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Looking to draw our eyes away from our smartphone screen and onto the world around us is Dhairya Dand, whose SuperShoes insoles use tickling patterns to communicate navigation services from your smartphone functions to your feet.

At the Beijing Auto Show on Sunday, Mercedes Benz took the wraps off its new Concept Coupé SUV. Building on the compact GLA SUV launched last year, the new concept flags the company's intentions to carve out a new class merging on and off-road vehicle design.

The latest Bugatti special edition brings a little more intrigue than the average package, recalling what Bugatti calls "one of the first ever street legal super cars."

Porsche has chosen Beijing to release the newest additions to its GTS stable. By premiering the Boxster GTS and Cayman GTS at this year’s Auto China motor show the manufacturer has made clear an intention to capitalize on the upward trend of Chinese sales of high-end sports vehicles.

One of the great facts about bicycle design is that there are at least two or three intriguing alternatives for every established way of doing things. To that end, COFA Engineering recently showcased its own unique take on bicycle suspension, known as the NOAH system.

We've seen a number of tsunami safety pod designs emerge in recent years and this example from the Tajima Motor Company, the Tsunami Floating Shelter SAFE+, aims to provide a last resort option for emergency workers who have left it too late to escape.

For the last 3 years, an Australian design team has been working on a multi-purpose powered board called the BajaBoard, with a 12 kW of electric grunt, adjustable independent suspension and LED lights front and back. The project has now headed to Kickstarter for the final push toward production.

As different human enhancement technologies advance at different rates, they bleed into society gradually and without fanfare. What's more, they will increasingly necessitate discussion about areas that are often overlooked – what are the logistics and ethics of being superhuman?

Charitable organization the Wellcome Trust hopes to develop the ability to manufacture blood outside of the body. Last week, it announced that test subjects should begin receiving transfusions of blood made with lab-grown red blood cells by late 2016.

If four drive wheels are better than two for off-roading, it should follow that six are better than four. Six drive wheels provide the formula behind the new Can-Am Outlander 6x6 1000 XT work and recreation vehicle, creating a workhorse that can haul and speed with a full half-dozen clawing wheels.

Anyone interested in the potential of carrying around lightweight, powdered alcohol that only needs a little water to become a cocktail now has reason to be excited about a new product called Palcohol – so long as it manages to make it through the final regulatory hurdles in the United States.

At Auto China 2014 in Beijing, Shenzhen BYD Daimler New Technology Co., Ltd presented the world première of the production model of its Denza; the first all-electric vehicle for the Chinese market produced by the first Sino-German electric car joint venture.