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A new crowdsourcing initiative is calling upon the public to help catalog the ever increasing library of stunning images snapped of our planet, and more importantly its cities, at night from the International Space Station (ISS).

When we met with Oculus VR earlier this year, the team mentioned that future versions of the Rift headset could skip the PC, and instead use mobile devices for brains. Now we see what they were cooking up. Read on, as Gizmag reviews Oculus' collaboration with Samsung, the Gear VR Innovator Edition.

Blink and you'll miss it, but what appears at first glance to be a large boulder is actually a tiny cabin that contains all the basics you'd need for a short stay in the mountains. The cabin is the work of Swiss firm Bureau A, and was recently installed in a sculpture park in the Swiss Alps.

Dragan Tutić felt that using wave power to turn seawater into the drinkable variety on the spot had been largely unexplored. Having now developed a prototype, he hopes to deploy his wave-powered desalinator to where water scarcity threatens the survival of coastal communities.

Researchers at Bielefeld University have created a one-of-a-kind robot that mimics a stick insect in order to be able to more easily traverse rough ground. It is hoped that such a creation will benefit not only roboticists but also biologists interested in animal movement.

Deloitte's new corporate headquarters in Amsterdam has been certified as the most sustainable office building in the world by BREEAM. The Edge was awarded an "Outstanding" rating with the highest ever BREEAM score of 98.36 percent. It takes the title from One Embankment Place in London.

Creative has combined its audio processing know-how with audiophile-grade components for a new addition to the Sound Blaster audio family. The X7 boasts more features than any Sound Blaster before it, including a built-in power amp, cross-platform connectivity and intelligent audio enhancement tech.

If you're looking to journey across rough, rugged back roads, a pickup truck is a good choice. If, on the other hand, that journey is going to take you beyond the very edge of civilization, you may want something even tougher, something like the all-new, Alaskan-inspired Nissan Project Titan.

Before Mercedes first unveiled its G 63 AMG 6x6, California-based Tyrant Motorworks converted a 2012 Jeep Wrangler to six-wheel-drive. Developed mainly as a promotional vehicle, it's now about to be replaced by a new-and-improved model ... so it can be yours, if you place the winning bid on eBay.

Los Angeles-based augmented reality developer DAQRI is looking to bring the humble protective hard hat into the modern era with the Smart Helmet – a Google Glass-like system geared specifically towards industrial applications.

Apple unveiled its first wearable today. The Apple Watch looks to be the most powerful and stylish smart watch we've seen yet.

As part of the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project, remote sensing technology and geophysical survey equipment has been used by researchers to discover and map previously unknown buried features that show stunning detail of Roman and Bronze and Iron Age settlements.