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If you think that you've been seeing some funny-looking airliners in the past couple of months, you're not imagining things. On February 18th, a United Airlines Boeing 737-800 made the world's first commercial flight by an aircraft equipped with fuel-saving Split Scimitar Winglets.

Picking up where it left off with the Onyx Concept, Peugeot has revealed another sporty concept car that gets creative in the materials department. Like the Onyx, the EXALT concept catches the eye with a multi-material body that includes a healthy portion of bare metal.

What's that? A boat, a helicopter, some type of seaplane? It's the Helicat 22. This unique watercraft won't take off into the air, but it uses a helicopter-influenced catamaran design for a fast, stable ride over choppy water.

In introducing a big, glossy black-carbon bus trailer that it calls the "world's first all-carbon fiber RV," Global Caravan Technologies brings a heap of carbon fiber to the camper/RV market all at once.

Panasonic is reporting a 25.6 percent conversion efficiency for its HIT (Heterojunction with Intrinsic Thin layer) solar cells, which it claims as a world record for crystalline silicon-based solar cells of a "practical size."

Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg unveiled the Solar Impulse 2 on Wednesday. The result of 12 years work, the ultra-light, solar-powered airplane will attempt next year to fly around the world relying exclusively on solar power to keep it aloft for days at a time.

Bentley has been talking casually about adding a hybrid for years now, occasionally dropping the green buzzword into an interview or press release. It's now moving on to showing previews. The Bentley Hybrid Concept is the first official look at Bentley's plug-in hybrid future.

California-based Advanced Tactics, Inc., has announced its Black Knight Transformer, which combines the capabilities of a helicopter and an off-road vehicle, completed its first flight tests last month.

The benefits to health and wellbeing of having plants and greenery around an office are well documented. A recent project by Ingameoffice is more than just a few pot plants, though. Its TYJ Office Building refurbishment uses a wall planting system in which plants can be moved around.

London-based Lix Pen has developed a 3D printing pen that's claimed the smallest in the world. The Lix pen is 0.55 in (14 mm) in diameter and 6.45 in (164 mm) long.

With the New York Auto Show just around the corner, manufacturers are beginning to leak details of some of their new offerings. BMW will be on hand next week with not one but two new models: the M4 Convertible, with its 425 hp twin-turbo engine, and the mid-range crossover in the form of the X4.

Lockheed Martin announced that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has passed a comprehensive technical review, giving the green light for Lockheed to begin building the spacecraft in anticipation of a launch in 2016.