New Atlas: Technology-Innovation-Outdoor News

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

Iconic motorcycle builder bests Polaris and Can-Am at their own game

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

Qantas Airbus A350-1000ULR sets world-record longest commercial flight

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

VW's latest California camper van launches in UK with all-night A/C

C.C. Weiss — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 02:37:00 GMT

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Volkswagen gave its iconic California camper van a mid-cycle refresh earlier this year. Beyond snoozy updates like a reshaped grille and larger digital displays, the van life icon gained one highly desirable new capability: an upgraded climate control system that runs off the plug-in hybrid battery for hours on end. Campers enjoy the utmost in year-round comfort without the expense and bulk of an auxiliary camp heater or A/C unit. The revamped camper van is now officially available to order in the UK.

Category: Campervans, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

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

Lifespan boosted by unexpected form of bone manipulation

Mike McRae — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 02:07:44 GMT

Your skeleton has a demanding day job, pumping out fresh new blood cells and serving as a mineral bank for calcium, not to mention keeping your head up and preventing your organs from collapsing into a disappointing puddle.

Category: Fitness & Exercise, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind

Tags: Aging, Bones, Exercise, anti-aging, China, Age-Related

10-in-1 ratchet multitool lays down torque in multiple ways

C.C. Weiss — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 21:33:00 GMT

Nextool has already proven that you don't have to choose between a multitool with pliers and one with an adjustable wrench: you can have both, staying extra prepared for every small hardware disaster real life throws in front of you. The all-new W20 Pro makes an even stronger argument in favor of this setup than the brand's past releases. The right-sized pocket powerhouse packs an 10-strong feature set with an adjustable, dual-mode ratchet wrench, multi-jaw pliers, a bit driver and more.

Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Multitools, Wrench, EDC, Everyday Carry, Tools

Lab-in-a-box lets filmmakers develop their own movie film at home

Ben Coxworth — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 19:19:15 GMT

For a really rich, organic, textured look, many low-budget filmmakers still shoot on 8-mm or 16-mm analog film – but getting the stuff processed is a major hassle. That's where Frank comes in, as it allows users to process their own film at home.

Category: Photography, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Filmmaking, Indiegogo, Film Cameras

Sony shrinks glasses-free 3D tech into 6-inch desktop character display

Monica J. White — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 15:57:07 GMT

Glasses-free 3D has had its share of false starts, but the idea of a little window into a three-dimensional world sitting on your desk just won't go away. We've seen it take shape with the Looking Glass Factory's portable Go display, which adds depth to photos and AI chatbot characters, while Sony has been quietly refining its own eye-tracking Spatial Reality Display monitors for a few years.

Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Sony, Display, Portable, Immersion, 3D Systems

Robot moth grows new sensor using its own blood

Omar Kardoudi — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 11:47:41 GMT

Robots usually leave the factory with every sensor they'll ever have bolted on. But what if they could grow new ones when needed? Scientists have now built a moth-shaped robot that uses chemicals in its artificial blood to do just that.

Category: Robotics, Engineering

Tags: Self-Assembly, Soft Robotics, Sensors, Robots, 3D Printing, University of Tartu, Italian Institute of Technology

Norton, we need to talk about your new 450cc naked motorcycle

Utkarsh Sood — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 06:18:00 GMT

I’ve been very vocal about just how far Norton has come in its comeback. I’ve loved the new design direction the brand has taken, and having personally ridden their new crop of motorcycles, I can honestly say that the TVS-backed British brand might be onto something.

Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Norton Motorcycle, EICMA 2026, Naked bike, Small-displacement

One gene could explain why autism appears to affect boys more than girls

Mike McRae — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 04:06:11 GMT

Autism’s striking sex difference has long presented researchers with a puzzle. Why are boys diagnosed around three to four times as often as girls, when the genes associated with autism aren’t confined to either group?

Category: Mental Health, Brain Health, Body and Mind

Tags: Autism spectrum disorder, Brain, Sex and gender

Hopping, flying robot gets an all-terrain upgrade

Maryna Holovnova — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 22:28:48 GMT

When it comes to designing modern robots, various researchers are all trying to solve pretty much the same problem: how to make robots that can reach places difficult for humans to access. They’ve come up with robots that can swim underwater, crawl through rubble, and land on tree branches like birds.

