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In an effort to increase awareness of nutritional requirements, and to bring simple tech into complex customs, a medical foundation in India has joined forces with an ad agency. The plan is to combat iodine deficiencies using bindis, the decorative forehead dots worn by most Indian women and girls.

The four-wheel-drive Dominator 3200 Pro is the most powerful skateboard ever produced by Australian company Epic Skateboards. So it was with equal parts excitement and trepidation that we fired it up and took it to for a spin.

Modern deep space probes may be among the most sophisticated pieces of hardware the 21st century can produce, but the Rosetta space probe was thrown into safe mode recently when it was unable to take a simple star fix due to comet dust.

Good design is a functional expression of purpose and after 200 years of creating household technology and a 125 years of designing transportation technology, Peugeot Design has married the two with an ingenious mobile restaurant "Foodtruck" concept.

People have actually claimed to have seen living pterosuars, although those alleged sightings tend to be confined to far-flung places. That could be about to change, however. PaulG Toys is raising production funds for a radio-controlled pterodactyl, that flies by flapping its wings.

British-based auto-firm Delphi has completed a journey from San Francisco to New York with its self-driving car. The trip, announced in March, covered nearly 3,400 miles (5,500 km) and took nine days. Delphi says it is the first US coast-to-coast trip ever taken by an automated vehicle.

If you're a regular camper, you probably know what it's like to pitch a tent on a warm evening and wake up the next morning feeling like you're sleeping in an oven. Cold weather camping can be just as grim, too. Derek O'Sullivan reckons he's solved these issues with his Thermo Tent.

Human locomotion is so efficient that many wondered whether it was possible to reduce the energy cost of walking without the use of an external energy source. Now researchers have provided an answer in the affirmative with the development of an unpowered ankle exoskeleton.

Since opening in 2013, the Bullitt Center in Seattle has been claimed to be the world's greenest commercial building. Now it's been awarded Living Building certification, a mark that's regarded as the highest standard of building sustainability.

Microsoft's new Surface 3 takes many of the qualities that made the Surface Pro 3 great, and puts them in a smaller, cheaper and lower-octane package. Let's see how it compares to Apple's latest 11-in MacBook Air.

For the last few years, Samsung has been steadily improving the Galaxy S series. But one thing always stayed the same: plastic. So what happens when Samsung switches to premium materials and leaps forward in other areas? You get the outstanding Samsung Galaxy S6.

PhD student Geoff de Ruiter always liked the idea of owning his own tiny bolthole. Thus he bought a 0.2 hectare (0.5 acre) plot of rural land on Pender Island, British Columbia, for a total of US$35,000, and then went about designing and building himself a treehouse from scratch for just $8,200.