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Throughout 2014, concept cars broke ground on the future of cleaner commuting, showcasing technologies that will get us from point A to point B without so much impact on the rest of the alphabet. Here are our favorite green concept cars from the year.

Samsung, a company generally regarded as one of the best display manufacturers out there, has just announced an impressive-looking 34-inch curved computer monitor. The company has already released an abundance of curved monitors, including its giant 105-inch model.

HP has announced a new model in its competitive Chromebook 14 line. Bearing the same moniker as the existing machine, the new notebook offers a higher resolution display over its sibling, as well as touchscreen functionality and increased memory and storage.

With objects you need to take camping or that you need to keep on you at all times, portability is key. Reducing camping cutlery down to an absolute minimum is the approach Micah Baclig has taken with his new spork. The Kuma fits into the palm of a hand.

The latest iteration of Vo Trong Nghia Architects' low-cost house prototype boasts a quicker on-site build time of just three hours. Though it weighs 1,200 kg (2,645 lb), individual components are designed to be no more than 60 kg (132 lb).

The HexH20 multicopter has an epoxy fiber/carbon fiber waterproof body that floats on the surface of the water. This means that users can fly it out to a spot on a reasonably calm body of water, land it, get shots of whatever's lurking below the surface, then take off again.

Three motorcycles owned by actor Steve McQueen will go under the hammer on January 8, once more threatening auction records. This article chronicles the history of cars and bikes formerly owned by McQueen sending enthusiasts into a bidding frenzy at auction and the prospects for the three bikes.

Pininfarina does much more than just style beautiful cars, and ample testimony will appear at auction next week in the form of a radical 1960s concept. With its four wheels arranged in a diamond shape, the tiny aerodynamic four-seater Pininfarina-X had a drag coefficient of 0.23.

Dutch construction firm Heijmans recently took the wraps off a new prototype prefabricated sustainable home that it hopes to rent out to young single professionals. The Heijmans ONE is currently being tested with a view to launch in 2015.

Although we've seen a lot of interesting ideas regarding what may be powering or guiding the cars of the future, it seems that those vehicles' tires don't fire the imagination in quite the same way. Hankook is trying to change that, however, with its Hankook Tyre Design Challenge.

The P1 GTR is being billed as an homage to the F1 GTR Le Mans winner, and we thought that'd be the extent of McLaren's anniversary celebration. This week, though, it revealed the 650S Le Mans, a special edition designed to give another hat tip to the past.

With the help of very high-power laser beams, researchers at the University of Rochester have created micro and nanostructures that turn metals black and make their surfaces very easy to keep clean and dry.