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Maybe not as glamorous as drones that go faster or shoot beautiful images, but making them less likely to crash into objects is still critical to advancing the technology. Startup Panoptes' answer to this is a kit that can be slapped onto certain consumer drones to stop them running into things.

Japan hopes to one day harvest power from an orbiting solar farm and beam electricity back to Earth. This week it announced the successful test of such a wireless power system at a small scale.

Folding electric bicycles are becoming increasingly popular, although the presence of a chain (or an external belt drive) can complicate the folding procedure. That's why JAM Vehicles created the JIVR Bike. It has a chainless sealed drivetrain, along with some other interesting features.

The Instrument 1 has changed significantly since we last saw it back in 2014. The latest version is more widely compatible and features a new design. The company has headed to Kickstarter to fund the the ambitious multi-instrument, and it's already surpassed its funding goal.

UK-based ProAirsport has developed a hybrid microlight/glider with electrically powered wheels used for taxiing and takeoff, and a jet turbine for climbing and cruising. Unlike typical microlights and self-launching gliders, ProAirsport's GloW is propeller-free.

The latest book to join a growing library of digitally inspired writing platforms is Rocketbook, and it does so with an interesting twist. Further to shooting handwritten notes and doodles to the cloud, when it fills up users can stick the book in the microwave to wipe its pages clean.

A 1960 Ferrari 400 Superamerica SWB Cabriolet fetched US$6,380,000 to become one of the top 100 cars ever sold at auction, 23 cars sold for more than a million dollars, and $101 million worth of cars were sold in three days. Read on for a full report and pictorial of the auctions.

BMW has chosen its X5 SUV to be its first plug-in hybrid production car. The BMW X5 xDrive40e has lots of trick engineering slickly packaged in a vehicle that could bring plug-in hybrid technology to a wider potential audience than if it was used in a sedan or a sports car.

We've already heard about swallowable capsules that can transmit video from within the digestive tract. Pictures will only tell you so much, though. That's why researchers have now developed a capsule that measures concentrations of intestinal gases, and sends that data to a smartphone.

The all-new Blue Freedom kit offers yet another portable power alternative. "The world's smallest hydropower plant" transforms the power of running water into phone chatting, internet browsing, music listening, GPS navigating and other mobile device activities.

On most fish, their hard, overlapping scales provide protection against pokes and cuts. Because those scales are attached to a flexible skin, however, the fish are still able to easily twist their bodies. Scientists are now attempting to copy that structure, to develop flexible-yet-effective armor.

Developed by the Create Lab at Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute, Speck is a state-of-the-art, low-cost, portable indoor air quality monitor that offers more precision to users. Enabled with Wi-Fi, it allows users to upload data to a portal and access official data.