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Sometimes all virtual reality needs to do to blow your mind is put you in a well-polished sandbox and let you screw around. Owlchemy Labs has mastered this art, with the upcoming VR title Job Simulator. We sat down with the studio to chat about the game's origins and surprising amount of structure.

At small climbing centers, regular visitors can quickly exhaust all the available runs. At a new facility in the US city of Austin, Texas, which is said to be the world's largest bouldering center, climbing sections are rotated twice a week to create new runs.

University of Michigan researchers have entered the race to build a lightweight, more affordable and more effective football helmet with a system they’ve called Mitigatium that incorporates three different layers that are meant to blunt some dangerous physics that today’s helmet designs ignore.

To make radio frequency identification (RFID) chips a bit more secure, MIT and Texas Instruments are developing an "unhackable" RFID chip that's designed to fend off information-stealing attacks.​

When a burn wound is healing, it's highly-susceptible to infection, and bandages often make the situation worse, acting as breeding grounds for harmful microbes. A new bandage could improve the healing process considerably, accelerating the scarring process, while stopping bacteria multiplying.

The new Indian Motorcycle Springfield resembles the Indian Classic and the Chief except for its ability to quickly shift from cruiser to bagger and back with a quick release windshield, removable passenger seat, and removable hard saddlebags that still offer remote locking capability.

Samsung's new Galaxy S7 doesn't look like a radical upgrade over last year's Galaxy S6, but there are some key changes under the surface. Let's line up old and new Galaxy, to see if it's worth the upgrade.

Developed by Acer, the new Cybertool brings some smarts to the Victorinox Inox Swiss Army watch, turning it into a smartwatch with classic analog dial.

We cover a lot of Passive Houses here at Gizmag, but they're still relatively rare. Which is why it's exciting that Ireland's Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council has reportedly passed a law requiring that all new homes be built to the green standard.

If Carlo Ratti's newly-announced observation tower comes to fruition (and it's a big "if"), it will be as much a sight to behold as the views it provides. The proposed structure is a mile high, which would make it the tallest observation tower in the world.

A year ago, UK-based Boxer Cycles launched the Rocket, a unique, child-carrying electric trike styled like a classic aircraft. This year, it adds an even more stylish, luxurious version, the Rocket Saturn. Like a special edition car, the new trike enjoys both styling and performance upgrades.​

ESA has concluded that it's possible to build a hybrid solar-sail/electric-propulsion satellite that could hover over either of the Earth's poles by balancing the pull of the Earth and the Sun.