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Many questions remain over how the human-carrying Ehang 184 drone will function in the real world, but at least some of these may soon be answered with the company winning governmental approval to test the vehicle in Nevada airspace. ​

We've finally got eyes on the first consumer smartphone that supports Project Tango, Google's ambitious augmented reality platform that gives your mobile a sense of its own surroundings. It's called the Lenovo PHAB2 Pro, and has been unveiled together with two mid-range handsets from the same line.

Four new elements recently added to the periodic table have finally been given names suitable to their discovery and scientific field of relevance. Now the final decision as to whether these names become permanent has been opened to pubic comment.

New Zealand lists them as a critically threatened species, so catching a Bryde's whale in action is a pretty rare event. One team of marine scientists has not only sighted the endangered cetacean, but done so through the eye of a camera drone, meaning we can all have a gander too.

Everyone from Renault to VW, with a few Russians in between, has taken a crack at repackaging the city car. For some reason though, most of these "reinventions" still have four wheels. Canadian company Electra Meccanica has joined Elio Motors in asking why, with its three-wheeled Solo.

The recently-announced ONVI Prophix toothbrush has a built-in camera that lets users stream video from inside their mouth as they brush. Philips doesn't go that far with its new brush, but has instead kitted it out with sensors that track brushing on a 3D mouth-map to encourage thorough oral care.

As proven last year, electric cars are tough to beat ​up twists and turns of Pikes Peak. Honda will certainly be hoping e-power is a winning formula when it takes on this year's Race to the Clouds in three versions of the new NSX, one of which will be exclusively powered by batteries.

Physicists have created a new set of energy-carrying particles dubbed "topological plexcitons" that show promise in greatly enhancing energy flows for solar cells and nanoscale photonic circuitry.

For years researchers have believed that supermassive black holes only subsisted on a diet of hot gas. New observations of a galaxy about a billion light years away though, show that cold, clumpy cosmic rain will do just fine to fill a black hole's gaping maw.

Regardless of how thorough your mouth-care regime is, it's not always possible to see just how well – or not – you've cleaned your teeth. ONVI's Prophix toothbrush, however, has a built-in video camera that lets you seen every last nook and cranny of your mouth, if that's what you really want.​

Modular phones aren't yet a thing, per se, but that doesn't mean underdog smartphone-makers aren't trying their darnedest to make them the next big thing. Lenovo's new Moto Z may be the most promising yet.

As Spotify, Tidal and Apple Music continue to grow in audience and influence, the way we listen to our music is becoming inextricably linked to our smartphones and computers. Como Audio, founded by Tivoli Audio founder Tom Devesto, is trying to change that with its Solo and Duetto music systems.