New Atlas: Technology-Innovation-Outdoor News

Hybrid amphibious cargo plane flies 1,150 diesel-electric miles

Omar Kardoudi — Sat, 14 Nov 2026 17:03:00 GMT

Seaplanes and I have something in common. We burn most of our energy just getting up, and after that we barely need a thing to coast. Maxwell's M1 Hybrid has been designed to work like a triple espresso with six sugars and a bowl of porridge: electric motors give it a six-minute rush to leave the water, then small diesel engines calmly carry a ton of cargo up to 1,150 miles (1,852 km).

Category: Aircraft, Transport

Tags: Hybrid, Amphibious, Plane, Maxwell, Diesel, Electric Aircraft

Extra-wide tiny house provides a modern take on mountain lodge living

Adam Williams — Sat, 14 Nov 2026 14:03:00 GMT

With its timber-clad exterior, clean lines, and open layout, the Kodiak offers a modern take on mountain lodge living. The tiny house is arranged on one floor and includes a spacious downstairs bedroom, along with a comfortable living area.

Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home

Review: Fender's new Silent Strats are an absolute no-brainer

Loz Blain — Sat, 14 Nov 2026 11:03:00 GMT

It's only taken 72 years, but Fender has finally, comprehensively solved the biggest problem with its most iconic electric guitar: the amount of unwanted noise it makes.

Category: Music, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Fender, Fender Stratocaster, Guitar, Instrument

Common glaucoma test can save eyesight before point of no return

Bronwyn Thompson — Sat, 14 Nov 2026 08:03:00 GMT

Scientists are on the brink of a major breakthrough when it comes to the most common form of glaucoma that leads to blindness, with a huge leap forward in the genetic test an international team has been working on for years. It's massive news for treating the condition early before it takes hold.

Category: Aging Well, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind

Tags: Flinders University, QIMR Berghofer, New EyeSight System, Glaucoma, Blindness

Active winglets... On a 900cc naked bike? What is China smoking?

Utkarsh Sood — Sat, 14 Nov 2026 05:03:00 GMT

If you’re new to the motorcycle scene, you’d probably only know Benelli as a Chinese-owned bike maker that plays in the affordable end of the market, producing some really frugal twin-cylinder motorcycles – whether that's adventure tourers or sportsbikes. Well, let me give a bit of a history lesson.

Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Benelli, Naked bike, Winglet, Aerodynamic, Concept Bikes, EICMA 2026

Hurricane-strength air tent inflates to house 10 people in 10 minutes

C.C. Weiss — Sat, 14 Nov 2026 03:03:00 GMT

The latest launch in Heimplanet's iconic geodesic inflatable tent family, the Mavericks tent has been fully updated for 2026. Already capable of standing strong in 100-mph+ (161-km/h+) winds, the new version packs in even more toughness and extreme weather-shedding capability. It also gains some new colors that take inspiration from natural destinations ranging from wind-blown high desert to lava-ravaged lowlands. And yes, it inflates into full-blown 10-person form in as few as 10 minutes.

Category: Tents, Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Heimplanet, Tent, Inflatable, Camping, Off-grid, Off-road, Outdoors and Camping

Vibrating TV screen puts people's voices where their mouths are

Etiido Uko — Sat, 14 Nov 2026 02:03:00 GMT

Imagine having a conversation and seeing the other person's lips move, but hearing the sound coming from their feet. While our brains can mostly compensate, this disconnect occurs with many big-screen display technologies. Visuals come from different areas of the screen, but the accompanying sound comes from speakers or soundbars positioned elsewhere. Researchers at the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) have developed a display technology that lets you hear sound from the exact area of the screen where the action happens.

