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The year was a big one for high-tech, high-price supercar hardware, seeing the restart of several iconic lineages, extravagant special- edition birthday presents, and numerous all-new start-ups with intriguing ideas. Many of these cars really scream out with wildly unique styling.

Scientists in Australia have reported the discovery of huge freshwater reserves preserved in aquifers under the world's oceans. Such reserves are to be found under continental shelves off Australia, China, North America and South Africa.

DARPA is preparing to deliver the new Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) to Western Australia, where it will help track small satellites and space debris orbiting the Earth when it becomes operational in 2016.

Leddar, short for LED Detection and Ranging, is a new type of detection and ranging sensor that uses LEDs to detect objects and determine their distance. While the Leddar is low resolution, it is also low cost, and it may find new applications in vehicles, traffic management, robotics and safety.

There was a time when there were only a few actioncams on the market, but in the past several years the product category has exploded. In order to help buyers make a little more sense of all the choices, here's a side-by-side comparison of eight of today's more prominent actioncams.

RoboCV's X-MOTION system, which is described as an intellectual pilot system, has been rolled out in a Samsung factory in the Russian city of Kaluga where warehouse vehicles can now zip around the factory floor autonomously.

Studio Fuksas' Terminal 3 building for Shenzhen airport is in the form of a giant "manta ray" and features a "double-honeycomb skin." The largest single public building to date in Shenzhen, the terminal will extend the airport's capacity to 45 million passengers per year.

A good cooler keeps your drinks chilled during a picnic. The Coolest not only does that, but it also mixes up frosty margaritas and plays music for your party. With the docking grill, it even cooks your food. Its designer hopes to get the feature-packed cooler to picnics and tailgates next year.

Notable hacker Samy Kamkar recently built SkyJack, a modified Parrot AR.Drone 2 that automatically seeks out the wireless signals of other UAVs, disconnects them from their owners, and then takes control of them, even while in flight.

If you're disappointed by the image quality of your smartphone camera, but don't want to carry a bulky DSLR around, a mirrorless camera should probably be your next gadget purchase. In this guide Gizmag looks at how some of the best mid-range mirrorless cameras stack up against each other.

The chances of life having once existed on Mars got a boost this week and there was good news for astronauts on any future expeditions to the red Planet. On Monday, NASA announced six papers presented to the autumn meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.

Moon Express has revealed the design of its MX-1 entry for the Google Lunar X Prize competition. Not a one-trick pony, the MX-1 is intended as the first of a series of robotic spacecraft that can carry out a multitude of tasks in Earth orbit as well as in deep space.