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​Sphero is probably best known for its BB-8 rolling droid, but has recently been aiming its products at future programmers and makers. The company has opted to take to Kickstarter for its latest bot, which has been designed to be tweaked and hacked by adult hobbyists and young roboticists alike.​

​Daydreaming, or just letting your mind wander off from the current moment occupies our thoughts for a large part of every day. However, a study has revealed patients suffering from a kind of early-onset dementia may have lost the ability to do this and seem perpetually “stuck in the moment”.​

Forget the camper van, Oasis Campervans gives us the minivan-camper. Designed around the Toyota Sienna, its two-sleeper camper conversion brings outdoor cooking and indoor sleeping, lounging and dining capabilities. It even removes easily so you can use the van for everyday driving.

With the new Nissan x Opus camping trailer, Nissan shows how EV batteries can fully power a non-engined camper. The Leaf-derived Energy ROAM battery pack gives the innovative, award-winning inflatable Air Opus six-sleeper enough juice to keep campers comfortable and fed for up to a week.

To many of us, the great white shark is a mysterious and scary creature from the deep – but now it’s a little less mysterious. Scientists have sequenced the entire genome of the great white shark, revealing a few clues as to how these animals are so good at healing wounds and resisting cancer.

​Raising boats out of the water on hydrofoils makes them much more comfortable and efficient – and this French design uses electric propulsion and an automatic self-stabilizing system to give you clean, quiet and sexy water transport.

OPEN Architecture blended architecture with nature for its UCCA Dune Art Museum and now the firm does the same again with the Chapel of Sound. Now under construction in China, the remarkable-looking concert hall seems a natural extension of the landscape and takes the form of a rocky outcrop.

Most people think that the Earth's atmosphere stops a bit above 62 miles, but a new study based on observations by the US-European SOHO satellite shows that it actually extends as far 391,000 mi (630,000 km) or 50 times the Earth's diameter. This makes the Moon a very high altitude aircraft.

​Here's an extraordinary photography project worth keeping an eye on: the Lensrentals team has been working on building the widest angle fisheye lens in existence, a C-4 Optics 4.9mm, f/3.5 hyper-fisheye monster with a 270-degree field of view - that's right, it can see behind itself.

Toyota completely redesigned the Avalon Hybrid for the 2019 model year, giving it new bodywork, a new face, and a better interior. These cosmetic differences just get started, though, with the Avalon also seeing significant changes to its chassis and hybrid powertrain. Which prove the hybrid out.

NASA has been developing a solution to drone traffic over the past four years, and is now moving ahead with its final phase of testing where unmanned aircraft will put through their most complex demonstrations yet.

​Last week Samsung revealed it would cease production on Blu-ray players for the US market. Despite 2018 recording all-time high home entertainment spending, sales of physical media such have been dramatically declining over the past few years. Is this the beginning of the end for physical media?​