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Mercedes‑AMG has helped design a mountain bike. The sports car and performance brand within Mercedes-Benz recently joined forces with German bicycle manufacturer Rotwild, to create the limited-edition Rotwild GT S.

How would you like to be able to know the chemical composition of something, just by taking a snapshot or video of it with your smartphone? You may eventually be able to, thanks to a compact hyperspectral imaging camera being developed at Tel Aviv University.

Jaguar and Pinarello have combined to create the new Dogma K8-S. It has been engineered with a clever rear suspension system to provide Team Sky’s cyclists with a smooth ride across rough terrain.

South Korean carmaker Kia has debuted a new sleek and powerful-looking concept car at the 2015 Seoul Motor Show. The Novo takes a fastback coupé style that looks almost futuristic, and while many concepts are blue-sky exercises, Kia insists the Novo gives "clear hints" about its future designs.

In an effort to increase awareness of nutritional requirements, and to bring simple tech into complex customs, a medical foundation in India has joined forces with an ad agency. The plan is to combat iodine deficiencies using bindis, the decorative forehead dots worn by most Indian women and girls.

Back in 2009, the US Department of Energy issued its SuperTruck Challenge. It invited truck manufacturers to design a prototype that was at least 50 percent more freight-efficient than a baseline truck. Daimler Trucks North America recently unveiled its response – the Freightliner SuperTruck.

Scientists from Houston's Rice University are looking into growing algae in municipal wastewater. The water would already contain its own free fertilizer, plus the algae would help clean it up.

The mannequins used in crash tests are so specialized that when the US Army went looking for one of its own, it awarded a contract to California-based Diversified Technical Systems (DTS) to help develop the first instrumented dummy designed for military vehicle blast testing.

Modern deep space probes may be among the most sophisticated pieces of hardware the 21st century can produce, but the Rosetta space probe was thrown into safe mode recently when it was unable to take a simple star fix due to comet dust.

Good design is a functional expression of purpose and after 200 years of creating household technology and a 125 years of designing transportation technology, Peugeot Design has married the two with an ingenious mobile restaurant "Foodtruck" concept.

People have actually claimed to have seen living pterosuars, although those alleged sightings tend to be confined to far-flung places. That could be about to change, however. PaulG Toys is raising production funds for a radio-controlled pterodactyl, that flies by flapping its wings.

British-based auto-firm Delphi has completed a journey from San Francisco to New York with its self-driving car. The trip, announced in March, covered nearly 3,400 miles (5,500 km) and took nine days. Delphi says it is the first US coast-to-coast trip ever taken by an automated vehicle.