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Is the mobile phone threatening to kill off the wristwatch? Not if Swiss watchmaker Breitling has anything to say about it. The Breitling B55 Connected combines smartwatch technology with haute horlogerie in a partnership where the phone serves the watch instead of the other way round.

On March 18, 1965, Soviet cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Pavel Belyayev lifted off in Voskhod (Sunrise) 2, during the flight of which Leonov would become the first person to step into the vacuum of space.

The PlyFly Go-Kart is a flatpack go-kart that's powered by a 4-stroke engine. The wooden vehicle can be assembled in just a few hours, and promises speeds of up to 25 mph (40 km/h). It's currently the subject of a Kickstarter campaign.

When drowsiness sets in on the road, drivers typically open a window and turn up the radio. The Impecca Alert Band can warn drivers that they are becoming fatigued in advance of it becoming dangerous, giving users more time to do the one thing that helps: stop and take a break.

Most of us thought a MacBook Air with Retina Display would have arrived long before 2015, but that's how long Apple took getting this bad boy ready. How does Apple's new MacBook ("Air" and "Retina" in everything but name) stack up next to the Surface Pro 3? Let's compare their features and specs.

Researchers have recorded the world's first optically encoded audio onto a plasmonic film substrate the size of human hair that has a capacity over five-and-a-half thousand times greater than conventional analog magnetic recording media.

A team of astronomers combining radio data from the Green Bank Telescope, West Virginia, with data from the radar transmitter at the National Science Foundation's Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico, have compiled a stunning new view of Venus.

Miami startup Next Galaxy is turning to crowdfunding to finance Ceekars 4D. The smart headphones are designed to bring a new level of immersion to virtual reality, gaming and other media through haptic feedback and a more immersive sound technology.

A café in upstate New York has an innovative means of keeping its customers cozy. It features a masonry heater with a flue that runs horizontally and doubles as a bench. The building can apparently be heated for 24 hours following a single, hour-long burn.

Automotive supplier Magna has unveiled a new concept car that will debut at the Geneva Motor Show. The Magna MILA Plus is part of the company's MILA innovation and technology brand. It's a plug-in hybrid two-seater sports car with an all-electric range of 75 km (47 miles).

Scientists at the University of Southern California (USC) have made steps toward discovering a new family of superconductor materials that work at relatively high temperatures, with possible applications in physics research, medical imaging and high-performance electronics.

Scientists recently determined that the material from which the limpet's teeth are made is officially the world's strongest natural material. Now, a study suggests that a specific type of limpet's shell may hold the key to transparent displays that require no internal light source.