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The chip-packed boards within modern electronic devices are a mystery to most people. In an effort to make it easier to understand how these marvels of modern technology actually work, engineer James Newman​ has built a room-sized computer he calls the Megaprocessor​.

​Pac-Man’s been around for 36 years now, and in that time he’s had his fair share of remakes and reboots, but he’s never inspired anything on this scale. That’s because said scale is microscopic, with the entire game taking place in a maze less than 1 mm wide, populated by predatory microbes.

The KokoNut is a serious luxury yacht, for serious buyers with a serious amount of cash at their disposal. With a luxurious sunbed, glass-walled dining room and space for 10, the KokoNut takes Wally's base model and makes it fit for a seafaring millionaire.

​​NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has been cleared for another two-year extended mission to study the Red Planet – if it can wake up. Since July 2, the unmanned explorer has been in safe mode and engineers are trying to find out why.

Boeing showed off the latest aircraft in its ecoDemonstrator program today, rolling out a specially modified version of an Embraer E170 designed to study ways to make aircraft aircraft greener and more efficient.

Houseplants have never been known as great conversationalists, but it’s possible we just can’t hear what they’re saying. A company in the UK, Vivent, is hoping to rectify that with a device that picks up the tiny electrical signals emitted by plants and broadcasts them through a speaker.

Motivated by the dual desires to learn about neural net software and keep his lawn cat poop-free, software engineer Robert Bond rigged up a system that detects when cats – and only cats – stroll into his yard, and responds by turning on the sprinklers.

​Nvidia has announced its latest mainstream graphics card in the form of the GeForce GTX 1060. The new GPU offers a big performance jump over its predecessor, and is certified VR Ready, making it more affordable than ever to jump into the enticing world of virtual reality.

Samsung is the first to offer a taste of the next-gen memory cards.​Its new Universal Flash Storage cards are the same size as microSDs, but can match the blazingly-fast data transfer speeds of solid state drives.​​Samsung's new cards are the first to hit the market.

Researchers from a variety of universities have just announced that they've taken a different approach to make a soft robot. To create their robotic ray, they engineered some pretty special heart cells and attached them to a golden skeleton.

An add-on electric drive like the ElectraFin is a great way to take some of the "paddle" out of paddle sports. The all-new Bixpy Jet is the latest, and it packs serious versatility. It'll power your kayak, your canoe, your stand-up paddleboard ... and even you. ​

As traction control, engine mapping and suspension systems get smarter, it's become possible to change a car's character on the fly. In the Ford F-150 Raptor, those modes will let you turn your road-going truck into everything from a rock-crawler to a wannabe Baja racer.