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When accomplished string picker Bow Thayer couldn't find an instrument that catered for finger-pickin' and steel slidin' and banjo rollin' all in one place, he designed his own. Meet the Bojotar.

3D printing technology may be some way off producing fully functional household appliances, but tiny steps are being made toward helping us out with our domestic duties. Hoover has today unveiled two designs for vacuum accessories, freely available to all through online marketplace Thingiverse.

2014 wasn’t the year that drones first entered the consumer lexicon, but it did see the notion of using these vehicles to our advantage become much more palatable. Let’s have a look at some of the year’s surprising drone projects which promise to shake things up in exciting new ways.

If a new crowdfunding campaign is successful, yet another "smart bike" will soon be available to consumers. Called the BiCi, it was designed by a team from Shanghai-based AOAO Studio after a four-month period of focusing on "what the perfect bike should be."

Moto Hint is a Bluetooth headset that works with any phone, but with Motorola's latest phones it becomes a hands-free command center for your mobile life. Gizmag has a full review.

We're all familiar with hybrid cars, but hybrid planes are virtually unheard of. Now though, researchers from the University of Cambridge, UK, have partnered with Boeing to test what they say is the first hybrid-electric aircraft. It is said to use 30 percent less fuel than a gas-only equivalent.

NASA wants to use the unreal gripping power of gecko feet to reach out and grab space junk in orbit. The technology has already been successfully tested under weightless conditions.

If the object is quite large, or if a lot of them are being made, paint can add considerably to its weight and/or production costs. With that in mind, researchers have created a new lightweight, low-cost coloring technology for both rough and smooth surfaces.

Russia's Soyuz space capsules may not be the only option for ISS-bound astronauts for too much longer, with NASA announcing that it has approved the first milestone for the manned version of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft.

Mechanic Advisors’ new product is designed to make the appearance of the dreaded check engine light that little bit less disheartening, by giving car owners a portal into the health of their vehicle.

In the developing world small-scale gold mining and smelting under primitive conditions poses a major health hazard. To help alleviate this, a team from Argonne National Laboratory and the US EPA are developing a prototype mercury capture system (MCS) to reduce heavy metal pollution.

Google has been developing autonomous car technology since 2010. Now, it has unveiled the first complete prototype of its self-driving car. The company expects the vehicle to be hitting the streets of California some time in 2015.