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Five years ago, we first heard about a diesel engine that had been modified to run on an unlikely-sounding mixture of diesel and gasoline. Now, its creators have installed another diesel/gas engine in a 2009 Saturn.

Like it or not, the word phablet is here to stay – and so are the supersized smartphones that it describes. Though the category was once synonymous with the Galaxy Note, there are now enough competing phablets to make your decision difficult. Let's compare the best phablets you can buy today.

A newly produced material is believed to be the "blackest" ever created. Vantablack is a pure carbon coating and absorbs 99.96 percent of incident radiation (solar energy as it hits the material's surface). Manufacturer Surrey NanoSystems believes that is the highest such figure ever recorded.

The LeapTV from LeapFrog is an educational gaming system for children which uses Wii-like motion controllers and a Kinect-esque motion-sensing camera to put children into the game.

The price for collectible Ferrari's has consistently been on the rise and now another impressive bidding scenario is shaping up as one of only three 1964 Ferrari 275 GTB/C Speciale’s goes up for auction next month.

If you place pretty much any type of solid material in the ocean, barnacles can firmly attach themselves to it. So, what do barnacles know that we don't? Scientists have recently discovered the answer, and it could lead to advances in human technologies.

A group of British artists have conceptualized a giant solar harvesting floating duck as part of the 2014 Land Art Generator Initiative Copenhagen design competition. Energy Duck has been designed to generate clean electricity for the local residents of Copenhagen.

Generating renewable electricity at home or in commercial buildings is becoming increasingly viable. WindStream Technologies has installed what it says is the world's largest wind-solar hybrid array on an office roof in Kingston, Jamaica. The array is expected to generate over 106,000 kWh annually.

Drawing inspiration from the social issues plaguing much of the Brazil's 2014 World Cup, a pair of French architects have developed a proposal to re-invent the stadiums as complexes for low-cost housing that could provide affordable living for 20,000 Brazilian people.

A project at EPFL's Mobile Communications Laboratory is looking to take advantage of the fact that people are rarely without their mobile phones by developing a drone that would help rescuers search for victims of natural disasters by locating their phones.

LG’s latest handset isn't looking to rewrite the Android book, but it does want to make it easier to read with its huge, ultra-sharp display. Read on as Gizmag takes an in-depth look at the LG G3.

The Modulus.002 is a boutique polyphonic sound machine that mixes classic analog sound creation techniques with some digital magic to give musicians access to the kind of sounds made famous by vintage instruments of the 70s and 80s.