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NASA has announced the winners of its 3-D Printed Habitat Challenge Design Competition. The contest sought architectural concepts for how 3D printing might be used to create shelters on the Red Planet. The overall winner, Ice House, would be built using the planet's predicted abundant water supply.​

After spending some time with the plush leather pads of Wilkins and Bowers P5 Wireless headphones pressed against our ears, we've got some thoughts on how they stack up.

Imagine for a moment if we could build a complete wiring diagram of a human brain – to map in detail every one of the hundred trillion or so synapses and roughly hundred billion neurons together with all the tiniest supporting mechanisms. What might that mean, and would it even be possible?

The Chameleon Pen is a single pen capable of producing multiple color tones. Using a special mixing nib filled with toner, the Chameleon Pen is able to produce different shades, from light to dark and back again.

Following in the footsteps of recent desktop CNC machines like Carvey and X-Carve, the Tormach PCNC 440 mill is designed to fit on benchtops and lower the barrier of entry to real CNC.

Russian media artist, circuit bender and musician Dmitry Morozov has created Ra, a digital sound generator that uses a laser to scan the uneven surface of the pyrite sun and produce synthesized sounds.

Inflatable robots might just be the way to go. If not their whole bodies, then at least their hands. Scientists at Disney Research have made steps in this direction, by creating inflatable graspers that excel at handling delicate objects without breaking them.

Today's proliferation of niche housing types includes dwellings that are tiny, modular, prefabricated and inexpensive. Belgian firm Skilpod is producing homes that are all of these things. With the right equipment, they can even be zero energy or energy positive.

The largest "tree of life" ever created has been released, spanning 3.5 billion years and 2.3 million species. Compiled from almost 500 existing smaller trees, it's been described as a "Wikipedia" for such evolutionary maps.

If you're bursting in and out of shadowy forests, the slow reaction time of photochromic glasses just can't keep up. That's where Uvex's Variotronic glasses come in, which change tint in just a tenth of a second. We recently tried a pair out.

From the world's fastest jet-powered shopping trolley to the world's fastest motorized shed, records were falling left and right last weekend at the final Straightliners Top Speed event of the year in the UK.

After being stored in a shed in Australia for more than 50 years, an extremely rare Harley-Davidson racing motorcycle has gone to auction and fetched a record price.