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A collaboration between the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has resulted in a mid-air gestural tone and beat controller called the GripBeats.

There are quite a few e-skateboards on the market, although they pretty much all have four wheels, are direct- or belt-drive, and top out at about 20 mph. The Speedboard is different, in that it has two wheels, a chain drive, and goes up to 30 mph.

Some people simply are not fast, powerful swimmers, and it is for such people that electric kickboards were first invented. A new model, the SWIMN S1, features what its creators claim is a more efficient, user-friendly propulsion system.

Enki Cycles has returned to Kickstarter following the success of its Billy e-bike in 2017. This outing sees the California company tackle city streets with the stylish mid-motored Miller electric commuter.

We've seen a number of "electric mouthpiece"-type toothbrushes that are claimed to clean your teeth in 30 seconds or less. At a reported 50 seconds, the three-headed BruBruBrush takes a little longer, but its makers state that it works better.

Not everyone has room for or wants their hi-fi system to have a commanding presence in the living room, which is where the Spinbase comes in – a powered speaker system that sits underneath your turntable.

Beekeepers frequently open up their hives to check on them, but doing so adds to their workload, and it stresses out the bees. A team of Dutch entrepreneurs set out to develop an alternative, resulting in the BEEP base hive-monitoring system.

Flying aircraft or spacecraft is tricky in games. Traditional controllers or joysticks can only provide half the puzzle. Now, a small startup called Sublight Dynamics has unveiled a prototype for a one-handed joystick with six degrees of freedom.

Looking to take down a playtime target with a few rubber band bullets but can’t quite get them away quickly enough? Weaponized T-Rex is out to offer some rapid-fire capabilities with a motorized rubber band toy gun based on the Gatling machine gun.

Three years ago Infivention launched Square Off, a robotic board that moves pieces on its own, allowing players to play against AI or people around the world. Now, two new models are launching – the updated, chess-focused Neo and the multi-game Swap.

While quadcopters may provide photographers with a great way of getting aerial shots, sometimes a ground-based approach to the subject is what's required. That's why Vanora Robots has developed a four-wheeled camera platform known simply as Steve.

It's one of those ideas that seems so simple that you wonder why no one's thought of it before: Gameboard-1 is a tabletop games console that could theoretically replace your board game collection – at least in part.