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Wearable electronic devices are starting to save some battery power by harvesting an energy source that’s right underneath them: human body heat. Now a team from North Carolina State University has developed a system using liquid metal components, making it flexible, efficient and self-healing.

There are solar-powered boats in operation around the world, they tend to be the exception rather than the rule. Soel Yachts wants to play a part in championing cleaner modes of water transportation, starting with the SoelCat 12 electric catamaran launching in New Zealand this week. ​​

Physicists have created the brightest light ever produced on Earth, and it could be the first step towards more powerful X-rays. The researchers focused their Diocles Laser to a brightness a billion times that of the Sun, and found a change in the fundamental physics of how light enables vision.

Resulting in reduced or limited vision, Nystagmus affects nearly one in 400 people, and is euphemistically referred to as “dancing eyes”. A new procedure to treat the condition has been developed involving implanting magnets behind a person’s eyes to stabilize the uncontrollable eye movements.

​After years of development, German conglomerate ThyssenKrupp has successfully demonstrated its new cable-free, Willy Wonka-style elevator concept, moving multiple cars vertically and horizontally in a single shaft using a magnet-based drive system similar to that in Maglev trains.

​It was back in 2009 that we first heard about the Copenhagen Wheel, a motor-equipped rear bicycle wheel that could turn an existing bicycle into an e-bike. The years since saw some delays, but as of this April it finally became commercially available. We recently tried the wheel out for ourselves.

A professor at MIT has completed an 18-year-long origami quest to develop a universal algorithm that could generate the paper-folding patterns required to produce any 3D structure with the smallest number of seams possible.

Chris Riebschlager and his team were recently asked to come up with something special for a two day music festival earlier this month in Kansas City called Boulevardia. The designers came up with a 12-foot high, 500 lb installation shaped like an electric guitar that visitors could actually play.

If you’ve ever used your phone in sunlight only to see a reflection of your own face, moths might have your back. Inspired by the natural nanostructures that keep the insect’s eyes from being shiny, a team from the University of Central Florida has developed an antireflective film for phone screens.

Nintendo has announced a follow-up to the Classic Mini NES. The Super NES Classic Edition, which recreates the 16-bit console of the early 1990s as a small HDMI-compatible box preloaded with 21 games, including a long-lost sequel that never saw the light of day.

Laser weapons have been tested on ships, planes, and even armored vehicles, but Raytheon has pushed the envelope further again by successfully testing a high-energy laser mounted on an Apache AH-64 attack helicopter and locking onto and hitting an unmanned target.

Phat Scooters may look similar to the Scrooser from 2013, but they give the rider's legs a rest by offering a twist grip to kick in the hub motor. This means that the Phatty user can sit or stand and zip along without breaking a sweat. The Phat models are cheaper, too.​