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Does the smartphone world need a BlackBerry keyboard in 2018? That's the biggest question posed by the arrival of the new BlackBerry Key2, an otherwise unremarkable handset running Android 8.1. New Atlas has been playing around with the phone for a week, and here's what we think.

A massive whale, constructed out of five tons of reclaimed plastic waste, is currently leaping out of a canal in Belgium. Developed by architecture and design firm STUDIOKCA, the impressive sculpture is designed to bring attention to the immense volumes of plastic waste swimming in our oceans.

Part chair, part hammock, the SkyFloat adventure chair could be your ultimate travel companion. It packs up small, carries anywhere and strings up easily into a zero-gravity-style hammock chair wherever you are. Hang it from a single point and while away the hours in a cozy suspended lounge.

​In the movie "Predator," Arnold Schwarzenegger hid from an alien's night vision system by covering himself in mud. He might have found things much easier, however, if he'd had access to a newly-developed thermal camouflage material.

Toyota or Bentley? It's not typically a question that needs to be asked, but it is one that you might ponder in Japan, where Toyota offers the Century. This luxury flagship has undergone its first full redesign in two decades and hits the market a revamped, chauffeur-style sedan.

MacGyver is alive and well and living in Austin Texas, where researchers have come up with a simple and affordable chemical weapons detector, made out of an iPhone, a UV lamp, a standard 96-well test plate and … a bunch of Lego bricks. ​

​When you're practising yoga in a class, there's an instructor who can guide you through each pose. When you're doing it on your own, however, you pretty much just have to hope you're getting it right. That's why Nadi X "smart" yoga pants were created – they're like an instructor that you wear.

Leisure Travel Vans has been feeling the demand for a motorhome with bicycle garage and has answered with the Wonder RTB. In addition to carrying two bicycles, the Ford Transit motorhome hits the road with a smart entertainment system, flexible bedroom and versatile furnishings throughout.

‘Oumuamua is the first interstellar visitor ever detected passing through our Solar System, and while it was originally classed as an asteroid after its discovery, astronomers have now updated the label. ‘Oumuamua, it turns out, is a comet after all, but it’s unlike any other known comet.

​Lock up your flywheels, folks, an American inventor is coming after them. RK Transportation is working on an idea that replaces an engine's flywheel with a lightweight rotor with embedded magnets, to apply pulses of electric torque just when they're needed in search of easier acceleration.

​After travelling for over three and a half years through the hostile environment of outer space, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA’s) Hayabusa 2 spacecraft has successfully made orbit around the asteroid Ryugu.

Although you may sniff meat to see if it's OK to eat, doing so is a subjective method of detecting spoilage, as it's dependent on the sensitivity of your sense of smell. Scientists have now developed a more objective alternative, in the form of a gas sensor that communicates with your smartphone.