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The Zero S and Zero DS both share the same platform in terms of frame, motor and the giant monolith battery pack. Despite the fact that they're significantly down on power compared to the wild Zero SR, this pair of electrics offer a surprisingly good time.

VTT Technical Centre of Finland unveiled its decorative, mass-producible organic photovoltaic (OPV) leaves in January. Now, the company has followed the logical path and come up with an energy-harvesting tree that generates electricity from a variety of sources.

Zrro is an Android-based games console currently looking for crowdfunding support. It offers something a little different from the competition, with a touchpad controller that mimics touchscreen functionality on the big screen.

Leaning into corners has to be one of the greatest joys of riding a bike. Adding more wheels may increase stability, but it also strips that pleasure away. Unless it can tilt too. Jacek Skopinski has developed an interesting four-wheeled electric scooter called the EV4 that does just that.

The Rinspeed autonomous vehicle concept, dubbed Budii, has been created as a platform to showcase the latest in self-driving vehicle technology. Built on a revamped BMW i3 chassis, Budii will be unveiled at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show.

Researchers at Brigham Young University (BYU) and MIT have made a new important step toward the next generation of high-bandwidth, color-accurate holographic video displays that could span the size of an entire room at one tenth the cost of state of the art devices.

25 years ago Voyager 1 turned back towards our planet, and captured one of the most profound images ever taken of our planet – the pale blue dot. In its scope, it captured every human being that has ever lived and ever died, every wonder and every labor that mankind had then achieved.

The tying of shoelaces may not be the most difficult thing that most of us do each day, but that nonetheless hasn't stopped people from inventing no-tie shoelace systems. One of the latest, Shnap + Laces, has the user just snap the ends of their laces onto the tops of their shoes.

In lieu of an effective medical test, physicians rely on assessments of behavioural patterns and social skills to diagnose autism. But new research has identified biomarkers in the saliva of children with the condition, potentially paving the way for earlier, and more reliable, diagnoses.

The northern lights are more than one of nature's most awe inspiring sights, they are an electromagnetic phenomenon that can adversely affect power grids and communications and navigation systems. Researchers from the University of Oslo have flown a rocket through the lights to take a closer look.

While it stops short of all-out sportsbike performance, the SR still unleashes more torque than any petrol-powered superbike on the market. Enough, as it turns out, to catch an experienced motorcycle tester by surprise. Enjoy the last of our 2015 Zero fleet reviews.

Design studio Emergingobjects has come up with a simple way to cool homes, build them with 3D-printed porous bricks called Cool Bricks which can be filled with water to bring down temperatures.