Category: Electronics, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Television, Audio, Sound, Display

Quick-releasing e-unicycle rattles your nethers with 10,000 watts

C.C. Weiss — Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:03:00 GMT

It's been a minute since we checked in on the electric unicycle (EUC) game, and unsurprisingly, the Chinese are still innovating hard. The all-new KingSong F16 Aven sounds like a type of fighter jet and will feel nearly as fast thanks to the 10,000 peak watts powering you over all types of terrain via a single wheel located mere inches from your gennies, all while you hang on to ... nothing but the air rushing at your body. KingSong takes any potential sting out of the experience with a quad-damper suspension system and gives its latest one-wheel quick-release hardware for easy tire changes and wheel swaps.

Category: Urban Transport, Transport

Tags: Self Balancing Unicycle, Unicycle, Monowheel, Electric Vehicles, Personal Mobility Vehicle

3D-printed frog swims using artificial muscles powered by light

Mike McRae — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 23:03:00 GMT

A frog that takes nearly two minutes to swim about the length of a credit card is unlikely to make a splash at the next Amphibian Olympics. Then again, most frogs have the benefit of some 200 million years of evolution. This one was just hatched out of a 3D printer.

Category: Technology

Tags: Aarhus University, University of Luxembourg, Robo-fish, Artificial Muscles

Hard-carving snow ebike doubles up on motor and battery power

Ben Coxworth — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 19:01:11 GMT

Envo Drive Systems' MoonBike electric snow bike definitely looks like it's a lot fun, but is it up for doing some actual work? Well, for any jobs it can't handle, a new utility version is on the way – and it'll pack double the motor power.

Category: Outdoors

Tags: Winter, Snowbikes, Electric Vehicles

Review: The world's first Full HD tri-fold portable projector

Paul Ridden — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 16:33:29 GMT

Though Aurzen has been in the projected home entertainment game for a wee while now, I think it's fair to say that the brand didn't really become a global sensation (as such) until last year's launch of the Zip. This (still available) little marvel completely reworked the portable pico projector formula, shaping up as a double-hinge, three-part-folding magic box with built-in power and onboard sound.

Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Pico projector, HD, LED, Projectors, Portable, Folding, Reviews, IFA 2026

Affordable tiny house squeezes the basics into just 16 ft

Adam Williams — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 14:33:00 GMT

Tiny houses don't come much smaller – or cheaper – than this unnamed model. Measuring just 16 ft (4.9 m) long, it features a space-saving interior that makes some interesting choices to maximize its limited footprint.

Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home

BYD's ultra-fast power stations robo-charge EVs in as few as 5 minutes

Simon Heptinstall — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 12:23:08 GMT

Is this the 'gas station' of the future? Chinese battery tech and electric vehicle (EV) giant BYD has unveiled an extraordinary new charging point that combines massive battery storage, ultra-fast megawatt flash charging and a robotic automatic plug-in arm.

Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: BYD, Electric Vehicles, EV Charging, Solar System, Robots, Renewable Energy, Storage

Stroke prevention advances with first-in-class drug approved by FDA

Bronwyn Thompson — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 01:46:43 GMT

A first-in-class blood thinner has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to prevent repeat strokes in people who have recently experienced a serious event or what healthcare professionals call "mini" episodes.

Category: Stroke, Brain Health, Body and Mind

Tags: Stroke, Deaths, Disability, Drug development, clinical trials, FDA

Move over Santa, Australia's Christmas icon has six legs

Bronwyn Thompson — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 01:03:00 GMT

Move over, sunburnt Santa in flip-flops holding a cricket bat, the land Down Under has a new favorite Christmas character – a golden beetle that will have entomologists more excited than they usually are. Which says a lot.

Category: Biology, Science

Tags: Australia, Christmas, Beetle, Insect, Gold, Animal science, Competition

Volkswagen mini-camper van is the most stylish tiny RV of its kind

C.C. Weiss — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 21:33:00 GMT

Twenty twenty-six has been such a big year for stylish electric mini-camper vans, we fear we might have overlooked some rather compelling ICE options. The Cubert is one such van that refuses to be ignored. British converter Bodans takes Volkswagen's smallest ICE van and carves out a simple-but-elegant pop-up interior that's much more inviting than the typical Caddy conversion. It's a cushy studio apartment on wheels in which you'll be happy to curl up with a good book on a rainy day ... or even sunny day.

