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Take a stroll through a Shenzhen Market in China, and you'll probably see more than a few Apple knockoffs from no-name (or "white box") companies. But what happens when one of China's biggest tech companies has a go at the iPad mini? Meet Xiaomi's Mi Pad.

Not so long ago, self health monitoring was largely limited to weighing ourselves and sticking a thermometer under our tongue. For everything else we went to the family doctor. Enter Cue – a device that allows users to run medical diagnostics at home.

Medical physicists at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center are latching on to advances in the computational speed of graphics processing units (GPUs) to drastically reduce the time required to calculate the radiation dose delivered to a tumor during proton radiotherapy.

Defense and information systems specialist Exelis has announced the successful test of a new airborne long-wave infrared (LWIR), hyperspectral (HSI) maneuverable sensor that can be aimed in multiple directions and is capable of detecting explosives, gases and dangerous chemicals.

Google’s new Camera app for Android aims to address one of the greatest advantages that big-sensor, big-pricetag DSLR cameras have over phone cameras – the ability to blur out the background and achieve a bokeh effect. Very cool.

The New York Auto Show is one of North America’s premier automotive related events, and Gizmag was on the ground to investigate and capture some of the show’s most interesting debuts and reveals. Here’s our first-hand look at some of the highlights and the key designs from the show.

Building a brand new energy-efficient home is all well and good, but it often makes more sense to renovate an existing property. The Casa 31_4 Room House was recently transformed from a 1930s property into a modern passively-cooled home.

BAE Systems and Queen Mary’s School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science in London have come up with a flat lens that works like a conventional curved lens, yet without any reduction in bandwidth performance.

Designed by Diana Yacht Design and built by LYNX Yachts in Zaandam, the Netherlands, Yacht-X-Tender (YXT ONE) is the first in a new line of bespoke pocket support bots designed to fill the needs of yacht owners whose main craft isn’t quite big enough to hold all the toys.

That pounding in your chest when the action gets intense in a video game or movie takes on a new dimension with the KOR-FX 4DFX, a lightweight vest that translates audio into subtle vibrations that are meant to help you feel where explosions and gunshots occur as well as to immerse you in the world.

Do you get frustrated filling out those online forms with jumbled letters to prove that you're human, only to get them wrong? They're called CAPTCHA puzzles and are designed to be difficult for computers to crack. Google's Street View technology, however, can decipher them with 99 percent accuracy.

Late last week, Nissan unveiled the latest version of its Murano crossover at the New York International Auto Show. It offers some appealing new features, and is reportedly 16 percent more aerodynamic than the previous model.