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Limited battery life is an obstacle that drone companies are seeking to overcome. Berlin-based startup SkySense is looking to play a part, developing a landing pad that doubles as a wireless charging station to promise yet another layer of automation.

Earlier this year, Gizmag featured a concept that proposed using billboards as shelters for the homeless. The company behind Project Gregory suggested that income from advertising on the billboards could subsidize the shelters' running costs. It now hopes to build its first such shelters next year.

Inspired by the 1970s cartoon character Captain Future, the Horological Machine No.6 (HM6) "Space Pirate" not only reflects the style of an outer space adventurer’s ship, but is also piece of high-tech mechanical watchmaking with 475 components – 80 in the case alone.

Patients affected by neurological disorders and athletes facing severe exhaustion have all reported experiencing feeling an invisible and "presence" that is often felt just outside their field of view. Researchers at EPFL have now recreated the same sensations in laboratory experiments.

After a 20-year search, astronomers have uncovered a grand total of 1,900 planets residing outside of the Solar System. According to a new study, the Gaia space observatory could help that figure grow by a factor of ten by the end of the decade, reaching 70,000 planets after 10 years.

With its new flagship device, the UP3, Jawbone introduces a new set of sensors and software features that could finally provide reliable sleep and activity tracking data, succeeding where so many others have fallen short.

British scientists have already looked to principles employed by butterfly wings, as a means of thwarting currency counterfeiters. Now, researchers from China's Southeast University have developed another such technology, that's inspired by a different insect – a color-changing longhorn beetle.

The secret to pulling off long-term manned space missions is biomanufacturing – at least, that's the argument presented by scientists at Berkeley Lab who believe that synthetic biology techniques could produce a significant portion of fuel and augment food and drug supplies during missions to Mars.

Gizmag spent the better part of last week touring the halls of the 2014 SEMA Show in Las Vegas. It's a jungle of the flashy and impractical, with everything from pristine classics preparing for the auction block to outrageous one-offs that will never be seen again.

So you want to take a photograph of a wide scene one minute, and zoom in on a distant subject the next, but you don't want to have the hassle of changing lenses? Well you're in luck, here Gizmag looks at the specifications and features of some of the best superzoom cameras around in 2014.

Migrating salmon in the Pacific Northwest are set to be helped on their journey by Sensor Fish. Developed by PNNL, these devices record and analyze the physical stressors faced by the fish on their trek and provide hydroelectric dams with data to become more fish-friendly.

The world's first solar bike path is set to open in the Netherlands next Wednesday. The SolaRoad will run through Amsterdam's northern suburb of Krommenie and will feature concrete slabs embedded with solar panels to convert energy from the sun into electricity for the grid.