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Gizmag has covered several devices that tackle the issue of "last-mile transportation." The Movpak puts an electric skateboard-like electric vehicle into a backpack.

Electric skateboards as a form of urban transport are certainly building up some momentum. Florida-based start-up Marbel is the latest to set its wheels in motion, this week launching a crowdfunding campaign for what it claims to be the world's lightest electric vehicle – the 9.9 lb Marbel.

The University of Sheffield has revealed the “world’s first air-cleansing poem” – a combination of a new work by award-winning writer Simon Armitage and a chemical formula developed at Sheffield by Professor Tony Ryan.

We've seen plastics that indicate the freshness of food, and we've also covered food packaging that lets people know if it's still fresh. Now, a product called Peres aims to perform a similar task, but it does it with a sensor and a smartphone or tablet.

Data collected by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope over the past 20 years show Jupiter's Great Red Spot has been shrinking at an increasing rate to its current, and smallest, recorded size.

This month, the public will get the chance to meet a robot at the Natural History Museum in London that is designed to learn about its surroundings and make it easier to work human environments.

Volvo has announced plans to study the potential for electric roads that charge buses as they're being driven. A stretch of electric road may be built in Gothenburg for testing.

The latest device promising to help usher in the suburban technological utopia of the smart home is the Alyt, an Android-powered smart home system that can be controlled not only through an app on a mobile device, but also via voice commands.

Late last week, we got the chance to try out some brand new e-bikes at the first-ever Charged Up electric bike media event. Among the models that were on display, the Secede urban trekking bike offers a particularly interesting feature – it breaks into two pieces for easier transport and storage.

Although you'll probably never make it to outer space, Swiss Space Systems (S3) is at least trying to move the zero-gravity experience a little closer to reality for the average person, with what it claims will be the world's cheapest weightlessness-inducing flights.

One of the most fascinating aspects of the fast growing collectibles marketplace is the point where categories intersect. Movie cars are the point where automobile collecting and the entertainment industry meet.

CSIRO Australia and its industry partner, Ziltek, have released their self-contained, hand-held hydrocarbon contamination testing device to the US market. Billed as a world first, the RemScam is capable of testing many hundred samples a day, providing data on the spot, within seconds.