New Atlas: Technology-Innovation-Outdoor News

Cubic camper trailer gets vertical to maximize post-adventure living

C.C. Weiss — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 19:17:49 GMT

SylvanSport has long lurked as an outlier in the RV world. For years, its primary offerings were skeletal gear-hauling tent trailers unlike virtually anything else on the market. It then leaped from that compact, lightweight low-rider style straight to launching one of the boldest, boxiest campers of its class in the expandable Vast. Now it's circling back to fill in some of the sprawling space in between, launching the all-new Vire trailer as a camper that's just as boxy as the Vast but smaller and simpler. The new camper packs everything you need for a great weekend in the wild, without anything to complicate the trip.

Category: Camping Trailers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: trailers, Caravan, Sylvansport, RV, Trailer, Camping, Outdoors and Camping

Affordable tiny house hits sweet spot for family living

Adam Williams — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 17:03:00 GMT

Fitting in a small family without sacrificing portability is always a challenge when it comes to downsizing, but this tiny house strikes a good balance with a mid-sized layout that sleeps up to four. It features two bedrooms, including one on the ground floor, while remaining relatively affordable.

Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

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

USA finally gets the modular smartphone owners can repair themselves

Monica J. White — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:03:00 GMT

As right-to-repair rules spread and buyers grow weary of sealed, disposable slabs, a handful of companies are betting that people will pay for a device they can actually open up and keep going for years.

Category: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Fairphone, sustainable design, Repair, smartphones

China's colossal tunneling machine bores AND blasts through raw ground

David Szondy — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 10:03:00 GMT

China has unveiled the world's largest multi-tool as it rolled out the world's first Boring and Blasting Machine (BBM) that combines a tunnel-boring machine with the ability to set explosives to blast through solid rock.

Category: Engineering

Tags: China, Tunnel

Italian moto marque launches big US comeback with 5 limited-run bikes

Utkarsh Sood — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 02:03:00 GMT

Bimota has never really been in the business of making motorcycles for everybody. Since its birth in 1973, the Italian marque has made a name for itself doing things the unnecessarily complicated way: take a proven engine from somebody else's parts bin, build an outrageously sophisticated chassis around it, drape the whole thing in Italian bodywork, and then make only a handful of them.

Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Bimota, Kawasaki, America

Aston Martin's Valen is the most powerful front-engined supercar ever

Abhimanyu Ghoshal — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 22:03:00 GMT

Aston Martin's latest offering presents a radical departure from its usual design direction. If you like your cars burly and mean, you'll dig the Valen. It's also plenty fast.

Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Aston Martin, Sports Cars

New process spins nuclear waste into radioactive 'gold'

David Szondy — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:03:00 GMT

The United States has about 94,000 tonnes of nuclear waste in storage, though that's a bit like calling all that gold in Fort Knox "waste." A new technique is being developed to recover its trapped value, unlocking billions of dollars in reusable fuel and high-value isotopes.

Category: Energy, Engineering

Tags: Nuclear, Nuclear Fission, Waste

Space-saving cuboid tiny house stows a bed beneath its floor

Adam Williams — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:03:00 GMT

This neat little cuboid tiny house is simplicity itself. I say tiny house, but it's really best thought of as an extra bedroom or office on wheels. It has a clever interior that maximizes floorspace with a bed that's hidden under the floor when not in use.

Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

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

Plastic-free vegan leather sees production-scale breakthrough

Maryna Holovnova — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:03:00 GMT

Scientists have been searching for ethical, high-quality alternatives to animal leather, which notoriously comes with environmental costs and ethical compromises. While synthetic alternatives solve the ethical dilemma, many of them are plastic-based and very difficult to recycle. Now, researchers are trying to find an option that checks all the boxes, and the best material for it seems to be … mushrooms.

Category: Materials, Engineering

Tags: VTT Technical Research Centre, American Chemical Society, Mushrooms

CFMoto's liter-class adventure bike lands in the USA for $12,499

Utkarsh Sood — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 07:03:00 GMT

Liter-class motorcycles haven’t exactly been accessible per se. Not just state-of-the-art superbikes that look like Greek goddesses, but even something as rugged and exposed as the Honda Africa Twin comes for upwards of $15,000. CFMoto clearly doesn’t like to play by the conventional rules, and its latest offering takes a direct shot at big-bore ADVs at a fraction of the price.

Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: CFMoto, Adventure Bikes, Off-road, KTM

Review: 2026 Audi SQ5 delivers sensible misbehavior

Aaron Turpen — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 01:03:00 GMT

There is a particular kind of automotive ridiculousness that I find charming. The 2026 Audi SQ5 is a family crossover with five seats, a useful cargo area, and all-wheel drive. It’s also capable of launching itself to 60 mph in 4.6 seconds. Because apparently groceries need to be accelerated urgently.

Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: SUV, Audi, Audi Quattro, Crossover, Reviews

Ferrari just sold a single super-divisive Luce at 62x its asking price

Abhimanyu Ghoshal — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:03:00 GMT

As Ferrari revealed its first electric car to the public over the last few months, it first drew immense praise for the inventive interiors with a focus on physical controls.

Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Ferrari, Auction, Monterey Car Week 2026, Electric Vehicles

Boldly twisted tower lures you into its Escher-like space to spy on birds

Bronwyn Thompson — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:57:00 GMT

A new 19.9-meter (65-ft) tower rises like a brutalist-inspired, twisted monolith above its rural surroundings, providing a space for watching migratory birds that populate Wuhan's Chenhu Wetland, China.

Category: Architecture, Engineering

Tags: China, Engineering, Birds, nature, Art, Experience, Structure

HoverAir's latest flyer eradicates divide between pocket cam and drone

Monica J. White — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:17:00 GMT

The line between a pocket camera and a drone keeps getting blurrier, and HoverAir has just about erased it. The company, which helped pioneer the self-flying camera, has now shared full specifications for the Versa, the palm-sized gimbal camera it teased earlier this month. We covered the initial reveal when the Versa first broke cover, and this follow-up digs into the numbers behind the concept.

Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Flying-cam, Cameras, drones, Camera drone, Gimbals, Indiegogo, xxAffiliate

Tiny titanium keyring puts a versatile toolkit in your pocket

Abhimanyu Ghoshal — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:49:07 GMT

This new piece of EDC gear we've spotted looks like a handy little screwdriver with bit storage. However, it serves two additional functions beyond fastening that make it practical for more than just DIY projects and repairs.

Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors

Tags: EDC, Titanium, Tools, xxKickbooster, Kickstarter

New controller makes operating an excavator almost instinctive

Omar Kardoudi — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:33:00 GMT

Watching skilled excavator operators work is almost hypnotic. They make it look so easy that the machine seems to move like an extension of the operator's own arm. That intuition usually takes years to build, but a new controller from MIT engineers compresses that learning curve to a single session.

Category: Robotics, Engineering

Tags: Robotics, MIT, Interface, Robotic construction, Construction

NASA abandons orbit-boost attempt to rescue Swift space telescope

David Szondy — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 06:00:32 GMT

The mission to rescue NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory space telescope may be in need of some rescuing itself. Due to multiple malfunctions in the LINK spacecraft's attitude control system, space engineers have decided to abandon the boost attempt.

Category: Space Systems, Engineering

Tags: Swift Satellite, NASA, Satellite

'Light pumping' bends beams in femtoseconds toward faster computing

Malcolm Azania — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 23:03:00 GMT

As sighted creatures, humans have always used light for communication through body language, writing, smoke signals, and more. Harnessing invisible frequencies of light such as radio massively expanded our communication range, while hyper-focusing light into lasers tremendously increased communication fidelity. And sending lasers through fiber optic cables meant communication that was free from the tyranny of straight line-transmission.

Category: Engineering

Tags: Caltech, Light, Optical Computing

Plug-n-play US camper pod turns a bare van into a homey RV in 1 hour

C.C. Weiss — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:47:00 GMT

I want the camper van ... but without tying myself to one van. That's essentially what spinoff brand Hunker sells with its new slide-in camper system. An all-in-one camper van floor plan on roller skates, the Hunker Pod turns an empty Ram Promaster into a warm, inviting camper van with kitchen, dining area, queen bed and toilet – no time-sucking DIY conversion work, no six-figure custom build, and no bottomless pit of never-ending obstacles and expenses. The pod and van combined cost well less than most US-market fully built camper vans, and the Hunker Pod will even outlast the van itself, installing in a new van just as easily as the first time.

Category: Campervans, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: camper-in-a-box, Campervan, RV, Modular, RAM, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, Van

Top 10 tiny houses that showcase the extremes of small living

Adam Williams — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:03:00 GMT

Tiny houses come in all shapes and sizes nowadays. Some models push toward the upper limits of what can reasonably be considered a portable home, while others embrace extreme downsizing. Here are 10 of our favorites from both ends of the spectrum.

Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

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

Tiny turtles to cuttlefish combat: 2026 photo winners revealed

Bronwyn Thompson — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:01:00 GMT

It's that time of the year again – when nature photo competition winners are announced and we get to look at some amazing images that remind us that the world is made up of more than AI slop. For now, anyway.

Category: Photography, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Animal science, Photographers, Awards, Animals, Marine Biology, Ecology

New timber office tower to become tallest in the USA

Adam Williams — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:07:00 GMT

Plans have been revealed for an ambitious wooden high-rise in Bellevue, Washington, that will set a new height record. The timber tower will rise to a height of 180 ft (54.8 m), making it the tallest mass timber office building in the United States once completed.

Category: Architecture, Engineering

Tags: Building and Construction, Timber, cross-laminated timber, Office, Skyscrapers

Fast-fold mini e-scooter powers a smooth urban commute

Simon Heptinstall — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:56:50 GMT

Chinese mini-transport engineering company Blizwheel has spent years evolving lightweight electric scooters that fold like origami to become small enough to vanish inside a standard backpack. Its latest version is perhaps the best yet.

Category: Urban Transport, Transport

Tags: xxKickbooster, Kickstarter, Electric Vehicles, Scooter

Yamaha brings its smallest roadster to the West

Utkarsh Sood — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 07:39:06 GMT

Personally, I’ve always loved the Yamaha XSR lineup. I think the 700 and 900 are brilliant-looking motorcycles that most people can hop on, ride practically anywhere, and have a ball while doing so. They offer something for modern motorcycle enthusiasts alongside a dose of authentic retro style.

Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Yamaha, America, Affordable, Kawasaki, Honda Motorcycles, Retro

A ‘living GLP-1 drug’ could revolutionize diabetes treatment

Mike McRae — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:18:05 GMT

Bacteria engineered to sense and reduce glucose levels could be the future of type 2 diabetes treatments, following pre-clinical trials on animal models.

Category: Diabetes, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind, Refractor: Science & Health

Tags: Type 2 diabetes, GLP-1 receptor agonists, Weight Loss, Probiotic, Diet

AI-guided chain gun fires steerable bullets to shred drone swarms

David Szondy — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 01:06:31 GMT

Northrop Grumman has unveiled its Raid Hunter chain gun system, adding a new layer to anti-drone swarm defenses by combining cutting-edge AI sensors, precision-guided ammunition, and a motor-driven chain gun feed firing up to 200 rounds per minute.

Category: Military, Engineering

Tags: Northrop Grumman, Missile Defense, drones

Programmable photonic chip could unlock light-speed optical computing

Etiido Uko — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 23:03:00 GMT

We want faster and faster computers, and light is the fastest thing in the universe. Therefore, light-based computers should be awesome. Right? Not quite. Computing isn't always about data arriving fast. Sometimes it's about arriving on cue. We have learned how to force light to calm down, but today’s hardware matches a specific design to a specific speed. But how do we command light to arrive faster or slower, using the same hardware?

Category: Computing, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Seoul National University, Light, Optical Computing, Photonics

World-first eVTOL vertiport gets the green light

Etiido Uko — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:03:00 GMT

Ever been stuck in traffic and wished you could simply fly above it all, straight to your destination? Well, that dream is one step closer to reality, as the world's first airport for flying taxis has just received the regulatory green light.

Category: Aircraft, Transport

Tags: eVTOL, urban transport, Electric Aircraft

Landmark study upends how we think the brain responds to psychedelics

Mike McRae — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:00:00 GMT

Psychedelics are inherently chaotic drugs, dissolving the boundary between self and surrounds by sowing discord in the brain.

Category: Mental Health, Brain Health, Body and Mind, Refractor: Science & Health

Tags: Psychedelic Medicine, psilocybin, mental health, Brain, Pharmaceuticals, Monash University, neurons

Blu-ray burner doubles as USB hub and card reader

Monica J. White — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:34:30 GMT

Modern laptops are the thinnest they’ve ever been. But this sleek form factor has a cost: optical drives are a thing of the past, full-size USB ports are becoming less common, and card readers are often an optional extra. BluHub is aiming to restore a lot of this lost connectivity via a single box.

Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: xxKickbooster, Kickstarter, Blu-ray, DVD, CD Player, USB 3.0, Connectivity

'Blockbuster' one-shot low back pain drug in the home stretch of final test

Bronwyn Thompson — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:02:27 GMT

A highly anticipated drug trial is in its final stages as its 350 participants receive their single dose to treat chronic low back pain. If successful, the experimental medication could be a breakthrough therapeutic for people with the common but debilitating condition.

Category: Chronic Pain, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind, Refractor: Science & Health

Tags: Cells, Back Pain, Low back pain, clinical trials, Regenerative Medicine, Chronic pain, Age-Related

Lucid's new 1,070-hp SUV aims to change the American luxury game

Simon Heptinstall — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:33:00 GMT

Unveiled amid the high-octane glamour and pristine lawns of the Monterey Car Week in California, the Lucid Gravity GT-S is a direct assault on the most lucrative auto segment in North America.

Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Lucid Motors, SUV, Electric Vehicles, Luxury, Monterey Car Week 2026

The Minimal Phone 2 encourages you to type, not scroll

Abhimanyu Ghoshal — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:03:00 GMT

Los Angeles-based The Minimal Company specializes in stripped-down phones that put just a handful of essential tools in your pocket and leave out the distracting stuff. Its latest model marks a major departure, while aiming to stay true to the vision of reducing your screen time.

Category: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Smartphones, Android, Minimalist, Kickstarter

German multitool's badge flashes deeper history than Swiss Army knife

C.C. Weiss — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:47:00 GMT

The white cross with red surround has long been a sacred badge in the world of knives, indicating the timeless dependability and versatility of the Swiss Army knife. The latest multifunctional pocket knife to float onto our computer screen isn't a white cross-badged Swiss Army knife, but it wears an equally proud badge of origin and heritage. The newly released Böker Treebrand Camp Knife is a purely German design, its roots winding back hundreds of years to the 17th century.

Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Multitools, EDC, Everyday Carry, Knife, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, Backpacking

Taylor Swift’s ties to a rise in fatal US car accidents

Mike McRae — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:26:00 GMT

As a fan of old-school '90s rock and grunge, I can’t say I’m much of a Swifty. Still, it’s hard to ignore the fact that Taylor Swift’s albums are immensely popular, even before the Eras Tour swept the globe.

Category: Society & Community, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind, Refractor: Science & Health

Tags: Smartphones, Music Streaming, Spotify, Traffic, Accidents, Crash

38-ft tiny house goes extra wide for a more livable layout

Adam Williams — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:03:00 GMT

With its length of 38 ft (11.6 m) and increased width of 10 ft (3 m), the Retirement Retreat isn't the smallest tiny house on the market, but all that space is cleverly used to provide an interior that's more like a small apartment than a typical towable home.

Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

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

The extraordinary engineering that builds nature's only straight tusk

Bronwyn Thompson — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:01:00 GMT

The narwhal's defining feature – its continuously growing tusk – is the only straight structure of its kind seen in nature. Now, scientists have cracked the code on how these elusive Arctic whales grow such an impressive and unique tool.

Category: Biology, Science, Refractor: Science & Health

Tags: Marine Biology, Whale, Marine Innovations, Tools, Biomechanics, Sensory, Teeth, Arctic

Retro e-paper alarm clock puts kibosh on late-night phone scrolling

Monica J. White — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:40:01 GMT

Designed in Copenhagen, the Habity bedside clock swaps your phone screen's glow for an eye-friendly e-paper display, gentle wake-up tones, and a local library of sleep sounds, all running fully offline with no app, account, or subscription.

Category: Around The Home, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: E-Ink, ePaper, Clock

Modular hiking stick cleverly hides essential tools for the trail

Abhimanyu Ghoshal — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:51:32 GMT

I'm always happy to discover outdoor gear that's designed to take up less room and allow you to pack light. This trekking pole falls squarely in that category, and does a lot more than you'd expect at first glance.

Category: Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Hiking, Camping, Tools, xxKickbooster, Kickstarter, Modular

Stylish camper cube fuses two iconic tiny trailer types into new form

C.C. Weiss — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 05:03:00 GMT

Seamlessly bringing together the worlds of teardrop-size off-road trailers and molded egg campers, Oregon's Motsmann Engineering presents an equally compelling alternative that feels both vintage and brand new. It's the all-new Outranger camping trailer, and it relies on a molded composite construction shaped into a squarer form. It comes fully armed for off-roading, ready to camp in the most serene, scenic dispersed campsites you have the balls to chase down in your pickup, 4x4 or crossover.

