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Many homes in Taiwan feature illegal makeshift shelters on their rooftops to provide extra living space. A team of architects has developed a concept house which would give these shelters a greenhouse-inspired makeover and shift reliance to renewable sources of energy.

Tandem bicycles are great for allowing couples to ride together, but they're not exactly conducive to riding by yourself. While you could just buy a tandem and a solo bike, Calfee Design has built a tandem that can be converted into a single.

Roland has announced a new portable instrument and vocal amp called the Cube Street EX. It has two woofers and two tweeters for up to 50 W of output oomph, and can stay on the street for up to 20 hours on battery power.

With a projected settlement date of 2025, the Mars One project has received over 200,000 applications for the one way trip to the Red Planet. Bryan Versteeg is a conceptual designer who’s been working with the Mars One team in anticipation of the planet’s eventual colonization.

Virgin Media Business has announced the winners of its inaugural Three New Things competition. The contest was launched as part of the company's search to uncover new technologies that have the potential to change the way we live. This year's winning tech includes shoes, solar power and satellites.

Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a faster, cheaper way for nuclear power plants to detect and map dangerous hot spots and leaky fuel rods using a camera that maps radiation in real time.

House In a Warehouse, by Melbourne-based architectural firm Splinter Society, saw the transformation of an industrial space into a family home which features stormwater collection, solar hot water, and computer controlled lighting to reduce energy requirements.

What options are there for hip, young golfers who are too cool for carts? Well, they might soon be able to carve across the greens on an electric 4-wheel drive GolfBoard.

By using raw data from Multi Slice Computerized Tomography (MSCT) and processing it through sophisticated software on high performance computer systems, Malaysian entrepreneur Mathavan (Matt) Chandran, hopes to largely negate the need to slice open bodies at autopsy.

Boeing has rolled out the first 787-9 Dreamliner variant at its Everett, Washington assembly plant. The second of three variants of the Dreamliner, the 787-9 carries more passengers and has a greater range than the 787-8. The first 787-9 off the line is scheduled to be delivered in mid 2014.

Paintball gun design has remained about the same since the sport began, but an upcoming product could change the game entirely. The Strikeloader is a battery-operated backpack that feeds paintballs directly into a gun, eliminating the need for a regular loader while holding six times as much ammo.

Created by the same young British designers behind Wikihouse, OpenDesk is a set of open source furniture designs that aim to bypass shipping and transport costs by keeping manufacturing local.