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A footbridge recently constructed in Hull, England, features a novel mechanical system that enables people to "ride" across the waterway as the bridge slowly rotates to make way for boat traffic.

Game developer Valve has announced the Steam Controller, a wireless gamepad that sports a touch screen in the center flanked by two large trackpads. Along with the upcoming SteamOS and Steam Machines, gamers may soon be able to enjoy a full library of PC games from the comfort of their living room.

Here's a bit of fun. Terrafab is a web app that uses a simple, familiar map interface with which visitors can select their favorite piece of Norway to 3D print at home (or order a print of, if they're yet to take the home-3D printing plunge).

Chinese manufacturer Oppo revealed the N1 smartphone at a press conference in Beijing on Monday that features a camera module capable of rotating 206 degrees for front, back, top or angled photography.

Swedish-led Q Lifestyle has released a colorful 5 megapixel, 3G-packing pocket camera called theQ that's both easy on the budget and simple to use.

Tree Snake Houses by RA Architectural and Design Studio is the latest in a long line of treehouses that we've covered at Gizmag. Located at the Pedras Salgadas Spa and Nature Park in the north of Portugal, the houses snake their way through the tree tops, offering simple and private accommodation.

If you're shopping for a new iPhone, Apple gives you not just one, but three options to choose from. How do you choose between the flagship iPhone 5s, the colorful iPhone 5c, and the aging iPhone 4s? Let Gizmag lend a hand, as we put the three side-by-side, and compare their features and specs.

During the recent LEGO2NANO summer school held at Tsinghua University in Beijing, a group of Chinese and English students succeeded in making a Lego-based scanning atomic force microscope with nanoscale resolution in five days at a cost less than $500.

The Galaxy Note doesn't have a lot of peers. Sure, there are other huge phablets in stores, but few of them have a built-in stylus or the software to support it. So while we're taking a look at the new Galaxy Note 3, why not compare it to one of the best smartphones of 2013, the HTC One?

STMicroelectronics has announced a new MEMS-based module that integrates a three-axis magnetometer, a three-axis accelerometer, A/D converters, and control logic on a 2 mm x 2 mm x 1 mm surface mount chip, making it the smallest electronic compass available today.

Remember the mechanical owl from the original version of Clash of the Titans? Well, even if you don't, here's your chance to own something kind of like it. It's called ixi-play, and it's an interactive robotic owl that's designed to both entertain and educate your children.

Researchers in Uruguay and in Louisiana have succeeded in forming a loop quantum gravity model of a quantum black hole. The result is that predictions of physics-ending singularities vanish, and are replaced by bridges to another universe.