adaptive

An innovative company has done away with the one-size-fits-all model, with a chair that is more like a furniture Transformer, letting you adapt it to your needs, rather than you having to adapt to it. It's also as stylish as it is functional.

Ordinarily, headlamp users have to manually switch the angle of their device, depending on what they're doing. The Adaptev Headlamp isn't like that, in that it automatically switches beam angles based on its wearer's head movements.

After suffering a brain injury in 2015, pro mountain biker Lorraine Truong was left partially paralyzed – this meant she could no longer ride a conventional bicycle. She's now back in the "saddle" again, though, thanks to the Orange Phase AD3 eMTB.

When training for any sort of physical task, it's important to keep challenging yourself as your skills improve. That's the thinking behind a new adaptive basketball hoop, that gets higher and smaller as users make more shots.

Many animals adjust to changes in climate by shifting behaviors such as hibernation, reproduction and migration in order to optimize the continuation of the species. Unfortunately, a recent meta analysis of over 10,000 studies suggests these adaptations simply aren't happening quickly enough.

After testing Nura’s near-magical auto-adaptive headphones in 2016, we jumped straight in and bought a couple pairs. To date, they’re still the best we’ve ever heard, but we didn’t expect this free software update that adds active noise canceling, social mode and a bunch of other new features.

In places like disaster sites, it's entirely possible that robots' locomotion systems could be damaged. Would that just stop them in their tracks? Perhaps not, if they're anything like a new brittle star-inspired robot.

The Outrider Horizon is a modular adaptive trike designed to get paraplegics, quadriplegics and others with disabilities wheeling over pavement and dirt. Outrider's goal is to develop a production trike that can be pedaled with the legs or hands or powered entirely with an electric hub motor.