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We’re tech optimists here at New Atlas, and that goes for small-scale unpersoned aerial vehicles. But clearly there’s something about their potential for snoopery that disgruntles the house-proud. Judging by the technology on this list someone somewhere thinks there’s an anti-drone buck to be had.

​The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally being held this week at Sturgis, South Dakota became the backdrop for a full reveal of the newly minted Indian Scout FTR750., which will mark the company's return to flat track racing.

​The Ouroboros is an ancient Egyptian symbol of a serpent curled around in a circle, consuming its own tail. It also lends its name to Ourobot, a circular shape-shifting all-terrain robot developed by four students at Germany's Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences.​

The Rio Olympics open this weekend, and Japan’s national broadcaster, NHK, will for the first time broadcast some events in 8K. While the technology to view “Super High Vision” content at home isn’t commercially available just yet, public viewing events will be held around Japan and Brazil.

Step inside the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum and Hall of Fame, and you’ll get a glimpse into a world where two-wheeled machines were far less complicated yet still advanced for their time.​

​A couple of months back, when a full-scale prototype of China's bizarre bestriding bus was promised for July, we didn't actually expect to see one on the road so soon. Well, the wheels are starting to turn on this extraordinary traffic and pollution solution.

The Boogie Board line of e-writers has expanded its stable with two new models, the Jot 4.5 with Clearview and the Scribble n’ Play. Like other Boogie Boards, both use cholesteric liquid crystal display (LCD) technology, which allows users to easily write and erase with the press of a button.

​New ways of tracking the contents of our sweat has opened up some exciting possibilities in health monitoring, and alcohol sensors are a part of this mix. But a new flexible, tattoo-like sensor developed by US researchers might be the most discreet one we've seen yet.

The Woolf wristband fits under your riding leathers, and hooks up to a global speed camera database to warn you when there's a speed trap ahead. If it saves you one ticket, it's paid for itself.

​Silex Power has announced the Valene Black Mamba, a three-wheel electric vehicle aiming to combine the thrill of high-performance motorbikes with some of the perks of automobile-driving. Be in no doubt though, this is a machine designed to put serious venom at the fore.​

​Today Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Note 7​ at a Manhattan event. Afterwards, we got some hands-on time with the latest "minor but possibly upgrade-worthy" iteration of the stylus-laden phablet.

MIT researchers have developed a technique​ that allows dynamic interaction with objects captured in video. By analyzing vibrations in the video, the system can construct an interactive model of a real-world object from as little as five seconds of video.​