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Apple's new MacBook is lighter than the Air, with a Retina Display to match the Pro. But does the MacBook Air still have some advantages? Let's compare their features and specs.

In hot, dry areas of the world, collecting enough rainwater to grow crops can be difficult. Another potential source of water for collection, however, can be dew. Roots Up has designed a greenhouse to collect dew in Gondar, Ethiopia, as part of a scheme to help local farmers with low-tech solutions.

As a taste of things to come at next month's Hannover Messe trade show in Germany, Festo has revealed three new biomimetic creations: a small colony of ants, a gripper modeled on a chameleon's tongue and some fine flyers in the shape of some big blue butterflies.

Gizmag straps on the Garmin Vivosmart fitness tracker band to see whether an activity tracker with smartwatch aspirations is a smart idea. We put the band through its paces at logging our exercise and delivering emails to our wrist.

Volvo has long traded on its reputation for passenger safety, but it is also looking out for cyclists and pedestrians. Its newly announced Life Paint is aimed at making cyclists easier to see at night, by acting as an invisible reflective spray that glows under the glare of a car's headlights.

Ever since HTC rebooted its smartphone lineup with 2013's One M7, the company has been making some of the best smartphones money can buy. But with an improving field of competitors, is the company's third "One" good enough? Join Gizmag, as we review the new HTC One M9.

The mechanical metronome has long been a vital tool for musicians, but it's limited. Berlin-based startup Soundbrenner's answer is the Pulse wearable metronome, which keeps the beat by vibration or light and can be programmed for multiple players.

Researchers from the University of California at Irvine are developed a stick-on covering that could let soldiers hide from infrared light. It utilizes the same protein that's found in squids' color-changing skin.

Californian architecture firm Morphosis (headed by Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Thom Mayne), recently released plans for a skyscraper in Vals, Switzerland that would be the tallest building in Europe. So why is it based in a sleepy Alpine village?

An eco-town described as the UK's "most sustainable development" is moving closer to being occupied. The first residents are expected to move into North West Bicester later this year. Planning permission has also just been granted for up to 2,600 homes in the next stage of the project.

Land Rover has tossed out the Autobiography Black as its flagship car. At the 2015 New York International Auto Show, the automaker will replace it with the new Range Rover SVAutobiography.

"It's an interesting thing with passive solar design," muses Lionel Buckett, "that a cave facing north is probably the first passive solar building that humans ever lived in." And that's what this master builder has created, on a spectacular 600-acre property in Australia's Blue Mountains.