Experimental

Popular inventor Colin Furze recently tried recreating the hoverboard from Back to the Future II. He failed, but what he found along the way floats, steers, and might have more to say about urban transport than any hoverboard ever could.

Inventor extraordinaire Colin Furze created a suspension system for a bicycle that, instead of springs or forks, uses opposing magnets fitted to a custom frame that keep him from feeling any bumps on the road. Surprisingly, it worked.

Any sort of list is fraught with subjectivity, and perhaps none more so than one ranking the world's greatest technological achievements in order from 100 to one. This week, two tech experts bravely took on this historic task – and it's a wild ride.

Sometimes you see a vintage plane that makes you scratch your head. Case in point is the US Air Force's X-29 of the 1980s that looks like a fighter with the wings stuck on backwards. Was this a daft mistake or a great leap forward? Let's have a look.

Czech company UDX is flying scale prototypes of a tandem 2-up eVTOL it calls Airwolf. With individually-tilting ducted fan propulsion, it's got enough wing surface for efficient cruise flight as well as agile movement from a hover.

An adventurous professor from the University of South Florida has broken the world record for living in an underwater habitat. Joseph Dituri has called the submurged Jules’ Undersea Lodge home since March 1, and intends to remain there until June 9.

Toward the end of 2020, David Li collaborated with Google Arts and Culture on a machine learning experiment called the Blob Opera. Now Stuck Labs has developed a touchless interface that allows children to control the operatic action using gestures.

Having been responsible for designing Britain's Antarctic Research Station, Hugh Broughton Architects knows how to keep humans alive in harsh conditions. The firm is using this experience to imagine what would be required to shelter humans on Mars.

NASA has tested three new noise reduction technologies on a series of Acoustic Research Measurement (ARM) flights, and managed to cut airframe noise during landing by more than 70 percent.

The future of commercial aircraft will probably include long, thin, flexible wings that reduce weight and drag for extra efficiency and ride comfort. NASA and Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works division have been flight testing an experimental X-56A airframe with active flutter vibration suppression.

Scaled Composites Model 401 experimental plane has completed its maiden flight. The aircraft took to the air on Wednesday as part of a program to demonstrate the company's advanced, low-cost manufacturing techniques.

​Margot Krasojević’s architectural designs are undeniably experimental, incredibly philosophical and, with engineering technology rapidly evolving, increasingly realizable. Her latest piece is an incredible, mobile bridge commissioned as a prospective crossing for a river in Mongolia.