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We spent much of this year trying out various virtual reality games on a variety of platforms. With Oculus putting the finishing Touch on the Rift as it launches its excellent motion controllers, there have been some big changes in our picks for the best VR games.

A discreet wearable, currently funding on Kickstarter, hopes to provide users with greater awareness and self-regulation. The Lief smart patch is designed to initiate calming exercises when heart and breathing rates show elevated levels of stress.

Mercedes has just announced a conceptual new set of lamps that can not only adapt their light distribution to cater to the environment, but can project high-res visual aids onto the road ahead, such as makeshift zebra crossings for nearby pedestrians.

The Corbin Sparrow is back. The fully enclosed, electric, single-seat, three wheel city commuter out of Hollister, California features bizarre golf ball dimpling all over the rear surfaces for superior aerodynamics. We spoke to Mike Corbin about his modest ambitions for this remarkable little car.

Perovskite solar cells hold major potential for the future of renewable energy thanks to being cheap, easy to produce and are so flexible that they can even be sprayed or painted on surfaces. Now researchers have set the efficiency record for the biggest perovskite solar cells so far.

​GoPro's release of its long-awaited Karma drone didn't exactly go to plan, but customers can still get a taste of the drone's camera technology – albeit on the ground. The company has now begun sales of the Karma Grip, which is a handheld camera stabilizer much like competitor's DJI's Osmo.

In Beijing, even cramped apartments can fetch a small fortune, but PAO recently built a new prefab home for a first-time buyer for just US$10,000. Based on the firm's patented panel system, it can potentially be assembled by a couple of unskilled people in as little as 24 hours using a hex key.

Amazon has shown it will try just about anything to get its stuff into consumers' hands. The monster retailer's latest take on the brick-and-mortar store is called Amazon Go, a convenience store without check-out lines that works via a mobile app.​

Dutch architect MVRDV is no stranger to designing unusually shaped​ buildings, but its Y House project is perhaps the most unconventional of them all. As the name suggests, it's a home shaped like the letter "Y," while its coup de grâce is a rooftop swimming pool set into its uppermost apex.

New Atlas has racked up the miles this year, crossing the globe to cover motor shows, launches and stories in the automotive world. Starting in Detroit, we've seen concept cars putting a new spin on classic luxury and modern sports cars. Here's our pick of the best concept cars launched in 2016.

DARPA's goal to develop a UAV that can launch from small-deck ships in the US Navy and Marine Corps fleets, for ISR, as well as targeting and strike missions​, is a step closer to getting off the ground, according to Northrop Grumman's latest progress report on the Tern program.

Training the body’s own immune system to fight cancer is steadily gaining traction as a successful way to combat the disease and may, one day, lead to a vaccine. To find out more, New Atlas asked a company working on one such vaccine just how close a cancer vaccine really is.