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In 2017 we witnessed a solar eclipse cross the US, welcomed an interstellar visitor, and discovered some exciting Earth-sized exoplanets. Some astonishing images of the farthest reaches of our universe were also captured. Here we collect some of the most awe-inspiring space images of 2017.

​When you're cycling past parked cars on a busy road, you've really just got to hope that none of those vehicles' drivers decide to open their door right in front of you. Well, a new prototype device could help keep that from happening.

Nissan used the LA Auto show as an excuse for a bit of Star Wars fan service this year, taking a bunch of Rogues, Altimas and Maximas and letting Lucasfilm's design artists tart them up in Star Wars style. Star Wars-themed AR displays will also roll out at showrooms across North America.​

While investigating the side effects of antibiotics and how bacteria can develop resistance to them, researchers from MIT and Harvard have found that the drugs can actually work against the body, weakening the immune system’s ability to fight off the bugs.

Toyota has been exploring a number of off-road-oriented utility vehicle designs this year, starting with a compact urban escape pod and working through to a gear-hauling MP-SUV. Now it's back with the FT-AC, an urban-to-wild crossover loaded with multifunctional equipment.

​Back in July we reported on the Amabrush, a mouthpiece that cleaned all your teeth in just 10 seconds. For those who felt 10 seconds was still way too long a time to be wasting cleaning your teeth we introduce the Unico, a smartbrush mouthpiece that brushes your teeth in just three seconds!

​The Alexa voice assistant seems to be pretty much everywhere these days – in Amazon's own Bluetooth speakers, living inside fancy lamps, or helping smartphone users cope with their busy lives. Now the company's business arm has unveiled plans to get Alexa into the workplace.​

Last year, we first heard about Fraunhofer's DEDAVE unmanned submersible. Then this July, we got word of an initiative aimed at locating sunken flight models of a famous Canadian jet fighter. Now, the two have come together – a DEDAVE has located a couple of of the models.

In what promises to be a big step forward in 3D vision systems for autonomous vehicles, Velodyne has announced a new 128-channel LiDAR sensor that boasts the longest range and highest-resolution on the market.

​The OneManBand technology from OMB Guitars essentially combines aspects of BeatBuddy, DigiTech's Trio stomp and Fishman's TriplePlay into one package, allowing guitarists to play along to a real-time backing band, solo using different instrument sounds or use the six string as a MIDI controller.

​That ground beef that you're buying may not be 100 percent ground beef. Sometimes, unscrupulous meat producers will mix in ground offal, in order to stretch their beef supply farther. A new technique, however, uses a laser to detect the presence of such cow innards.

For the price of a year-long backpacking trip around the world, you can now own the fastest-ever 75mm aspherical lens. Leica's new Noctilux-M 75mm f/1.25 is a US$13,000 piece of glass with a monster aperture and a razor-thin depth of field to deliver dreamy out-of-focus bokeh.