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If speed is your thing and you have some loose change to spare, then an upcoming auction may have just the item for you. UK-based RM Auctions is offering a Kholod hypersonic rocket as an upcoming lot. The Kholod is the fastest machine to have ever flown within the Earth's atmosphere.

A newly produced material is believed to be the "blackest" ever created. Vantablack is a pure carbon coating and absorbs 99.96 percent of incident radiation (solar energy as it hits the material's surface). Manufacturer Surrey NanoSystems believes that is the highest such figure ever recorded.

MIT's "supernumerary robotic fingers" extend from either side of the user's dominant hand, and are attached to a device that's worn around the wrist. The idea behind them is that (among other things) they could allow users to perform tasks that usually require two hands, using only one.

The LeapTV from LeapFrog is an educational gaming system for children which uses Wii-like motion controllers and a Kinect-esque motion-sensing camera to put children into the game.

The price for collectible Ferrari's has consistently been on the rise and now another impressive bidding scenario is shaping up as one of only three 1964 Ferrari 275 GTB/C Speciale’s goes up for auction next month.

A group of British artists have conceptualized a giant solar harvesting floating duck as part of the 2014 Land Art Generator Initiative Copenhagen design competition. Energy Duck has been designed to generate clean electricity for the local residents of Copenhagen.

Generating renewable electricity at home or in commercial buildings is becoming increasingly viable. WindStream Technologies has installed what it says is the world's largest wind-solar hybrid array on an office roof in Kingston, Jamaica. The array is expected to generate over 106,000 kWh annually.

Drawing inspiration from the social issues plaguing much of the Brazil's 2014 World Cup, a pair of French architects have developed a proposal to re-invent the stadiums as complexes for low-cost housing that could provide affordable living for 20,000 Brazilian people.

A project at EPFL's Mobile Communications Laboratory is looking to take advantage of the fact that people are rarely without their mobile phones by developing a drone that would help rescuers search for victims of natural disasters by locating their phones.

LG’s latest handset isn't looking to rewrite the Android book, but it does want to make it easier to read with its huge, ultra-sharp display. Read on as Gizmag takes an in-depth look at the LG G3.

To help maintain morale and retain skilled ship crews, Maritime Broadband has developed its C-Bird Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) satellite transceiver to keep sailors connected with their families and the internet.

The Modulus.002 is a boutique polyphonic sound machine that mixes classic analog sound creation techniques with some digital magic to give musicians access to the kind of sounds made famous by vintage instruments of the 70s and 80s.