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"Be" is a quite brilliant battery-free brush that uses kinetic energy from a simple twisting motion to offer the benefits of a motorized tooth scrubbing, without the forethought (and waste) involved with its electrified brethren.

Concentrating solar power (CSP) plants can be a key part of a renewable energy strategy, but progress is often focused on larger facilities. Now, engineers from Sandia National Laboratories are improving the efficiency of smaller plants, designing a new receiver that can absorb much more sunlight.

Earlier this year, Mitsubishi broke some hearts when it turned the Eclipse into a small SUV. Now it's committing sacrilege once again, turning the "Evolution" of Lancer Evolution fame into another SUV. The e-Evolution concept does have some hint of sportiness, along with a lively electric 4WD ride.

Untouched by human hands, Boeing's latest airliner has begun production. Watched by an invited crowd, a one-armed robot started drilling into a 108-ft (33-m) long composite wing spar as the first step in assembling the long-range, wide-body 777X prototype.

In a somewhat familiar move, Sony has followed an RX camera refresh with a new full frame mirrorless model – the α7R III. Much faster and more capable than its predecessor, the Mark III delivers speedy burst shooting, features improved autofocus and promises mammoth battery life.​

​Back in 2013, RoboBee became the world's first insect-sized winged robot to demonstrate controlled flight. A couple of years later, it gained the ability to swim. The problem was, it couldn't get back out of the water. Well, thanks to a "spark" of innovation, now it can.

If a Mercedes pickup seems too docile for grunt work, just look at the Yamaha Cross Hub. This truck would likely get you ridiculed straight off any job site, but it's more of a recreational machine meant to get you, three friends and two (Yamaha) motorcycles from the city to the mountains.

CRISPR has revolutionized science affecting everything from medicine to agriculture. Two studies have just been published describing methods that make the process more precise and efficient paving the way for scientists to safely alter mutations that cause thousands of different human diseases.

Last month Walmart put forward a kind of unnerving idea where couriers just go ahead and let themselves in to complete the delivery when the customer isn't home, something Amazon is now keen to test out with a new service called Amazon Key.

After five generations and 43 years in production, Honda has rolled out the sixth evolution of its flagship tourer, the GL 1800 Goldwing. Based on a redesigned six-cylinder boxer, the new model sheds a lot of weight, shrinks in dimensions and introduces a new double-wishbone front suspension.

Nowadays lions, leopards and cheetahs may be the dominant carnivores of Lesotho, Africa, but they all pale in comparison to what might have been the largest predator to ever stalk the continent.

On the outside, robots don't come much simpler than a ball, but that doesn't do justice to the tech inside the gadgets from Sphero. New Atlas went hands on with the company's latest offering, a tiny app-connected robot ball called the Sphero Mini ​that's both drivable and programmable.