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Eminent Technology has announced the Model Twenty Two – the "world's first flat panel active guitar speaker." Super-lightweight and about the size of a chunky picture frame, this 120-decibel oddity can now be your guitar amp, cab and FRFR speaker.

Graphene hogs all the headlines about two-dimensional materials, but it might just be the beginning. Researchers have now isolated a 2D form of the soft metal gallium, dubbed "gallenene," which could make for efficient, thin metal contacts in electronic devices.

If you don't have a lot of space with which to work when designing an apartment, you have to be creative. Architecture firm ICOSA has certainly done that with its Domino Loft. A multi-functional space in a small condo combines a bedroom, a guest bed, a dining space, a work area and a closet.

You don't need a big place to stay for a city break, but you do need all the essentials. An apartment in Budapest, Hungary, squeezes them all into just 30 sq m (323 sq ft). AirBn'P has a meticulous design, a multifunctional bed/storage unit and other space-saving storage solutions.

Convertible Spaces apartments in Melbourne, Australia, employ movable walls to open up a living space or cut it in two to create a bedroom area with a pull down bed and storage units.

Creating homes in cities where space is increasingly at a premium requires original thinking and Yo! Company prides itself on just that. The firm has unveiled an innovative apartment dubbed the Yo! Home that makes the most of its limited space.

Whoever said "size doesn't matter" clearly wasn't an architect, because trying to fit an apartment into a 21 sq m (226 sq ft) room is no mean feat. That's exactly what architecture studio Spamroom has done through clever use of available vertical space and a multi-purpose central unit.

A Master's design student from Germany has developed a concept for the audio speaker that might just hint at how the product will look in the future, and that's flat.

Hogarth Architects is has cleverly maximized use of space with its renovation of a small, single-level flat.

A new planar sodium-nickel chloride battery could deliver 30 percent more power at lower temperatures than its cylindrical counterpart.

Fraunhofer has reduced the size but improved the quality of its flat loudspeakers.