Category: Campervans, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: Volkswagen, mini-campervan, Campervan, RV, Outdoors and Camping, Camping, PHEV, Plug-in Hybrid

Bubble-powered car is ready to take you on an underwater ride

Ben Coxworth — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 19:11:04 GMT

Ordinarily, if you're in a car that's underwater, that is not a good thing. Such is not the case with the Aquaticar, however, a new amusement-park-ride vehicle which is powered by bubbles.

Category: Boats and Watersports, Toys, Outdoors

Tags: Underwater, Amusement Park, Ride

Jetson ONE personal eVTOL pod is about to go full sky patrol

Omar Kardoudi — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 16:37:48 GMT

Florida Polytechnic University says its campus is about to have America's first flying police officer. The department's Jetson ONE, nicknamed Astro, isn't on patrol just yet, but its chief says the FAA has signed off. Now it just needs its papers.

Category: Aircraft, Transport

Tags: Aircraft, eVTOL, Manned multirotors, Police, Electric Aircraft, Personal eVTOLs

Compact smart telescope offers two views of the night sky

Monica J. White — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 14:41:29 GMT

The Seestar S30 Plus is the new sibling to the S30 Pro, which we covered earlier this year. It's aimed at beginners and enthusiasts who want to capture the night sky without first having to spend hours assembling a mini-observatory.

Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Telescope, Smart, Astrophotography, Amateur astronomy, Artificial Intelligence

Electric motorcycles are getting gearboxes - didn’t we get rid of those?

Utkarsh Sood — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 10:05:42 GMT

Electric motorcycles are incredibly good at making power, but not always particularly good at putting it to work across different riding conditions. Most get by with a single-speed transmission, relying on the broad torque delivery of an electric motor to do everything from pulling away at traffic lights to cruising at highway speeds. It's simple, it's efficient, and it works.

Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Transmission, gearbox, Electric Motorcycles, Electric Vehicles, Prototype, EICMA 2026

World's fastest passenger liner becomes world's largest artificial reef

David Szondy — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 05:46:35 GMT

In what is both the end of a 74-year career and a new lease on life, the SS United States, the world's fastest transatlantic liner, has been scuttled off the coast of the Florida Panhandle to become the world's largest artificial reef.

Category: Marine, Transport

Tags: Ships, Conservation, xxShowcase, Features

Bluetti's expandable home battery tackles a problem I know all too well

Howard Armitage — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 03:36:28 GMT

There's nothing quite like watching a kettle boil on your home energy monitor to appreciate just how power-hungry it is.

Category: Energy, Engineering

Tags: Electricity, Power

Man sees his cat’s eyes in the faces of his friends after brain surgery

Mike McRae — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 00:03:00 GMT

A familiar face can often remain with us long after its owner leaves the room. For the patient described in a recently published case study, that persistence took an unusually literal form after brain surgery, as features of his cat’s eyes appeared in the faces of people he encountered.

Category: Learning & Memory, Brain Health, Body and Mind

Tags: Brain, Perception, Stroke, Face Detection

World's fastest car: BYD's 3,000-hp hypercar shatters 500-km/h barrier

Simon Heptinstall — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 18:00:00 GMT

On a closed stretch of desert highway in Abu Dhabi, German racing driver Marc Basseng has rewritten automotive history at the wheel of a Chinese-built electric coupe.

Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: BYD, World's Fastest, Electric Vehicles, World Records, Guinness

Space-saving tiny house sleeps six and packs a terrace up top

Adam Williams — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 14:42:49 GMT

This tiny house maximizes its compact footprint with a rooftop terrace that adds some welcome outdoor space. Inside, it features a Murphy style bed that transforms the living room into an additional bedroom.

Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home

330-hp rally raider set to invade America’s backwoods

Simon Heptinstall — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 10:26:13 GMT

A wild, uncompromising 330-hp Audi-powered rally-raid machine has burst forth from the foothills of Austria’s Alps - and it’s heading right for America’s backwoods. The KTM X-Bow Arrow, a pricey side-by-side buggy is setting out to kick dirt in the faces of traditional American UTVs on their own home turf.

Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: X-BOW, Off-road, Buggies, Performance, Luxury, Rallying

1,300-mile cargo drone aims to obsolete the helicopter

Omar Kardoudi — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 08:23:19 GMT

Getting a desperately needed spare part to an offshore platform or to troops in contested territory often means spending thousands of dollars booking a helicopter and its crew. Texas startup Skyways says its new Skyreach drone can make that flight on its own for roughly a tenth of the cost, and fly more than 1,300 miles (2,092 km) doing it.

Category: Aircraft, Transport

Tags: Aircraft, VTOL, Hybrid eVTOLs

Cuboid camper doubles into proper tiny home & front porch of the wild

C.C. Weiss — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 03:03:00 GMT

The X8 triple-expander wasn't the only all-new telescopic camper French innovator Beauer introduced this year. In its big lineup reshuffle, it also fully reshaped the future of its six-sleeper caravan. The all-new X6 breaks out of the curvaceous mold the brand has used exclusively for its trailers in the past, becoming a smoothed-corner cuboid built to maximize internal space. And it might just be the nicest overall Beauer design yet.

Category: Camping Trailers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: Caravan, Beauer, dusseldorf-caravan-salon-2026, trailers, Trailer, Camping, Outdoors and Camping

Electric comb could give thinning hair a chance to bounce back

Mike McRae — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 02:28:09 GMT

A comb is an optimistic tool to buy when your hairline is retreating. So researchers in China gave the humble grooming implement a more useful job than rearranging the stragglers by encouraging regrowth among the remaining follicles with a series of electrical pulses and genetic treatments.

Category: Medical Devices, Medical Innovations, Body and Mind

Tags: minoxidil, Hair, Baldness

Slicey 5-in-1 flashlight smashes together 1,800 lumens & razor blade

C.C. Weiss — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 20:33:00 GMT

Over the past three years, Nitecore has expanded out its slim, remote control-like flashlight lineup at a rapid pace, filling out both ends of the family with new models each year. This time around, it's moving the series into all-out multitool territory. As the very first member of the new Utility Tool & Light series, the all-new UTL19 goes beyond mere illumination, offering a toolset with a slide-out box-slicing blade and other hard tools. So you can leave your folding knife at home and just pack 5 ounces (142 g) of multipurpose, multi-beam torch power in your pocket.

Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Flashlights, EDC, nitecore, Multitools, Knife, Everyday Carry, Torch

Solar-powered 'flying horse' radically slashes cost of irrigation

Ben Coxworth — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 17:00:00 GMT

High fuel prices may be no more than an inconvenience for most of us, but they can keep farmers in impoverished nations from making a living. A new vehicle has been designed to help, by using solar power to irrigate fields.

Category: Good Thinking, Technology

Tags: Solar Powered, Agriculture, Crops, Charity, Farming, Irrigation

Royal Enfield Himalayan 750: You asked for it, and it's finally here

Utkarsh Sood — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 15:27:00 GMT

I got my Himalayan 411 in 2019. Back then I didn’t even know what I was going to do with my life, let alone what I was going to do with a 441-lb (200-kg) adventure motorcycle. Boy, did I not have a clue.

Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Royal Enfield, Adventure Bikes, Off-road, Touring, EICMA 2026

Road-ready tiny house packs a lot of flexibility into 26-ft-long frame

Adam Williams — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 13:04:51 GMT

In a market packed with huge tiny houses, the Summer's Night Dream offers a refreshing change: a tiny house that's actually, well, tiny. Despite its modest dimensions, it's surprisingly capable and sleeps four people – or even more at a squeeze – in its compact space-saving frame.

Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home

Review: $100 blackout sound mask has changed my sleep game overnight

Bronwyn Thompson — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 09:11:37 GMT

As a light sleeper who has been known to have a pillow or black shirt over my head in bed, while listening to a podcast or audiobook to drift off and stay that way, the Sleenova SleepMask has been a surprising game-changer.

Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Sleeping, Masks, Insomnia, Audio, Sound, Reviews

New Atlas: Now available in Dark Mode :)

Loz Blain — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 06:15:11 GMT

Some things just make me unreasonably happy, and I'm stoked to share this one: night owls like myself will appreciate the latest feature we've added to the site: a light/dark mode switch that should make New Atlas much easier on your eyes at night.

Category: New Atlas

Tags: New Atlas

Airbus smashes world's longest commercial flight record by 965 miles

David Szondy — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 04:41:04 GMT

Qantas Airways has entered the Guinness Book of World Records after the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) verified that the airline's Airbus A350-1000ULR passenger liner completed the world's longest commercial flight from Melbourne to Toulouse.

Category: Aircraft, Transport

Tags: Airbus, Qantas, Record-breaking

A robot just built a structure in space for the first time

Mike McRae — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 03:50:40 GMT

Pushing big things into Earth’s orbit is no easy task. Putting lots of small things into orbit and then assembling them into something big is easier, but requires a human touch.

Category: Technology

Tags: RoboBuilder, Made In Space, Orbit, Antenna

Harley-Davidson launches its first US single-cylinder bike in 49 years

Utkarsh Sood — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 18:30:00 GMT

For all the heavy hitters in Harley-Davidson’s ranks, it is perhaps the Sprint 440, a rather narrow single-cylinder built in India, that has the biggest responsibility for carrying the weight of the company’s sales. For if H-D is able to hit home with its new motorcycle, it might well and truly be “back.”

Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Harley Davidson, Small-displacement, Retro, Cruisers

Ford V8 crate engine brings unprecedented power to car of your choice

Simon Heptinstall — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 13:53:23 GMT

The world of the factory ‘crate engine’ might sound like an obscure niche industrial supply – but it’s the lifeblood of car customization culture. And Ford has just revealed what it claims is the most powerful ever created by a mainstream manufacturer.

Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Ford, Engine, SEMA Show 2026, Performance

Underwater ultrasound scans could help struggling coral reefs reproduce

Omar Kardoudi — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 10:25:56 GMT

Ultrasound scanners usually spend their days giving expectant parents a first grainy look at their baby. Now Canon has pointed one of its machines at coral to see if it’s egg-laden, and to maybe help with its reproduction issues too.

Category: Imaging & Diagnostics, Medical Innovations, Body and Mind

Tags: Ultrasound, Canon, Coral Bleaching, Coral, scanning, Conservation

Two-person tiny house provides hassle-free living on a single floor

Adam Williams — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 07:03:00 GMT

Not every tiny house needs to be an exercise in squeezing as much as possible into the smallest footprint. The Cali 9.6 takes a more relaxed approach, with an easy to navigate single-floor layout that opens up to the outside.

Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home

Space experiment shatters record for lowest temperature

Mike McRae — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 05:16:14 GMT

A cloud of atoms has been brought within a whisker of absolute zero in a recent space experiment, shattering the previous record in pursuit of the lowest possible temperatures.

Category: Materials, Engineering

Tags: Bose-Einstein condensate, Temperature, Quantum Physics

France’s vision for the warship of 2040 packs lasers, railguns and drones

David Szondy — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:03:00 GMT

The SCX 26, a vision of the warship of the 2040s, has been revealed by French shipbuilder Naval Group, complete with an unusual double superstructure, energy weapons, and advanced tech built to withstand the intense sea battles of tomorrow.