Category: Camping Trailers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: teardrop trailers, Caravan, RV, Trailer, trailers, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, Off-road

Gallery: Inside the strange afterlife of Korea's abandoned theme park

Bronwyn Thompson — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:02:41 GMT

Fifteen years after owners switched off the rides for the last time, an eerie and rusted amusement park happily in decay in Seoul's outskirts has become one of the city's coolest attractions.

Category: Holiday Destinations, Outdoors

Tags: korea, South Korea, History, Photography, Theme Parks, Amusement Park, Travel, Time Travel, Cats

'Phantom earthquakes' can haunt your brain long after tremors stop

Bronwyn Thompson — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:59:45 GMT

Some time around February 2025, after experiencing a handful of tremors at home in my Taipei apartment (tremors, mind you, that locals wouldn't blink an eye at), I began feeling quakes that weren't there – especially when still, in bed, at night.

Category: Environment, Science, Refractor: Science & Health

Tags: Earthquake, Signal Processing, Neuroscience, nature, Geology, Brain, neurons

Gruesome ingredient has kept these 2,000-year-old rock artworks alive

Mike McRae — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:21:00 GMT

An extensive gallery of ancient rock art paintings in Southern China has long intrigued archaeologists by somehow surviving the brutal tropical elements for around 2,000 years.

Category: Archaeology, Science, Refractor: Science & Health

Tags: China, Archeology, ancient, Blood, Art, tribes, History

Unmanned undersea vehicle demoes launch capability

David Szondy — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:03:00 GMT

The US Navy scored a first as it carried out a submerged undersea launch of its new low-cost, long-endurance unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) called HADALUS at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, where the vessel performed a series of sea trials.

Category: Military, Engineering

Tags: Raytheon, US Navy, Submarine, Autonomous Vehicles

Volkswagen California concept camper van alters the trajectory

C.C. Weiss — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:43:52 GMT

Volkswagen is already bringing a rather outside-the-box California camper van concept to this year's Düsseldorf Caravan Salon, but it has no intention of stopping there. It will also introduce a prognostic concept that solves a modern mystery once and for all. It's called the ID. California Cruise, and it's a first look at a family of all-electric camper vans Volkswagen plans to roll out over the coming years.

Category: Campervans, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: Volkswagen, electric-camper, Concept Vehicle, Campervan, mini-campervan, dusseldorf-caravan-salon-2026, Camping, Outdoors and Camping

Polaris injects pneumatic shifting into expedition-grade side-by-side

Aaron Turpen — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:28:00 GMT

Polaris has unveiled a new continuously variable transmission (CVT) in its 2027 Xpedition utility. The transmission builds on the current mechanical CVT by adding pneumatics to soften noise and harshness when maximum rpm are not needed.

Category: Outdoors

Tags: utv, Polaris, Side-by-side, CVT

Your own personal poison-snooper as a wearable skin patch

Malcolm Azania — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:57:13 GMT

An alcoholic drink will give you a buzz, but if someone laced it with something dangerous, a new poison-snooping patch will buzz your skin to warn you. It can also detect heavy metals in water and toxic aerosols, and can work as an e-skin for robots.

Category: Wearables, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: North Carolina State University, wearable electronics, Poisons, Electronic skin, Haptics

1,600-hp CCGT1 is Koenigsegg's most performant track weapon ever

Abhimanyu Ghoshal — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:43:30 GMT

Koenigsegg is paying tribute to one of its cars from over a decade ago, which never got the chance to tear up racetracks like it was designed to do. That show of respect comes in the form of the incredible CCGT1.

Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Hypercar, Koenigsegg, track car, Road

Insane 940-foot Chinese cliff elevator dramatically cuts school commute

Bronwyn Thompson — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:03:00 GMT

A breathtaking plunge in an elevator down the side of a canyon has opened, drastically increasing capacity and making what was once a six-hour round trip even shorter. It's now down to around 30 minutes.

