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The Singapore-based designers behind the Ember Stove aren’t ones to complicate things, taking to Kickstarter with a compact two-piece cooking solution designed to slide into your pocket and fire up with just a handful of twigs.

​​Less than a week has passed since NASA’s Insight spacecraft settled into its dusty landing site on the surface of Mars, but the intrepid science laboratory has already claimed a new record for power generation on the Red Planet. ​

​Kia put the Niro to market about a year ago, as the company’s first vehicle designed specifically to be electrified. For 2018, Kia introduced the Niro Plug-in Hybrid model. With the PHEV, we can get hints as to what the upcoming battery electric model will be like, too.

If you went anywhere near a rec room or a gift shop in the early 2000s, you probably remember Big Mouth Billy Bass, that motion-sensing, singing, rubber fish. Now, to reel in those customers that got away, there’s a new version of the iconic gag gift that baits the hook with Alexa integration.

​Ordinarily, it takes two to five days to determine if harmful bacteria are present in a patient's biological samples. Within that time, any infection that's present could get much worse. A newly-developed biosensor, however, is capable of analyzing samples on the spot.

Replicas of famous paintings are routinely created with printers that use only four inks – cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. RePaint, a new technique developed at MIT, combines artificial intelligence, 3D printing, and a rich 10-ink palette for much more faithful results in any lighting condition.

It's easy to take web access for granted, but in many regions getting online isn't as simple as just opening up a browser window. Now Chinese firm LinkSure Network has announced a system of satellites to be launched by 2026, which it wants to provide internet access across the globe, free of charge.

Astronomers have now asked “how much light has been emitted in the universe?” Using a new measurement method, the team has apparently managed to quantify all the starlight ever produced in the observable universe – and the result is a figure that’ll make your eyes water.

​Cargo bikes may be handy for schlepping stuff around, but they're also rather long and ungainly to park, store, or use as regular commuters. That's why German product design student David Maurer-Laube created the Convercycle – it's a standard-length e-bike that folds out to haul cargo.

To those of a certain age, the Commodore 64 is synonymous with 80s gaming. Lego, on the other hand, is a little-known children's toy from the southern reaches of Scandinavia. Perhaps inevitably, someone has thought to marry the two, resulting in The Brixty Four.

For decommissioning a nuclear site, researchers at the University of Bristol are proposing an Iron Man-like armored exoskeleton that would protect workers from radioactive contamination, while also reducing fatigue and providing vital information through helmet-mounted AR displays.

The Lincoln Aviator has debuted at the Los Angeles Auto Show as a new midsize luxury sport utility slotting underneath the larger Navigator as a three-row SUV. Based on the Ford Explorer’s platform, the Aviator includes high technology and a hybrid variant that brings some interesting speculations.