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On April 4, 2017, the world's largest boring machine broke through to the open air. Called Bertha,the story of how it made its journey under the skyscrapers of the port city is not only a tale of a remarkable machine, but also of proving the old adage that what can go wrong will go wrong.

Anti-virus and cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab has released an esoteric collaborative art project that sets its sights on what the world will be like in 2050. Artists, futurists and scientists have been asked to contribute their predictions. Here's our favourite good, bad and weird ideas.

Kohn Pedersen Fox's Lotte World Tower rises half a kilometer over Seoul and is the world's fifth-tallest building. For those with a head for heights, the skyscraper boasts the world's highest glass-bottomed observation deck, reached by the world's fastest elevator.

​​Studying exoplanets is tricky, but by probing their atmospheres scientists can gain valuable insights into their composition. This arm of astronomy took a promising step forward today, with researchers detecting what they say is the first evidence of an atmosphere around an Earth-sized planet. ​

This year's Space Symposium, had some impressive technology on display, most notably the replicas of Blue Origin's space capsule and a simulator for Boeing's Starliner. We got a chance to check them both out and take a peek at the future of commercial space travel.​

Wallace Detroit Guitars has been making guitars using wood reclaimed from the Motor City for the last few years, and its latest series of handcrafted axes are fashioned from wood salvaged from a former Detroit Fire Department HQ.​ The Firehouse Series is limited to a run of just 12 guitars.

The Ottolock bike lock recently raised a few eyebrows, as it looks like a zip-tie on steroids. Hiplok's Z Lok should raise a few more, as it looks like a regular zip-tie – but there's more to it than that.​

Reebok is using corn for something different – the rubber soles of shoes. The company's Cotton + Corn initiative is focused on making footwear entirely from "things that grow" instead of from non-renewable petroleum by-products, and that can be composted once it's worn out.​

In the world of haute chronologie, what is simple for a digital watch can be anything but for a mechanical timepiece. The aptly names Hysek Colossal is a giant of a wristwatch that uses an innovative movement to create a 24-hour time readout that's both numeric and displays midnight correctly.

How did non-living matter transition into living organisms? A team is gently rocking a combination of key minerals and organic molecules to see if certain chemical reactions give birth to life. If life emerges “easily” from these conditions, it could be common throughout the universe.

A few months ago, Kreisel showed an electrified 483-hp Mercedes G-Class. Now, the Austrian company has revealed an entirely different kind of electric vehicle... a 1967 Porsche 910 that channels electric power toward modern-day supercar performance.

Parents know the phenomenon well. The infant who just won't go to sleep at night, in a cozy haven of slumber, will nod off in the car as if the subject of a master hypnotist. Instead of a 3 a.m. car ride, Ford has a better idea: a bed that mimics the feeling, sound and light of riding in a car.