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​Scientists have been experimenting for some years with electroencephalography (EEG) as an interface for mind-controlled devices. Now a group of researchers has developed the Encephalophone, a musical instrument that can be played using the power of your mind.

There’s a mind-boggling amount of data naturally stored in the genome of every organism, with far better density and durability. Now a Harvard team has created a biological hard drive, using the CRISPR gene-editing tool to record information to (and retrieve it from) the genome of living bacteria.

Most people don’t understand sign language, to the frustration of those who rely on it to communicate. Now engineers have developed a prototype called “The Language of Glove,” a Bluetooth-enabled, sensor-packed glove that reads the hand gestures of sign language and translates them into text.

Lockheed Martin says that the three variants of the F-35 Lightning II have completed over 100,000 flight hours and the next-generation fighter aircraft is on its way to completing its final System Development and Demonstration (SDD) phase.

​A large-scale meta-analysis of 185 studies across 40 years has found a more than 50 percent decline in sperm concentration and total sperm count among men from North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The rate of decline was found to be consistent and is cause for concern if it continues.

In the future, we might overcome anxiety about a dying phone battery by doing a few star jumps. Researchers are developing an ultra-thin device that can generate electricity from motions as subtle as sitting down, opening up possibilities of clothes that charge phones or light up like an LCD screen.

Auction prices for the Volkswagen Samba van have skyrocketed this year. In January, a 21-window model sold for $302,500 and in April a 23-window model sold for $291,500. Now several near perfect Sambas are heading for auction at Monterey Car Week, and more records could go.

With an automated future looming, getting our kids interested in coding is becoming just as important as reading, writing and arithmetic. The latest project to join efforts from Fisher-Price, Google and Osmo is Algobrix, a learning platform where youngsters build colorful bots and play with code.​

Thermacell Repellents, Inc. is all about keeping probing mosquitoes away in a simple, push-button way. It's latest product, the Radius Zone Mosquito Repellent, trades butane power for rechargeable lithium-ion power.

Mitsubishi has been teasing a new family car for quite some time, and it's finally arrived in the form of the oddball Expander. The world is going crazy for SUVs at the moment but Mitsubishi has taken a different path, instead running with the strange MPV/SUV hybrid shape you see here.

The Lamborghini Huracán Performante has been enjoying a little active travel. Now that it's summer, it is taking things easy, veering east for a relaxing boys' trip. Along with five other Huracáns, it accelerated, tunneled and switchbacked through the mountains of Transylvania.

​They may be modeled on the human brain, but neural networks are better at sorting through huge amounts of data and identifying patterns. Now to make them more accessible to smaller developers, Intel has launched the Movidius Neural Compute Stick, packing deep learning into a USB thumb drive.