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When we met with Oculus VR earlier this year, the team mentioned that future versions of the Rift headset could skip the PC, and instead use mobile devices for brains. Now we see what they were cooking up. Read on, as Gizmag reviews Oculus' collaboration with Samsung, the Gear VR Innovator Edition.

Blink and you'll miss it, but what appears at first glance to be a large boulder is actually a tiny cabin that contains all the basics you'd need for a short stay in the mountains. The cabin is the work of Swiss firm Bureau A, and was recently installed in a sculpture park in the Swiss Alps.

Dragan Tutić felt that using wave power to turn seawater into the drinkable variety on the spot had been largely unexplored. Having now developed a prototype, he hopes to deploy his wave-powered desalinator to where water scarcity threatens the survival of coastal communities.

Deloitte's new corporate headquarters in Amsterdam has been certified as the most sustainable office building in the world by BREEAM. The Edge was awarded an "Outstanding" rating with the highest ever BREEAM score of 98.36 percent. It takes the title from One Embankment Place in London.

A US Navy team has been testing a shark-inspired robot. Known as the GhostSwimmer, it was developed by Boston Engineering as part of the Navy's Silent NEMO project, which is aimed at creating nature-inspired unmanned underwater vehicles.

NASA's Kepler space telescope shows that it still has life in it as its extended mission begins to bear fruit. This week, the space agency announced that the spacecraft detected a new exoplanet, demonstrating that its K2 life extension mission is working.

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has released some preliminary details concerning a new planned headquarters for a Middle East environmental waste management company. The LEED Platinum-seeking project will run solely from renewable energy sources.

While there are many fitness trackers designed to log metrics like heart rate and steps, the Vert Jump Rate Monitor sets itself apart by specifically targeting sports and workouts that require the athlete to jump.

Whoever said that losing your mobility also meant giving up your independence? Rocket Mobility's Tomahawk all-terrain personal utility vehicle allows the wheelchair-bound or otherwise mobility-impaired to traverse up to 12 miles cross country at a maximum speed of six miles per hour.

Multiple efforts are underway to put people on Mars, but they may not succeed for decades. In the meantime, a new space race is on to create breathable air on the Red Planet.

Sony’s latest swing at the wearables sector is one of its most interesting to date, taking the form of a smart headset module designed to clip on to any pair of glasses. The unnamed prototype hardware is capable of standalone functionality and incorporates a single, pixel dense OLED display.

Infiniti made sure that 2014, the year of the Vision Gran Turismo, didn't end without one more Vision GT debut. It revealed its simply named Concept Vision Gran Turismo, a curvy racer that provides a "vision of what a high performance Infiniti could look like in the future."