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The BBC has begun delivering up to a million of its micro:bit mini computers to school children in the UK for free. Announced last year as part of the organization's Make it Digital initiative, the micro:bit is a pocket-sized programmable device aimed at encouraging young people to code.
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We've featured some small apartments on Gizmag before, but they've typically been borne of physical constraints. The University of British Columbia's (UBC) planned 140 sq ft (13 sq m) student "Nano" suites, however, are purpose-designed to be affordable.
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Living space in Hong Kong can be expensive, which isn't really compatible with a student lifestyle. Campus Hong Kong, however, provides affordable student accommodation by way of Tetris-like planning. Its rooms squeeze in four students, with beds, desks and communal facilities.
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A team of five mechanical engineering seniors from Rice University, in Houston, Texas, has been tasked by NASA to design furniture suitable for use in future habitats on Mars, the Moon, or in space itself.
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Central College Iowa environmental studies majors Amy Andrews and Ethan Van Kooten built a tiny house using an existing storehouse as a base, at a cost of just US$489.
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When you were a kid, did you ever have one of those toy race cars that was powered by a wound-up rubber band? If you did, chances are it wasn't quite as striking as Cirin. It features state-of-the-art construction, and can travel 500 ft (152 m) at speeds of up to 30 mph (48 km/h).
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When the first living visitor from Earth lands on Mars we might well expect it to be a man or a woman, but if students from the University of Southampton Spaceflight Society have their way, it could be one small step for a lettuce.
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Although we've seen a lot of interesting ideas regarding what may be powering or guiding the cars of the future, it seems that those vehicles' tires don't fire the imagination in quite the same way. Hankook is trying to change that, however, with its Hankook Tyre Design Challenge.
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Seven years ago, iRobot unveiled the Create – an educational robot based around the platform of the company's existing Roomba vacuum-cleaning robot. Both robotics in general and the Roomba specifically have advanced since then, so it only makes sense that iRobot has now announced the Create 2.
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Accelerating from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in just 1.785 seconds, an electric vehicle from Switzerland dubbed "Grimsel" has claimed a new world record for acceleration in electric cars, smashing the previous record by more than 300ths of a second.
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Rolls-Royce sponsored a local team of primary schoolers, developing an "ultra luxury" electric go-kart to compete against similar school-designed cars in this week's Greenpower IET Formula Goblin.
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When a soldier is wounded right at the junction between an extremity and the torso, it can be difficult to treat. A group of students from Johns Hopkins University are working on a solution, in the form of a hardening polyurethane foam that's injected into the wound.
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