different speech patterns, and Disney Research has developed a system that picks out key words from chatter and overlapping speech to let kids play a game with their voice.

Volkswagen wants to make it a bit easier to communicate with delivery drivers and mailmen, allowing people to connect their infotainment system to the video bell attached to their doors. ​

Detection of E. coli bacteria involves tests that typically take several hours, and must be performed in a lab. That could soon change, however, as scientists have developed a portable sensor that can do the job in 15 to 20 minutes. ​

They're not the first transistors created using carbon nanotubes (CNTs), but researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) claim their new carbon nanotube transistors are the first to outperform the best silicon transistors available today.

A new electric vehicle (EV) charging station that has opened in Norway is claimed to be the world's biggest. Located in Nebbenes, about 65 km (40 mi) and​ 45 minutes north of the country's capital, Oslo, it offers 28 charging points said to cater for all types of modern EVs.

Introduced on the latest 208, Peugeot's new design language set the foundation for some of the best looking family cars out there, but the 5008 might be the most successful application yet. It's not only stylish on the outside, but also has all the space to ferry families from A to B in comfort.​

There's something almost magical about the boxy look of synthesized tone creators of yesteryear. Sweden's Love Hulten has drawn on iconic designs from 40 years ago to create the Voxarray 61, a modern sonic laboratory encased in vintage-looking real wood gorgeousness.

​Last year, Yamaha added over 20 new products to its multi-room streaming platform. That momentum has slowed down a little this year, but the company threw a curve ball at the weekend by announcing that its Disklavier Enspire reproducing piano had been welcomed into the MusicCast family.

A great deal of co-living and co-working spaces are located in cities, but that doesn't always need to be the case. An extreme example of this is Carlo Ratti Associati's planned Pankhasari Retreat, which aims to let people work online from the Himalayas.