New Atlas: Technology-Innovation-Outdoor News

Old-school lens tool lets cine cameras shoot two POVs at once

Ben Coxworth — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:37:00 GMT

While adding visual effects in post-production has its advantages, there's also something to be said for shooting them right in-camera. That's where the Sterimax comes in, as it allows cinematographers to simultaneously overlay two points of view (POVs).

Category: Photography, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Filmmaking, Lens

Non-electric washing machine chalks up big win for low-tech ingenuity

Malcolm Azania — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:03:20 GMT

Over much of the planet, women tend to do more unpaid domestic work than men do – much more. A 2025 Centre for Global Development study reported that across 50 countries, “women spend an average of 29.92 hours weekly on domestic work as a primary activity, while men spend only 9.78.”

Category: Good Thinking, Technology

Tags: Washing Machine, Clothing, Charity, Human-Powered

Light-powered ePaper screen adds art to your wall without a charger

Abhimanyu Ghoshal — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:50:52 GMT

A new gadget we've just come across might be the best piece of decor you'll add to your home this year. It's arguably the first-ever ePaper display that can display art and photos using nothing but the power of the Sun.

Category: Around The Home, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Home decor, Art, Digital Photo Frame, Artificial Intelligence, xxKickbooster, Kickstarter, Solar Powered, ePaper

Review: $300 smart treadmill is ideal for work and working out at home

Bronwyn Thompson — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:17:29 GMT

The Urevo FoldiMix 5L Smart Treadmill is a surprise package that combines a standing-desk workstation and a quality training machine in one, which is built to last and runs so quietly your colleagues will never know you're on it during a video meeting.

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

Tags: Treadmill, Exercise, Walk, Running, Health, Reviews

Lab-grown brains can now read Braille and guide robot dogs

Mike McRae — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:02:00 GMT

Guided by millions of years of evolution, our own brain cells know a thing or two about moving through a chaotic world where learning the right move is a matter of life and death.

Category: Technology

Tags: biohybrid, organoid, Brain Machine Interface, Future Robot, neurons

Ukrainian hexacopter drone executes world-first aerial medevac

David Szondy — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:00:01 GMT

A wounded Ukrainian soldier is the first to be medevaced out of a combat zone by drone. He was airlifted by a Heavy Shot "Ayudag-6" modular hexacopter with a special sling and winch.

Category: Military, Engineering

Tags: Ukraine , drones

Atari's 800XL returns with a keyboard, cartridges and BASIC

Howard Armitage — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 02:02:00 GMT

Atari's 1983 home computer is coming back with modern connections, 25 classic games and a working cartridge slot. But the most interesting feature might be the opportunity to write your own software again.

Category: Computing, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Atari, Basic, Retro, Computers

XL tiny house has room for you, your family, and some friends too

Adam Williams — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:03:00 GMT

With its roomy interior, this XL model offers an experience that's closer to an apartment on wheels than a typical tiny house. It includes lots of living space and, thanks to its clever layout, can sleep up to eight people under one roof – as long as a couple are happy to rough it on a sofa bed.

Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

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

Pint-sized Leatherman is the go-to for gourmet meals in the wild

C.C. Weiss — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:37:00 GMT

We’ve had some commenters wonder aloud recently why new multitools tend not to incorporate a corkscrew. Well this one’s for those commenters and any other vino lovers who demand a corkscrew in their pocket. Leatherman’s latest Garage-developed limited edition, the new Picnic tool lives up to its name with a proper waiter-style leveraged corkscrew and five additional tools designed for picnics, tailgates, camp cookouts and other culinary affairs held away from home in the great outdoors.

Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Leatherman, Multitools, EDC, Wine, Outdoors and Camping, Camping, Picnic, tailgating, Everyday Carry

Wall-hugging 4K tri-laser projector is super bright and snappy

Paul Ridden — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:33:12 GMT

Let's face it, even the prettiest lifestyle projectors can rub the living-room vibe the wrong way. UST designs minimize that jarring effect by snuggling up close to the wall, and specialist AWOL Vision has a bright new bundle of joy that's almost ready for action.

Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Projectors, 4K UHD, Google TV, bRight, Laser TV, Gaming, Sports, Movies, Streaming

Discreet tactical pen packs 5 emergency tools for the outdoors

Abhimanyu Ghoshal — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:27:00 GMT

Hardware brand MeTool has packed a versatile multitool for outdoorspeople into a pen – making it easy to carry a bunch of essentials on you at all times without adding bulk. The SceptriX features a sturdy titanium build that's made to brave the elements, and it looks the part too.

Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors

Tags: Titanium, Multitools, xxKickbooster, Kickstarter, EDC

Switchable torque/cadence ebike brings heavy value in a light package

Simon Heptinstall — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:17:55 GMT

Affordable electric bikes usually mean enduring heavy frames, clunky kick-in for the motor and unrefined, unpredictable power delivery.

Category: Bicycles, Transport

Tags: ebikes, Pedal-assisted, Affordable, City, urban transport

What's inside Sony's $5,900 Walkman for obsessive audiophiles?

Abhimanyu Ghoshal — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 07:18:23 GMT

As Sony's lineup of portable audio devices has evolved over the years, it's veered towards more discerning listeners. It's just dropped its most expensive Walkman yet: the US$5,900 NW-WM1ZM3.

Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Audio, Portable Audio, Sony, Walkman, High-resolution, Audiophile

Sun-activated insert sucks the stink out of hot garbage

Maryna Holovnova — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:03:00 GMT

If you live in a colder part of the world, the smell coming from outdoor garbage bins might not seem like that big of a deal. But in hot, humid countries, odors from municipal waste can be a serious problem. Sunlight and heat make garbage left outside decompose faster and spread more odors.

Category: Materials, Engineering

Tags: Odor, Smell, American Chemical Society, Sunlight, Waste

Mushroom peptide makes salt taste 70% saltier – and it's good for you

Bronwyn Thompson — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:03:00 GMT

Food is one of the true pleasures of life, and often part of our enjoyment comes from flavors enhanced by salt. But too much of a good thing can be bad. Scientists have uncovered a promising workaround, using naturally derived peptides that make salt taste saltier, greatly reducing the amount we need to add to food for the same taste.

Category: Diet & Nutrition, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind

Tags: Blood Pressure, Hypertension, Food, Food technology, Heart health, Mushrooms, Salt

Compact A-frame tiny house makes room for a few home comforts

Adam Williams — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 16:03:00 GMT

Mini Domy has plenty of experience with A-frame houses. It provides a lot of space with its Brda, while its mini version is much more limited. This one comes somewhere in between, still keeping things very compact but adding some home comforts too.

Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

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

Heat-storing gels regulate building temp to slash energy bills

Omar Kardoudi — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 13:03:00 GMT

An emerging class of heat-storing gels is out to reduce the energy our buildings burn on heating and cooling. Initial tests look promising, so researchers are lining up roofs, walls, windows and even hot-water and AC modules as the next stops.

Category: Materials, Engineering

Tags: Heating, Storage, Construction, Texas A&M Universty

Killer cotton eradicates microbes using ordinary white light

Ben Coxworth — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 08:03:00 GMT

There could be new hope in the fight against hospital-acquired infections. Spanish scientists have developed an experimental type of self-disinfecting cotton fabric, which is activated via ordinary white light.

Category: Materials, Engineering

Tags: Textile, Cotton, Antibacterial, Viruses and Bacteria, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Light

Honda has an easier way to charge electric cars

Utkarsh Sood — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:03:00 GMT

Regardless of how far EV tech comes, juicing up a car may never be as effortless as pumping gas in an ICE car. Even BYD’s fastest chargers as of now take 9 minutes to take you up to 97%. While I’m sure we’re headed towards a future with even shorter charge times, Honda’s idea for EV charging seems like the most viable solution.

Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Honda, Charging, Wireless Charging, EV Charging, Electric Vehicles

Brain-like synapse chip computes at 'lightning speed', dissolves in mins

Etiido Uko — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 02:03:00 GMT

The remarkable human brain that conceived heart surgery and interplanetary travel runs on roughly the same amount of energy as a refrigerator bulb, thanks to its trillions of synapses. Scientists are now trying to replicate this ability with printable, flexible, biocompatible, and recyclable artificial synapses that don't require the rigid metals and complex manufacturing processes used in existing artificial synapse components.

Category: Quantum Computing, Science

Tags: Synaptics, Artificial Intelligence, Biomimicry, Brain, Soft Robotics

Musician's multitool destroys your excuses for not practicing guitar

Abhimanyu Ghoshal — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 23:03:00 GMT

As a once-starry-eyed musician nearing the age of 40, I totally fell for the promo video for this gadget, which describes how there's a lot of friction in simply getting down to practice or play guitar. The Neko promises to get you rockin' out without having to set stuff up, or waking the neighbors – and it fits in your pocket.

Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Guitar, Guitar Effects, Artificial Intelligence, recording

Fairphone's repairable earbuds get a glow-up in every way

Abhimanyu Ghoshal — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:03:00 GMT

I'll sheepishly admit that I've sometimes looked forward to my gadgets conking out so I can replace them with shiny new upgrades. Don't be like me, folks. That simply adds to the world's growing piles of e-waste, and you usually end up discarding a device that only needs a small component repaired or replaced.

Category: Wearables, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Earbuds, Audio, Portable Audio, Wireless, Fairphone, Repair

Bioinspired robot airdrops into remote waters via morphing wing-sail

Etiido Uko — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:03:00 GMT

“Fall like a maple seed, sail like a boat” sounds like advice from legendary heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali. In reality, it describes a new robotic platform scientists have created for fast, long-term deployment to monitor remote waters.

Category: Robotics, Engineering

Tags: Transformable, Watercraft, Biomimicry, Flight

Who knew subtitles could sing opera?

Omar Kardoudi — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:03:00 GMT

Watching an opera (or a film) in its original language allows you to enjoy the story as its author and performers intended it. Of course, that only makes sense if you understand what is being said, which is why subtitles exist.

Category: Technology

Tags: Epson, Projector, Entertainment, Opera, Subtitling

Mil-spec anti-mosquito fabric is also great for ... strawberries?!!

Maryna Holovnova — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:03:00 GMT

It’s hard to think of two things less related than military uniforms and strawberries. But apparently, they have something in common: a textile called Plant Armor.

Category: Materials, Engineering

Tags: North Carolina State University, Agriculture, Plants, Crops, Textile

Anduril interceptor adapts to emerging threats via swappable stages

David Szondy — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 11:03:00 GMT

Reminding me of those toys where you could swap around parts to make a brand-new toy, Anduril's new Steelfin interceptor missile family uses a two-stage design that allows the vehicle to be quickly reconfigured to counter emerging missile threats.

Category: Military, Engineering

Tags: Missile Defense, Anduril

BYD's flagship e-SUV packs insane 9-minute flash charging

Simon Heptinstall — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 11:03:00 GMT

Chinese automotive giant BYD, now the world’s biggest electric vehicle (EV) maker, stunned this week’s Paris Motor Show with its grandest and most technologically impressive vehicle yet.

Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Paris Motor Show 2026, BYD, EV Charging, SUV, Electric Vehicles

Top 10 tiny houses that transform to beat the squeeze

Adam Williams — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT

By definition, tiny houses pretty much always involve working around constraints, but some designers have found clever ways of making a small home feel like a larger one. From elevating beds to expanding sections to sliding walls and even entire roofs, these 10 homes transform to get maximum use out of a compact space.

Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

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

Vibrant milk carton speakers explode in color and sound

Abhimanyu Ghoshal — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 05:03:00 GMT

If you enjoy minimalist design in your tech, you're going to want to take a closer look at CMF's first portable speakers. Available in two sizes, they resemble milk cartons – in the best way – and have me wanting all four colorways. That might actually not be the worst idea I've ever had.

Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Speakers, Bluetooth Speakers, Speaker, Portable Audio, Nothing

Creality's new K3 printer swaps between four nozzles in seconds

Howard Armitage — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 02:03:00 GMT

For all the extraordinary things that consumer 3D printers can produce, changing color has remained a surprisingly messy business. Want to print something in red, white and blue? Certainly. Just be prepared for the machine to spend a considerable amount of time producing a small mountain of plastic waste alongside your masterpiece.

Category: 3D Printing, Manufacturing, Engineering

Tags: 3D Printers, Waste, Color, creality

Wound-helix robot leaps and bounds over obstacles

Etiido Uko — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 23:03:00 GMT

Remember that “dancing pencils” game schoolchildren played, where they passed two pencils through a small rubber band, twisted them repeatedly, and then let go to make the pencils jump around as the band unraveled? Turns out they were onto some serious futuristic robotics, as scientists are now applying a roughly related principle to facilitate movement in robots.

Category: Robotics, Engineering

Tags: UCLA, locomotion, University of Michigan

DeLorean climbs skyward to race electric flying cars

Abhimanyu Ghoshal — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 21:03:00 GMT

Remember DeLorean, the 80s one-hit automotive wonder whose DMC-12 steel sports car with gullwing doors appeared in Back to the Future? It's making a comeback – by getting into high-speed aerial racing.

Category: Aircraft, Transport

Tags: eVTOL, Flying+Car, Racing, Delorean

Discarded lobster shells hit the greens as biodegradable golf tees

Maryna Holovnova — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:52:57 GMT

The seafood industry in the state of Maine generates approximately 50,000 tons (45,359 tonnes) of lobster shells every year, most of which end up in landfills. Researchers at the University of Maine believed there had to be a better use for this waste. They spent over a decade exploring new ways to give those shells a second life and came up with … golf tees.

Category: Good Thinking, Technology

Tags: University of Maine, Recycling, Biodegradable, Food waste, Golf

Extra-wide tiny house embraces comfortable living on wheels

Adam Williams — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:59:35 GMT

Described by designers Sweet-Haus Tiny Cabin Company as a tiny house with room to breathe, the Tinde actually lives up to that promise. This extra-wide model features a spacious interior and multiple sleeping areas, while a large porch adds some outdoor living space.

Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

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

Brabus' ultra-limited, special-edition e-moto seeks a $50K price tag

Utkarsh Sood — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:27:46 GMT

The electric motorcycle world has never been short on ambitious promises, but a US$50,000 price tag for a bike that tops out at 75 mph (120 km/h) is enough to make even a well-heeled biker do a double take. I’m talking about the Brabus Urban E Fragment Edition, a collaboration between German automotive aftermarket tuning company Brabus, French electric motorcycle maker DAB Motors, and Japanese streetwear designer Hiroshi Fujiwara's Fragment Design.

Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Brabus, DAB, Electric Motorcycles, Carbon Fiber, Most-Expensive

Do the Tesla Roadster's aerial stunts count as flying?

Abhimanyu Ghoshal — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 06:24:16 GMT

Elon Musk is known for blowing hot air, but he's finally delivering on his bold claims of a new Tesla Roadster. It was rumored to be able to fly – and at its launch event, it demonstrated that it could at least leap into the air.

Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Tesla Motors, Tesla, Roadster, Electric Vehicles

U740-Valkyrie Loyal Wingman rockets into maiden flight

David Szondy — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 04:36:38 GMT

After a dramatic, fiery takeoff, Airbus's U740-Valkyrie uncrewed combat aircraft completed its maiden flight on October 12, 2026, in the skies over Northern Europe as part of a program to provide Europe with its own autonomous Loyal Wingman.

Category: Military, Engineering

Tags: Airbus, drones

Instant Air Base: Sikorsky packs Nomad 100 VTOL drone squad in a box

David Szondy — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 02:42:12 GMT

Sikorsky has taken its Nomad 100 VTOL drone and tucked it into a neat package along with its support gear. Known as the Fast Pack, the system uses a standard 20-foot ISO intermodal shipping container to house four Nomad 100 aircraft – two of which can be prepped and launched in as little as 15 minutes.

