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It was a couple of years ago that Cerevo first unveiled its high-tech limited-edition Orbitrec road bike. Now, the Japanese consumer electronics manufacturer has announced pricing – the bike will cost you a whopping US$140,000, although that figure includes two return trips to Tokyo.

Chinese smartphone company Oppo has confirmed that it's working on "10X lossless zoom" technology that would give you a 15.9-159mm equivalent zoom capability on a handset to be released sometime this year. There's also wide-zone biometrics allowing the whole screen to be a fingerprint sensor.

Print Your City, which turned plastic waste into street furniture, has gone from early prototypes to city scale project with the launch of a Zero Waste Lab in Thessaloniki, Greece, where locals can take their plastic waste and have it turned into urban furniture.​

​​Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo has added the finishing touches to an impressive interior space inside an old railway station in Holland, rebirthing it as an "urban living room" known as the LocHal Library.

​If you've ever tried securing items to a car's rooftop carrier, then you'll know how difficult reaching around up there can be. Rightline Gear's Moki Door Step is designed to address that problem, providing users with – well, a door step – that hooks onto their vehicle's door latch.

​Probably ever since bicycles were first invented, people have been looking for alternatives to the traditional approach of pedalling in circles. Los Angeles-based inventor Rodger Parker has utilized one such alternative in his NuBike, which he claims is more efficient than a chain-drive bike.

It can be hard to picture a living creature from dusty bones and old footprints, but now that might require a little less imagination. Researchers at EPFL and the Humboldt University of Berlin have built a robot to figure out just how a 300-million year-old ancestor of ours might have moved around.

We've seen huge strides in the development of big walking bots, small rollers and shape-changing drones, but Robugtix sees a gap in the market for something that slots inbetween. Its new Z6 robot is small enough to fit in a backpack but capable enough to carry cargo and perform on-site tasks.​

A new study paints pterosaurs as far cuddlier creatures than we might have thought. According to an international team of palaeontologists, pterosaurs were covered in no less than four different types of feathers, pushing back the origin of this bodily covering by about 70 million years.

Astronomers are welcoming the newest and most distant object in the solar system – a dwarf planet orbiting more than 100 times further from the Sun than Earth. And because its discoverers aren’t the most creative bunch, it’s been dubbed “Farout.”

Decked out in full carbon, and with a list of upgrades a mile long, the 2019 Yamaha YZF-R1 GYTR "20th Anniversary" will be assembled by the Yamaha Racing Team crew for the 20 riders lucky enough to get their hands on one.

​We all know how painful ripping off a band-aid can be. It may not be so unpleasant in the not-too-distant future, however, as scientists have created an adhesive that detaches in the presence of ultraviolet light.