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What do you do if your car's speedometer suddenly fails? If you're wearing a Breva Génie 03 wristwatch, you stick it out the window and carry on, as the latest in the Breva line is claimed to be the first watch to include a pop-up mechanical speedometer.

The route planned for Solar Impulse 2 round-the-world flight has been unveiled. The first solar-powered plane capable of day and night flight, the Si2 will spend 25 days aloft spread over a period of five months as it traverses 35,000 km (22,000 mi) with stops at 12 locations around the globe.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft is currently in the final stages of its historic mission to place a satellite in orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres. The mission will take 16 months and will see the explorer capture detailed measurements of Ceres, greatly improving our knowledge of the solar system.

When the sap from plants such as sugar cane is extracted for commercial use, what's left over is a fibrous material known as bagasse. Now, Mexican startup Plastinova is using agave bagasse from the tequila industry to make a wood-like material, although it's also incorporating recycled plastic.

For some people – adults included – there's nothing quite as cool-looking as a chopper bicycle. The things aren't all that practical for commuting, however. Well, that's where the Chop-E comes in. It's an electric scooter, modeled after the bikes that would have made you the hero of the 7-11.

VTT Technical Centre of Finland is aiming to bring solar energy into the realm of interior design by developing a new method of printing both decorative graphics and functional components onto flexible organic solar panels.

After testing, tweaking and refining the technology with the help of more than 40 teachers for over 4 years, Orange Music Education says that its Musicboard interactive music theory teaching tool is now ready for launch.

Micro-motor powered nanobots created by UC, San Diego researchers, and propelled by gas bubbles made from a reaction with the contents of the stomach in which they were deposited, have been successfully deployed in the body of a live creature for the very first time.

For a plane that's now being flown by the original crews' grandchildren, the B-52 is still going strong. For its latest upgrade, Boeing has installed a new weapons bay launcher that will allow the venerable bomber to carry smart weapons inside and reduce fuel consumption.

Spira4u recently announced that is had begun pilot production of its three-wheeled urban vehicle. Gizmag's Loz Blain took time out from the floor of NAIAS in Detroit to take the Spira4u for a spin.

Sweden's Teenage Engineering, best known for its versatile but pricey OP-1 synthesizer (which starts at US$849.00), has unveiled a line of three new synths dubbed Pocket Operator. The pocketable instruments will set you back just $59 when they launch.

Researchers have developed a silver nanowire sensor that has the potential to improve long-term patient health monitoring. The new sensor is as accurate as those used in hospitals, and thanks to its dry nature and flexibility, is well suited to monitoring when the patient is moving around.