Category: Military, Engineering

Tags: Naval Warfare, concept, Ships

New kit hoists boats out of the water for near-levitational foiling

Ben Coxworth — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 22:03:00 GMT

All other things being equal, hydrofoils tend to be faster, more fuel-efficient and smoother-running than regular boats. But those regular boats needn't despair – there's now a kit that converts them into hydrofoils.

Category: Marine, Transport

Tags: Hydrofoil, Boats, Watercraft

Knee osteoarthritis pain relief – and massive weight loss – from new GLP-1

Bronwyn Thompson — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 16:30:00 GMT

Two Phase 3 clinical trials that involved more than 1,000 adults have significantly strengthened the case for Eli Lilly's experimental GLP-1-based drug retatrutide to gain FDA approval for both weight loss and relief from knee osteoarthritis (OA).

Category: Obesity, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind

Tags: GLP-1 receptor agonists, Weight Loss, clinical trials, Experimental, Drug development, Arthritis, Healthy aging, Obesity, Eli Lilly

L-shaped tiny house embraces indoor/outdoor living

Adam Williams — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 13:03:00 GMT

Most tiny houses take the form of a simple rectangular box, but the two-bedroom Antonia goes for a different approach. It's arranged into an L-shape around a terrace, creating a home designed to embrace indoor/outdoor living.

Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home

Shipping container-mountable guns offer plug-and-play naval defense

David Szondy — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 09:03:00 GMT

Pirates attacking cargo ships might be in for a surprise in the near future as BAE Systems shows off its Sea Tridon family of 40-mm guns at the Euronaval 2026 exhibition in Paris. The systems are designed to be installed as easily as a shipping container.

Category: Military, Engineering

Tags: BAE Systems, Cannons

Battery-free sensor powers up wirelessly via local circuitry radiation

Etiido Uko — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 03:03:00 GMT

Thor, the Norse god of thunder, is famous for conjuring electricity from thin air. It turns out you don't necessarily need a magical hammer to do this, as scientists have created a device that harvests electricity from radiation in its environment.

Category: Energy, Engineering

Tags: University of Arkansas, University of Michigan, Radiation, Temperature, Ambient sensor

MIT fuses best of Legos & Transformers into shape-shifting building blocks

Malcolm Azania — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 22:03:00 GMT

When you were a child, Lego offered the exciting imaginative play of building the shapes of buildings, devices, or robots. Transformers toys manifested the imagination even more fully, with vehicles that metamorphosed into robots and vice versa. But of course, neither Lego nor Transformers could do what actual buildings, devices, or robots could do.

Category: Electronics, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: MIT, Transformable, Shape-shifting, Metamaterials

1-lb Japanese tent aims to be the lightest freestander anywhere

C.C. Weiss — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 18:33:00 GMT

Using some of the most advanced ultralight materials the world has at its disposal, Japanese outdoor gear brand Field Record offers the lightest freestanding tent we've ever seen. Its FR-SCD tent weighs less than half of what some other ultralight backpacking and mountaineering tents weigh, going so light as to undercut many pole-free, non-freestanding shelters. Whether scaling cloud-engulfed granite or emerging out the belly of dense jungle to enjoy camping on untouched tropical beach, the FR-SCD is the tent that will carry like air before bedding down into a cocoon-like shelter.

Category: Tents, Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Tent, Camping, World's Lightest, Outdoors and Camping, Japanese

Extra-wide tiny house gets comfortable cabin living just right

Adam Williams — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 16:03:00 GMT

A lot of tiny houses are designed to focus on portability first and foremost, but the Skye Park Model takes a different approach. It adopts an extra-wide frame to provide a much more spacious, apartment-like interior.

Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home, Cabins

Cold War bomber to get 21st-century hypersonic missile

David Szondy — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 13:03:00 GMT

The cutting-edge future is meeting the over-engineered past as Lockheed Martin is awarded a US$694-million contract by the US Air Force to move the company's AGM-183A hypersonic missile to production for arming the vintage Cold War B-52 bomber.

