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Three auctions over the next week will see one of the greatest assortments of elite collectible motorcycles ever assembled go under the auctioneer's hammer, including a Brough Superior SS100 expected to fetch US$300,000 and a BMW Rennsport RS500 factory racer expected to top US$250,000.

Designing a building to be sympathetic to its surroundings can be tricky, especially when the building is to be on the edge of a national park. Bjarke Ingels Group's (BIG) 79 & Park uses greenery and a clever, pixelated design to blend into the area.

3D printing technology may be some way off producing fully functional household appliances, but tiny steps are being made toward helping us out with our domestic duties. Hoover has today unveiled two designs for vacuum accessories, freely available to all through online marketplace Thingiverse.

2014 wasn’t the year that drones first entered the consumer lexicon, but it did see the notion of using these vehicles to our advantage become much more palatable. Let’s have a look at some of the year’s surprising drone projects which promise to shake things up in exciting new ways.

Electric scooters are becoming an increasingly viable form of economical and eco-friendly urban transport. That said, many of them aren't set up to do much more than carry a single rider. Begium's Neerman Transport is looking to change that, with its johanson3 electric cargo trike.

A low-cost virtual reality and camera setup makes it possible for people with normal vision to see the edge-blurring of glaucoma or the clouded, fogged-up vision of a cataract, or even the confusing hue-challenged sights of a colorblind person – with their own eyes.

We're all familiar with hybrid cars, but hybrid planes are virtually unheard of. Now though, researchers from the University of Cambridge, UK, have partnered with Boeing to test what they say is the first hybrid-electric aircraft. It is said to use 30 percent less fuel than a gas-only equivalent.

NASA wants to use the unreal gripping power of gecko feet to reach out and grab space junk in orbit. The technology has already been successfully tested under weightless conditions.

If the object is quite large, or if a lot of them are being made, paint can add considerably to its weight and/or production costs. With that in mind, researchers have created a new lightweight, low-cost coloring technology for both rough and smooth surfaces.

Peri Duo combines a battery case and speaker into one unit. When detached, it can act as a standalone WiFi/Bluetooth speaker with high-volume potential and crisp sound quality. The 2,500-mAh battery ensures 12 to 17 hours of talk time, while peer-to-peer Wi-Fi allows multicasting.

Mechanic Advisors’ new product is designed to make the appearance of the dreaded check engine light that little bit less disheartening, by giving car owners a portal into the health of their vehicle.

In the developing world small-scale gold mining and smelting under primitive conditions poses a major health hazard. To help alleviate this, a team from Argonne National Laboratory and the US EPA are developing a prototype mercury capture system (MCS) to reduce heavy metal pollution.