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Longboard skateboards can travel downhill insanely fast, which makes the practice of downhill boarding look pretty scary to a lot of us. Add in the fact that the boards don’t have brakes, however, and it can seem downright suicidal. That’s why Benjamin Newman has developed the Brakeboard.

When it comes to bridging the gap between mobile and desktop, computing companies have lots of different ideas. One of the simplest is logging onto your own PC remotely. Parallels, maker of popular Mac virtualization software, just launched an iPad app that tries to add a new spin to that old trick.

The modern metal shipping container has proven to be a boon to both worldwide commerce, and architecture. Gizmag takes a look at the latter, with our favorite 10 uses of shipping containers in architecture.

The Micro Aerial Vehicle Laboratory at the TU Delft faculty of Aerospace Engineering is claiming to have created the of the world's smallest autopilot module. The team's goal is to eventually create MAVs Micro Aerial Vehicles small enough to fit into your pocket.

Logitech has added another mouse to its G line of gaming accessories. The G602 effectively puts an end to battery life and performance woes by offering over 10 days of non-stop, lag-free gaming.

The ladibird case for the iPhone 5 was designed to offer users DSLR-like image quality in a portable, lightweight, easy-to-use package. It features its own large camera sensor and portrait lens, producing the much-desired bokeh blurred background effect behind subjects.

The largest single piece of experimental scientific apparatus is CERN's Large Hadron Collider. The LHC's ATLAS detector, one of two that discovered the Higgs boson, has a control building adorned with a magnificent mural. How it happened is a fascinating glimpse at the crossroads of art and science.

Thomas Larson is looking to break into the camera phone attachment market and inspire a new generation of scientists with the Micro Phone Lens, an adhesive add-on lens that offers 15X optical magnification from a tiny footprint.

Magnesium alloys are very attractive for their light weight, specific strength and easy machinability, but they corrode easily. Researchers at Monash University have developed a novel way to poison corrosive reactions by adding a dash of arsenic to the recipe.

Although shooting baskets is an important part of basketball training in and of itself, it would certainly be helpful to know how many of your shots actually score – is your success rate increasing or dropping, and if so, by how much? The Hoop Tracker system is designed to let you know.

If you strip away the games that will also be available on current consoles, PCs, and mobile devices, you're left with 15 games in total that will require a Xbox One or PS4 to play when they're released. So the real question is, would any of these titles convince you to make the leap to next-gen?

If you’re a fairly serious videographer, you may well use a mini tripod, a brace, a camera stabilizing rig, and a monopod. Well, VariZoom’s new Stealthy combines all of those functions in one folding device.