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The Observatory is an off-grid tiny shelter and artist's studio that will visit various locations in England, and allow an artist-in-residence to live and work for up to two months at a time. It was recently installed in Winchester's South Downs National Park.

The Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robot, as its name implies, is designed to help human crews fight fires in the close confines of naval vessels. In order to get to those fires quicker, it may ultimately receive some help itself from an autonomous drone.

If you've ever switched on a flashlight only to experience a flood of frustrated disappointment, you might appreciate owning an "eternal flashlight." Lumen is designed to be powered by body heat, never needing batteries.​

The new Xraycer all-terrain sled brings sledding to the summer. Developed by a small, passionate group, its rugged tires and tough polyethylene construction let you sled dirt and rock.

​Perhaps you sleep on a memory foam mattress. Well, in the future, a similar material could be used to create artificial body parts. Researchers at Cornell University recently used their new "elastomer foam" to build a functioning fluid pump that looks and works like a human heart.​

The wearable ski racing airbag moves closer to the mainstream. Dainese, designer of the first wearable airbag, will get its tech on the back of World Cup racers this season, and POC launches its own version, the all-new Spine VPD 2.0 Airbag Vest.

A driverless bus developed by French firm Easymile is to go into operation at a business park in California and a park in Singapore. The EZ10 is operated entirely autonomously and doesn't even have a steering wheel. Easymile says it hopes to have 100-200 EZ10s in operation by 2017​.

A world where unmanned aircraft soar alongside their manned counterparts mightn't be all that far away, with UK defence firm Thales recently flying its Watchkeeper drone in civil airspace for the first time.

At the touch of a button Gibbs amphibious motorcycles convert to jet skis and switch to jet propulsion. The switch from road mode to water mode is done in less than 5 seconds.

In the English market town of Chesham, broadband telecommunications company Virgin Media has installed what's billed as the "UK’s first ever Smart Pavement" to provide broadband Wi-Fi.

The Microsoft Surface Book is more of a laptop than a 2-in-1, but it does stay true to its Surface name with a detachable screen. Let's see how it compares to the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display.

A new fully-adjustable synthetic eye lens from the University of Leeds, and made from liquid crystal, is designed to surgically replace long-sighted lenses in the human eye.