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He may be the man behind PayPal, Tesla Motors and SpaceX, but Elon Musk has been garnering more attention lately for his proposed Hyperloop. He has now revealed the design and details of his proposed Hyperloop transit system.

Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and Canadian company Mevex have tested a new scanning technique using powerful X-rays that can detect small trace amounts of gold within mineral samples quickly and accurately.

As much fun as Lego bricks can be, high price tags make it difficult for many people to build the more elaborate models they really want. With Pleygo, people can pay a much cheaper monthly fee to rent as many Lego sets as they want one at a time, much as Netflix rents out movies.

Toyota has revealed a sneak preview and teaser photo of a concept hybrid that it will debut at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show. Based on a powertrain derived from racing, the Hybrid-R packs more than 400 hp.

Easton LaChappelle, a 17-year old high school student, is developing an alternative to advanced prosthetic arms and hands using freely available online resources and the boom in inexpensive 3D printers. It has already attracted the attention of the White House and NASA.

Misa Digital's Michael Zarimis has retired the Kitara digital guitar and controller that Gizmag reviewed in November 2011, and has launched the tri-bass. The new kid on the Misa block doesn't produce its own sounds, but is used as a MIDI controller for synths and software.

Located on the edge of a forest near Budapest, the prefabricated Black Magic House by T2.a Architects is, as its name suggests, both black and a house. The "magic" part? The home's basic structure was built in just two days.

Parrot has added a new model to its Zikmu line of wireless speakers with the introduction of the Solo, a 2.1 system with Wi-Fi, ethernet, Bluetooth, and Apple Dock connectors.

What do electronic signatures, fingerprint scans and touch-sensitive robot skin have in common? All three technologies may soon be advancing, thanks to a new system that turns an array of zinc oxide nanowires into tiny LEDs.

if you want your child to develop a connoisseur-like appreciation of classic cars, you might want to spoil them with the new child-size Shelby Cobra 427. The electric car has reverse, low and high gears and travels at speeds of up to 5 mph (8 km/h).

The LG Electronics Classic TV brings back a whiff of nostalgia with its LED technology, combined with channel and volume knobs.

One of the drawbacks of investing in an interchangeable lens camera is that you're invariably locked into its mount system, whether that's Canon, Nikon or Sony. But that could all be about to change with the launch of the Sigma lens mount conversion service.