Category: Engineering

Tags: China, Architects, Engineering, Elevator, Infrastructure

'World's lightest' tent dives below 2 lb, still handles 100-km/h wind

C.C. Weiss — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 20:38:00 GMT

When ultralight backpacking boutique Durston Gear launched the X-Dome 1+ freestanding tent in 2024, anyone familiar with the brand knew it wasn't going to be the lightest in the series. That's because Durston has an established history of going even lighter (and more expensive) with Dyneema "Pro" models of its shelters. So we've been waiting, and now it's here: The X-Dome Pro 1+ debuts to claims of being "world's lightest freestanding double-wall tent," and it looks like an exceptional piece of gear for any backpacking or ultralight kit.

Category: Tents, Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Tent, durston-gear, Backpacking, Bikepacking, Camping, Dyneema, Lightweight, World's Lightest

Extra-wide tiny house makes more space for family living

Adam Williams — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:03:00 GMT

Downsizing to a tiny house with a family in tow is always going to be a challenge, but the Kookaburra 2.0 has been carefully designed to smooth the process along. The towable home features two bedrooms, a bathroom with a bathtub, and plenty of storage throughout.

Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

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

Diesel-electric revival tech builds more capable HD semi trucks

Abhimanyu Ghoshal — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:03:00 GMT

Over the last few years, Donald, Canada-based Edison Motors has been working on developing its own line of diesel-electric semi trucks. It's not a sophisticated auto industry player, but a tiny startup with people who know and love trucking.

Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Truck, Diesel, Canada, Hybrid, Electric

BMW's weird Minecraft-like car harvests more energy than it uses

Simon Heptinstall — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:03:00 GMT

Even the most forgiving automotive designers might struggle to find a flattering angle on the Deep Orange 17.

Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: BMW, Clemson University, Prototype, Solar Powered, Electric Vehicles, Energy Positive

Mitsubishi is making this Pininfarina-designed e-crossover for Australia

Abhimanyu Ghoshal — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 05:03:00 GMT

Mitsubishi makes only a handful of EVs across its global markets, but it's finally getting around to expanding its lineup with a beauty. Australia will get this handsome crossover later this year.

Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Electric Vehicles, Mitsubishi, Pininfarina

Buick's $25K electric car will remain unavailable to many eager buyers

Utkarsh Sood — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 23:03:00 GMT

While Chevrolet's Ultium lineup continues to chase higher price points in North America, GM’s Buick brand has quietly launched its sleek, tech-laden Electra L7 sedan in China for around US$25,000 – exactly the kind of value-packed EV many American buyers have been begging for.

Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: GM, Chevrolet, Buick, Electric Vehicles, China, Sedan

Stilted tiny house takes stripped-back approach to small living

Adam Williams — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:03:00 GMT

This timber retreat is small on home comforts but big on simple rustic charm. Designed to serve as a short-stay vacation home, it features a deliberately stripped-back interior that provides the basics needed for two people to relax, sleep, and enjoy the view.

Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, Shelter, Treehouse

Containerized GHOST system puts rocket launch infrastructure on the go

David Szondy — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:03:00 GMT

Land-based launch sites for orbital rockets just got the flat-pack treatment as Rocket Lab announced its Global Hypersonic & Orbital Spaceport Technology (GHOST) system. The initiative packs a complete launch system into standard shipping containers.

Category: Military, Engineering

Tags: Rocket Lab, US Space Force, Rocket, Launch

OpenAI's Jony Ive-designed AI device targets home use

Howard Armitage — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:03:00 GMT

After more than a year of rumors about what legendary former Apple designer Jony Ive and OpenAI might be building together, we finally have a reasonably clear idea.

Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology

Tiny e-truck does real work – tows more than Ford and Toyota pickups

Utkarsh Sood — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 05:03:00 GMT

How does a mini electric truck that’s barely longer than a Mini Cooper tow more than most modern-day pickup trucks twice its size? I’m talking about the Telo MT1, the compact truck that was already on par with most midsize gas trucks in terms of its towing capacity.

Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Electric Vehicles, Pickup, Truck, Electric truck, Cybertruck, Ford, Tacoma, Compact

Dreame D30 Ultra robovac review: This is what $540 gets you

Joe Salas — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 02:01:18 GMT

I recently reviewed the top-o'-the-line Narwal Flow 2 – my very first robovac ever, so I got a taste of the "country-club-rich-guy life," and it did not disappoint. The thing absolutely rocks. At $1,400, I'd hope so. If I bought it as a consumer rather than being given a unit for review, I'd be big mad if it didn't work.

Category: Around The Home, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Vacuum cleaner, Vacuum, Cleaning, Reviews, Wet and dry vacuum cleaner, Automation