Category: Robotics, Engineering

Tags: University of Toronto, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, locomotion

Huge RV supplier brings camper comforts to dual-room rooftop tent

C.C. Weiss — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 20:37:00 GMT

Dometic is a brand name so ubiquitous across the RV market, you're unlikely to go a full day in the segment without seeing it pop up somewhere – a stove, an air conditioner, a sink. Over the past decade, the Swedish staple has moved well beyond traditional motorhomes and caravans, into lighter, more flexible types of vehicle-based camping, purchasing brands like overlanding pioneer Front Runner while launching its own RV-without-the-RV hardware. The new Out-Post rooftop tent (RTT) brings those two worlds closer together. It looks like a standard family tent on the outside but comes embellished inside with RV-like features such as a room divider, convertible sofa-bed and stowable dining table.

Category: Tents, Gear, Outdoors

Tags: roof-top tent, Tent, dometic, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, RV, dusseldorf-caravan-salon-2026

Your teeth could soon be protected by a futuristic force field

Mike McRae — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 19:01:00 GMT

For all the engineering packed into modern electric toothbrushes, cleaning your teeth still largely amounts to little more than sweeping a miniature broom around your mouth to inconvenience your tiny squatters.

Category: Technology

Tags: Toothbrush, Bacteria, Teeth, Hygiene

Portable keyboard hiding full Windows PC borrows your tablet's screen

Monica J. White — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 15:26:35 GMT

Hero Devices wants to turn the screen you already own into a proper Windows computer, with a slim keyboard that carries the entire PC inside it. It includes a full-sized trackpad, and looks almost exactly like the bottom half of a laptop.

Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Keyboard, PC, Windows, Portable, Productivity

26-ft-long tiny house makes every inch of space count

Adam Williams — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:13:50 GMT

At just 26 ft (7.9 m) long, this towable tiny house doesn't have a huge amount of room to play with, but its space-saving layout manages to squeeze in a comfortable home for two. It features a kitchen, a living room, as well as a bedroom tucked into the loft.

Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

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

Americans can now order a US-made tabletop humanoid for under $12,000

Bronwyn Thompson — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 03:14:29 GMT

Meet Aria, Mila, Dave and Amar – the first four models coming out of Las Vegas-based humanoid company Realbotix. To make them more affordable than what consumers are likely to have to pay for ambulatory humanoids for at least a few years, the makers have decided to focus on the top half.

Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology

Tags: Robot Factory, Artificial, Launch, Man-made, AI agent

New Triumph adventure bike packs radar and self-lowering suspension

Utkarsh Sood — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 02:53:27 GMT

Remember when Triumph sneakily gave the world a glimpse of the new Tiger 1200 on Sam Sunderland’s world-record attempt? Well, the real deal’s finally here, and much of what was anticipated on the latest and greatest Tiger has also come to life.

Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Triumph, Adventure Bikes, BMW Motorrad, Off-road, Radar, Active Suspension

Watch: Robots race up 3,100 ancient steps on clear path to beat US tech

Bronwyn Thompson — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:57 GMT

While robot dogs feel like old news now, setting them the challenge of racing up more than 3,000 uneven stone steps on the side of a mountain is more than just to show off what machines with legs can do. It's a huge lesson in their training.

Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology

Tags: China, Beijing, Unitree, Future Robot, Mountain, step-count, Outdoor Technology

Kia Weekender tiny camper amplifies van life on a whole new continent

C.C. Weiss — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 20:37:00 GMT

Since launching in 2025, the Kia PV5 has brought some big, new energy to the camper van scenes in debut markets like South Korea and Europe. And we're not talking solely about its all-electric energy, but about the fact that it's becoming something of a modern day Volkswagen T1 in offering a fun-sized base van representing boundless road-trip freedom. Now, another continent gets to experience that same energy, as KombiLife brings to market what it hails as "Australia's first PV5 camper:" the Kia Weekender.

Category: Campervans, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: mini-campervan, Campervan, Kia, electric-camper, RV, Camping, Outdoors and Camping

Crafty cover lets DIY biker keep cycling in the rain

Ben Coxworth — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 16:43:42 GMT

It's all very well and good to hear what big companies like Apple and Toyota are up to, but if you really want to be inspired, there's nothing like seeing what regular folks have made in their own backyards and garages. Quandell Williams is just such a maker, and his DIY weatherproof ebike enclosure is definitely inspirational.

Category: Bicycles, Transport

Tags: ebikes, DIY, Weatherproof, Cycling

Honda mixes motorcycle heritage with high-end mountain climber

Simon Heptinstall — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:02:35 GMT

Honda is the undisputed king of two-wheeled transportation, selling more than 20.5 million motorized bikes annually. That’s 40% of the entire global motorcycle market.

Category: Bicycles, Transport

Tags: Honda, EICMA 2026, ebikes, Mountain Bikes, Pedal-assisted