Prototype

Music gear icon Gibson has teamed up with online instrument marketplace titan Reverb to sell one-of-a-kind prototypes, demo models, pre-played artist signatures and Gibson mods. The Gibson Demo Shop has kicked off with 40 exclusive guitars.

Every so often we stumble across something truly awesome on platforms like YouTube. In this case it was a beautiful rendition of the George Harrison composition, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, on a custom acoustic with a novel slide guitar attachment.

Until now, the various flavors of Arcimoto's FUV have sat somewhere between a Polaris Slingshot and a Can-Am Spyder, but with all-electric drive and a roof. Now the company has blown off the roof for a fully open-air reverse trike named the Roadster.

Photogram – the startup behind the Alice Camera, a MFT sensor/lens module controlled by a smartphone app – has launched a limited beta program ahead of a crowdfunding campaign next year, to get early adopters involved in the development process.

The Livewire may be Harley-Davison's first electric motorcycle, but it's not going to be its last electric two-wheeler. Today marks its official entry into the ebike market with a brand new company named after Harley's oldest known motorcycle.

Toyota and Honda recently started testing a fuel-cell bus designed as a mobile power source for disaster relief. Now Nissan has driven out an emergency response vehicle based on its Leaf electric car that will also provide emergency power.

Dublin-based startup Joyst Instruments is launching a new MIDI controller called the JV-1 next month on Kickstarter that sports a bunch of gamer-style thumb joysticks up top for creating expressive music. Prepare your DAW for battle!

A London startup is developing an interchangeable lens camera unit called Alice that features a Micro Four Thirds sensor and has a smartphone mounted to the back which is used as a live viewfinder and for settings control.

Anthony Dickens had an idea for a new kind of guitar for more than 10 years, but work on a prototype only started two years ago. Now with the help of engineers from London's Makerversity, the Circle Guitar is ready to rock.

When you think of papier-mâché, school art projects and carnival floats may come to mind, but a team of architects has used strips of recycled paper and non-toxic glue to create pair of simple prototype shelters in rural Texas.

Kamp C in Antwerp, Belgium, has created a 3D-printed house with two floors – the first we've seen – using what it calls Europe's largest 3D printer. It was created for research purposes and to highlight the possibilities of 3D-printed architecture.

Festo has good form for pushing the envelope in robot development, previously showing off bio-inspired bot versions of ants, a kangaroo, flying penguins and more. Now the firm has revealed the latest developments, including aerobatic BionicSwifts.