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The Pole Position Sliding Pickup System allows players to change the position of a guitar's pickup relative to the strings on the fly. This means a guitarist can opt for a bright bridge tone or a fat, warm neck tone, or anything inbetween – all with just a light touch from the picking hand.

Hunan Province in China has commissioned a transparent glass bridge spanning 370 m (1,214 ft) over the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon. To add to the excitement, it also plans the world's tallest commercial bungee jump at the bridge's highest point situated around 400 m (1,312 ft) above the ground.

Astell&Kern has announced a new flagship portable audio player aimed squarely at audiophiles and sound professionals, which is capable of 32-bit/384 kHz bit-to-bit decoding without the need for conversion but comes at a rather high cost.

Having previously entered the bicycle lane with its "duo" line of wooden frame bikes produced in a partnership with Renovo, Audi has now switched partners and materials to create the limited edition Audi Sport Racing Bike.

A new class of magnets discovered by scientists working at the University of Maryland (UMD) change in volume whilst in the process of magnetization. As this is fundamentally different to the phenomenon discovered by Joule some 175 years ago, the new magnets are called "non-Joulian."

A company in the UK has used an extract from ants to create a very special type of gin. Each bottle of Anty-gin, as it is known, will be infused with the essence of around sixty-two red wood ant harvested from the forests of Kent.

Dent Bot is a concept design aimed at protecting cars against carpark dents, dings, and scratches by means of a deployable set of buffers that ward off open doors and other hazards.

Japanese technology firm Ricoh has developed a new "energy-generating rubber" that converts pressure and vibration into electric energy with high efficiency, yet is extremely flexible and durable.

Last June, a team led by Olle Lindén embarked on a Kickstarter campaign to bring some new Bluetooth earphones into production. Project backers started to receive their Earins in early October, and they've just recently been made available for non-backers to buy, too. Gizmag was sent some to try out.

Dutch company Revit describes itself as "being on a never-ending quest to develop motorcycle gear that can be taken as far as you want to travel". Within this scope, the promotion of its Spring/Summer 2015 collection in the USA centers around an AWD custom build based on KTM’s 950 Super Enduro.

Tools like email and instant messaging have made it easy for us to share information with people around the world. It can still be overly complicated to share something with people in the same room as us though. Google Tone allows users to share URLs with computers that are within earshot.

A research team at UC San Diego has added hydrogel to its innovative nanosponge technique, first announced in 2013. The addition allows for the method to be used to tackle localized infections without the need for antibiotics.