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In a recent demonstration for the US Department of Defense, Boeing's Thin Disk Laser system has delivered an output 30 percent higher than project requirements, a result which paves the way toward a practical tactical laser weapon.

The new A3 eKurzinfo app from Mataio provides a sort of augmented reality owner's manual, allowing users to pull up information about more than 300 parts of the Audi A3.

Illawarra Flame is a net-zero house, but wasn't always that way. The environmentally-friendly house was formerly an energy-inefficient "fibro house" – that is, until students from the University of Wollongong got hold of it.

Terrafugia's Transition flying car recently made its first public flights at the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. The Terrafugia team conducted two 20-minute flight demonstrations and also showed off the capability for the Transition's wings to be folded up so it can be driven about like a car.

A team of scientists led by the University of Maryland claim that the Voyager 1 space probe, which is now 11 billion miles (18 billion km) from Earth, left the Solar System’s boundary last year and is not, as NASA claims, passing through a transition zone.

Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) are testing a new propulsion system ... inside the station. While this might seem like the height of recklessness, this particular system doesn't use rockets or propellants.

With the goal of meeting the shortfall in donor hearts, scientists have bioengineered a mouse heart in the lab that beats on its own. The mouse heart had its cells replaced with human cells, offering the potential of growing custom replacement hearts that wouldn't be rejected by the recipient.

The gStick is a computer mouse that looks and feels like a large pen. This makes it an ergonomic and comfortable alternative to the traditional computer mouse, and especially suited to gamers or creative people who need precision control.

The Companion Bike Seat has the basic form of a rear rack, but includes a seat cushion and foot pegs for accommodating a passenger on your ride. It also includes a lockable cargo storage box.

After spending two weeks testing the much-hyped Moto X Android phone with touchless control, Gizmag's Eric Mack has a few more thoughts and some deeper observations about the first smartphone fully designed by a Google-owned Motorola.

Noah Watenmaker and Thao Pham from We Anything Build (WAB) are putting the finishing touches to a new stringed instrument named kitar that will allow a player to change neck or body configurations on the fly.

With glowing reviews and positive sales, Tesla's Model S seems to be on a roll in 2013. Now the EV has joined the 1 percent of vehicles to have achieved a 5-star safety rating in testing by the NHTSA, scoring a record 5.4 rating in its overall Vehicle Safety Score (VSS).