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Jony Ive and Marc Newson have created a one-of-a-kind Leica digital camera which will be sold at auction to raise money for the (RED) charity. The camera is based around the Leica M, but features a unique aluminum body and shell. It took 561 models and nearly 1000 prototype parts to create.

The race to the car that drives itself continues to heat up. Last week, Toyota provided a look at its Automated Highway Driving Assist, a feature that should be available within the next two or three years.

As the big tech companies prepare to woo you with upcoming smartwatches, they'll be doing battle with fitness tracking devices that some customers already have on their wrists. One of the most popular wrist trackers, Fitbit, just got a new member of the family, the Fitbit Force.

The US Navy's top SEAL, four-star Admiral William McRaven, is pushing hard for a modern suit of armor called the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (TALOS). Though not exactly an Iron Man suit, it's that ballpark.

The SEIL LED grid signaling system for cyclists features bright left or right arrows, stopping signals or custom animated text messages that shine through the fabric at the back of the bag at the press of a button on a handlebar-mounted wireless controller.

Delft University's Nuon Solar Team has won the Challenger class of the World Solar Challenge. Its solar-powered Nuna 7 vehicle arrived in Adelaide at 10:03 a.m. on the morning of the fifth day of the event, crossing Australia from north coast to south in a total of a little over 33 hours.

Back in 1965, Lee Breedlove set the women's land speed record on Utah’s Salt Lake Flats with a speed of 308.51 mph (496.49 km/h). That record stood for 48 years until this month, when Jessi Combs took her 52,000 hp Supersonic Speed Challenger to a speed of 392.954 mph (632.39 km/h).

Far be it for we at Gizmag to inadvertently reveal the secret identity of a crime-fighting superhero, but let's just say that if Poland had its own version of the Dark Knight, then he'd probably live in this house.

Holodeck, anyone? Researchers at Bristol University are developing a system known as UltraHaptics that uses ultrasonic force fields to project the tactile sensations of objects in midair. Currently used for a haptic computer interface, the system might eventually enable touchable holograms.

Moog Music has announced a new range of versatile and expressive analog effects stomps for electric guitar and bass. The five Minifoogers are all hand-assembled at the company's Asheville factory, and feature a CV-controlled expression pedal input.

Paper may not be quite so dead after all. By simply rubbing or tapping one of Disney Research's new Paper Generators, users can illuminate LEDs, sound buzzers, or even activate e-ink displays.

On October 8, three teams in various parts of the world participated in an unprecedented simultaneous test of three experimental spacesuits as part of World Space Walk 2013, which aims to set standards for developing suits for the future exploration of the planet Mars.