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Sticking with the standard airplane metric, Nissan has used its Patrol 4WD to pull a fully-laden Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane weighing 170.9 tons over 50 m (164 ft) to set a new Guinness World Record.

When the Nook HD+ launched, it cost US$270, and had an extremely limited app selection. Today it costs $150, and runs the full suite of Google apps, including the Play store. We revisit the almost year-old tablet, put it through the paces, and determine whether it's worth picking up.

Ford has embarked on a research partnership with St. Petersburg Polytechnic University in Russia to study communications systems for space robots as a way of improving technology currently under development to produce cars able to communicate directly with one another and with the internet.

MIT PhD students Robert R. Morris and Dan McDuff decided that they’d like to spend less time with social media and more writing their dissertations, so they came up with Pavlov Poke, a sort of aversion therapy device that gives you electric shocks if you've spent too much time on Facebook.

Unfortunately, many GPS-guided quadcopters on the market these days can be too complicated for the average consumer to fly. That's why 3D Robotics has unveiled the Iris, a new drone that's fully assembled straight out of the box and supports simple GPS controls through any computer or smart device.

Astronomers have developed a new visible-light adaptive optics (AO) system for a 6.5 meter telescope in Chile's Atacama desert. The new AO system produces the sharpest telescopic images ever captured – images twice as sharp as can be achieved by the Hubble space telescope.

The Varibike is designed to give cyclists a more complete work-out, and to produce more power, by allowing them to pedal with both their legs and their arms.

The FABtotum hybrid fabrication machine combines popular technologies to to let users 3D print, 3D scan, mill and cut in one small, elegant open-source device.

A new Kickstarter campaign hopes to bring London's landmarks to the game of kings. The 3D-printed Skyline Chess set features pieces styled after iconic buildings such as Big Ben and Canary Wharf.

Longboard skateboards can travel downhill insanely fast, which makes the practice of downhill boarding look pretty scary to a lot of us. Add in the fact that the boards don’t have brakes, however, and it can seem downright suicidal. That’s why Benjamin Newman has developed the Brakeboard.

When it comes to bridging the gap between mobile and desktop, computing companies have lots of different ideas. One of the simplest is logging onto your own PC remotely. Parallels, maker of popular Mac virtualization software, just launched an iPad app that tries to add a new spin to that old trick.

Beer is often quaffed in the aftermath of a day of sports, despite the ill effects resulting from dehydration. However, a group of Australian Public Health researchers have now found that the bad effects of alcohol can be eased by adding a pinch of sodium to your beer.