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Austria-based Gerhard Feldbacher recently built a tiny house, named Simple Home, that's designed to strike a happy balance between portability and size.

Lolling about while a computer gets you through traffic has its attractions for many of us and there has been little discussion about the potential downsides of a driverless future, but a new study has pointed out some potential flaws in this looming auto utopia.

With one spray on each side of your neck, Sprayable claims that its Sprayable Sleep, a follow-up to the successful Sprayable Energy, will enter your body naturally and put you right to sleep. Gizmag had the chance to put this insomnia-killer to the test.

OpenBiome is paying donors for their doo-doo in an effort to gather more materials for fecal microbiota transplants (FMTs), a relatively new, but 90 percent effective, treatment for the debilitating Clostridium difficile infection (CDI).

Students from the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) have built a simplified replica of Gaudi's famous Sagrada Familia basilica, using ice and wood fibers. Fittingly, like the actual Barcelona landmark, the model was incomplete by the time it was due to open.

Researchers have devised a method of tricking the body's cells into identifying customized soap bubbles as harmful cells. This serves to trigger an immune response from the body and could lead to new possibilities in the delivery of drugs and vaccines to battle viruses, cancer and other diseases.

We managed to get our hands on the Zik 2.0 Bluetooth headphones on launch back in November, but we've now donned them on international flights and long days in the office and consider ourselves a little more qualified to comment on their strengths and shortcomings.

Tokyo Auto Salon – the slightly off-the-wall sibling of the far more staid bi-annual Tokyo Motor Show – is part showcase for the Japanese custom car industry and part theatrical show. Here's our look at some of the colorful highlights from the 2015 event.

3D motion capture technology has advanced dramatically in recent times, but entrepreneur Mazen Elbawab reckons you need not enter a virtual world to move like your favourite athletes. His Heddoko sensor-laden sportswear capture the body's motion, offering feedback on how to play more like the pros.

Researchers at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, have shown that a probiotic treatment involving Lactobacillus rhamnosus, has given children with peanut allergies the ability to safely eat peanuts.

Glasses with transitional lenses are a neat idea in theory, but they have some shortcomings in practice. That's why researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing an alternative – clear eyeglasses that can be manually tinted into sunglasses, by the user.

Although blind people are generally capable of going about things unaided, there are times when seeing something is a necessity. A new mobile app aims to help the blind in those situations. Be My Eyes connects individuals in need of visual assistance with sighted volunteers via a video call.