Category: Military, Engineering

Tags: US Air Force, Hypersonic, Lockheed Martin

Weight loss is tied to earlier bedtime, not the hours spent asleep

Bronwyn Thompson — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 11:03:00 GMT

Whether it's four or eight hours, how much we sleep each night has become a focus for not just researchers but anyone looking to optimize their health. However, a new study suggests we might be focusing on the wrong side of the clock.

Category: Sleep, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind

Tags: New York University, Sleeping, Sleep, Diabetes, Type 2 diabetes, Weight Loss, Age-Related, Chronic illness, Obesity

Lollipop oral sensor will have your child excited for a checkup

Maryna Holovnova — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 08:03:00 GMT

Saliva can provide a plethora of valuable information about our health. Scientists can even use it to detect signs of heart failure. But let’s be honest: medical tests, even something as simple as saliva collection, aren’t much fun, especially for kids. Now, researchers at the University of Southern California have come up with a way to make medical testing a little less of a bitter experience – quite literally.

Category: Good Thinking, Technology

Tags: American Chemical Society, University of Southern California, Diagnostic devices

Mid-engine 3-wheeler packs more kilo-to-kilo power than a Ferrari Enzo

Simon Heptinstall — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 03:03:00 GMT

The floor of the EICMA motorcycle show in Milan is always a global battlefield of sexy new two-wheelers. This year however a weird and wonderful radical newcomer has stolen the show – and it has three wheels not two.

Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: EICMA 2026, Three-Wheeler, Retro, Sports Cars, Trike

Magnetic modular display puts three adjustable screens in front of your face

Maryna Holovnova — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:03:00 GMT

TobenONE is a Chinese tech company that specializes in workspace accessories that bring a little more order to office desks. Its latest product is a magnetic modular display system designed to be assembled quickly, packed away when not in use, and used to add up to three additional screens to a laptop. The project shares the company’s name – TobenONE – and is currently seeking backing on Kickstarter.

Category: Computing, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: xxKickbooster, Kickstarter, Display

Three motorcycles that sound completely ridiculous but are real

Utkarsh Sood — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 20:00:00 GMT

All this talk of new motorcycles at EICMA with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay and displays as big as tablets and taglines like "future of mobility," and none of those bikes stand a chance against the three motorcycles we’ve dug out for you. The script is simple: put together something ridiculously crazy, put two wheels at either end, and ensure the thing runs.

Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Lotus, Moped, Superbike, V-Twin, Engineering, Crazy, Eicma

Obituary: Tesla's Cybertruck (2023-2027)

Bronwyn Thompson — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 17:37:26 GMT

In news that won't come as a surprise to anyone besides those who drive one that hasn't had its wheels fall off, it's been announced that the Cybertruck's production is "winding down." In other words, it's being taken off life support for good.

Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Tesla, Cybertruck, Elon Musk, X (formerly Twitter)

Solar plane soars to 47,600 ft, on target to fly 100 hours

Omar Kardoudi — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 13:57:00 GMT

A solar-powered aircraft with a 59-ft (18-m) wingspan has spent 29 hours flying over the island of Fuerteventura, running, even at night, on nothing but stored sunlight. UAVOS says its ApusNeo is the first solar plane to fly at 47,600 ft (14,500 m) in European airspace, and the company wants to put it to work watching for wildfires, one of the archipelago's biggest summer headaches.

Category: Aircraft, Transport

Tags: Aircraft, Solar Powered, UAV, High Altitude

ONYX RCR 80V review: A 75-mph electric moto with pedals, because laws exist

Kevin Fanady — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 10:58:24 GMT

ONYX sells the RCR 80V as a bridge between the ebike and motorcycle worlds, shipping with pedals and a street-legal ebike motor that converts to a 21,000-watt electric motorcycle capable of 75 mph (120 km/h) at the snip of a wire.

Category: Bicycles, Transport

Tags: Battery+Electric+Vehicle, Electric Motorcycles, ebikes, Crazy, urban transport, urban vehicle, Remembering Joe Salas, xxShowcase