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The Pentax 645Z claims to be faster and more versatile than most other medium-format cameras, but what is it like to use? Gizmag recently got some hands-on time with the big camera to see what it can do.

Virgin Galactic has has decided which fuel will be used in the first passenger-carrying flights of its suborbital spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo. The solid fuel grains that will power the world’s largest operational hybrid rocket will be a thermoset plastic similar to nylon.

For many residents today, the idea of fitting furniture into a 600 sq.ft condo or apartment has become a compact reality. Now a team from MIT’s architectural program have come up with the CityHome project; a versatile appliance-like solution, designed to increase usable space by two or three times.

Graphene is very thin, incredibly strong, electrically conductive and chemically inert. It's also rather difficult to work with, however. That may be about to change, as researchers have devised a new method of large-scale graphene production.

While many e-bikes simply feature a motor that augments the rider's pedaling power, some really take the whole "electronics" thing and run (or roll) with it. The upcoming Visiobike is just such a machine.

A group out of Napa, California, is working on the design of a flying jet-propelled car with four seats. The project is called GF7 and combines a business jet with a luxury automobile for what might be the ultimate exotic car.

Athletes are always looking for ways to improve their performance, and wearable devices allow them to track exactly what they need to work on. Smash is a new device that its creator hopes will offer these benefits specifically to tennis players.

There was a time when 2-in-1 laptop-cum-tablets were a niche tool and a bit clunky to use. Quickly, however, they've become much slicker and will surely become a mainstream device in the future. Presumably of the same mind, Toshiba has just released two such pieces of kit.

With its swept-wing design and narrowed front end, there’s no mistaking the DeltaWing for anything else on the track. Now the company has unveiled a newly rendered DeltaWing concept, that it hopes will take the radical design and turn it into a high efficiency, road-going passenger car for four.

Scientists have recently experimented with a combination of biological and photonic quantum mechanical states to form a new half-light half-matter particle called the “polariton.” It could help realize fully synthetic systems that replicate biological photosynthesis.

NASA has launched a high-altitude sounding rocket to capture ultraviolet starlight using a spectrograph, to determine the composition of interstellar dust clouds and their likelihood of being the future birthplace of new stars.

Microsoft has moved to break down language barriers and make talking to our international friends even more convenient. The company has unveiled Skype Translator, an application for its chat software that translates speech between different languages in (almost) real time.