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At Newport News, Virginia, the USS Gerald R Ford (CVN 78) successfully test fired a revolutionary Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS), which replaces the steam catapults that have been standard carrier equipment since the 1950s.

Japanese tech firm SoftBank has announced that its emotion-sensing robot, Pepper, will go on sale in Japan from June 20. The company says that Pepper is the world’s first personal robot that can read a person's emotions. In addition, it has been designed to portray emotions of its own.

There's a new way to streamline your camping kitchen thanks to the Camp Champ, which packs a home kitchen's worth of cooking gear into a neat box. At camp, the box opens up into a full kitchen area complete with stove, cookware and plenty of counter space.

Cellulose – the most abundant organic compound on the planet – has successfully been used to 3D print a range of objects, including some that are electrically conductive. It's being pitched as a biodegradable and renewable alternative to the plastics and metals commonly used in 3D printing.

Today, Canadian company UrtheCast is celebrating the release of three full-color videos shot from its Ultra HD Iris imaging device, mounted on the exterior of the International Space Station (ISS).

Researchers have discovered an unlikely source of renewable energy, the naturally-occurring cycle that is water evaporation. Scientists replicated this process in the laboratory and harnessed its energy to power tiny machines, one of which was a moving, miniature car.

Kids' bikes are learning to grow as quickly as children. Designs like the Grow bike and B'kid expand in size to keep up with the fast-growing tyke. The new Leg&Go bike does that and even transforms to keep the ride going indoors and out in the snow.

Unless you carry your clubs around yourself, a round of golf is often bookended with a clumsy assemblage and dismantling of a buggy. But for GolferPal, this isn't the most ideal way to warm up or warm down – so the company has created a motorized golf buggy that does the work for you.

This Monday, Nest announced updates to its entire product line: the Nest thermostat, Nest Protect, and Dropcam, which is now going to be called Nest Cam.

Ricoh has updated its line of fixed focal length compact cameras with the GR II. The new model is the first GR camera to feature built-in Wi-Fi for easy sharing and remote shooting. It also features a bigger buffer for better performance when using continuous shooting.

For those of us of a certain age, the old VW camper van introduced in the 1950s held the promise of a compact, affordable home away from home. Volkswagen is continuing this tradition with a new California variant of its Transporter T6.

Australian innovator Chris Wilkins has developed a new technology to make vertical green walls simple with his plug and play concept. Lightweight, modular and with a cleverly designed aeroponics system, business is booming.