Category: Military, Engineering

Tags: Sikorsky, Lockheed Martin, drones

Earliest account of a solar storm disrupting tech contained a serious typo

Mike McRae — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:29:43 GMT

For most of human history, our Sun’s occasional tantrums have been of little concern to those of us living on Earth’s surface. At most, the emissions of plasma crashing into our atmosphere might paint the sky in pretty shades of green or pink.

Category: History, Technology

Tags: aurora, Trains, Telegraphy, geomagnetic

Wearable drone detection identifies threats over 3 miles away

David Szondy — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:04:39 GMT

Individual soldiers are getting their own drone protection as Danish defense company MyDefence rolls out Wingman Edge: a wearable that can detect drones by their control radio signals at a distance of up to 3.73 miles (6 km).

Category: Military, Engineering

Tags: drones

Double-barrel smart telescope lets you swap optics like camera lenses

Omar Kardoudi — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:01:00 GMT

Exploring the night sky usually means learning how to use a telescope first. French company Vaonis builds smart telescopes that skip the learning curve. You pick a target from your phone, and the scope's built-in brains find it and track it. Now it's launching Atlas, a modular unit that lets you swap optics as your stargazing ambitions grow.

Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Telescope, Astrophotography, Astronomy, Amateur astronomy

Noise-blocking earbuds adapt to your body's rhythm for restful slumber

Monica J. White — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:33:00 GMT

The second-generation For Me Buds are slimmer, quieter, and better at keeping your sleep data to themselves.

Category: Wearables, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: xxKickbooster, Kickstarter, Sleep, Earbuds, Sleep monitors

Ultra-small tiny house is built for life on the move

Adam Williams — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:27:00 GMT

In a tiny house scene that's increasingly dominated by larger models suitable for families, the Traveler rolls down another path. This affordable tiny house prioritizes compactness and portability, and would suit nomads and those who don't need a lot of extra space.

Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

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

Tri-motor hyper-hatch lands as Peugeot's fastest car ever

Simon Heptinstall — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:34:56 GMT

The Peugeot E-T16 Concept unveiled at this week’s Paris Motor Show is the most powerful, technologically advanced machine the French brand has ever created.

Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Paris Motor Show 2026, Hot hatch, Peugeot, Concept Cars, track car, Electric Vehicles

Battery-free smart glasses monitor your health using blink energy

Omar Kardoudi — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:04:13 GMT

Your eyes blink roughly 14 to 20 times a minute, and every one of those movements is wasted energy. Engineers at Northwestern University have found a way to put that motion energy to work, powering a pair of battery-free health-sensing glasses.

Category: Wearables, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Northwestern University, Smart Glasses, Glasses, Health care, Monitoring, Tracking, Energy, Prototype

An overlooked immune cell offers a way to treat deadliest lung cancers

Mike McRae — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 02:05:48 GMT

An overlooked population of immune cells could offer a new way to attack one of the deadliest forms of lung cancer.

Category: Cancer, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind

Tags: The Immune System, Cancer, Lung cancer, T-cells, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

Quad-transformer camper has space for 2 and a bike shop worth of gear

C.C. Weiss — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 01:33:40 GMT

Last time we looked, Storyteller was launching one of the best adventure camping trucks of 2026. And that was mere months after putting together the first fully integrated Ineos Grenadier 4x4 micro-camper. Now the ever-busy slammin' Alabamians are back with yet another piece of RV innovation. The all-new Gear Mode adds a proper motorcycle-hauling camper to the brand's deepening Sprinter adventure van lineup, but instead of stopping at just a bike, it adds space to carry a veritable locker of accessories or a workshop's worth of parts and tools.

Category: Campervans, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: storyteller-overland, Campervan, RV, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, Off-road, Off-grid, digital nomad

If I could talk to the Main Battle Tank

David Szondy — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:03:00 GMT

If you've ever had an urge to talk to a Main Battle Tank, then General Dynamics Land Systems has your back. Teaming up with Primordial Labs, the company has announced that it will integrate natural language command and control in combat vehicles.

Category: Military, Engineering

Tags: General Dynamics, Tanks, Voice recognition, Interface, Control

Dodge Charger Sixpack is 6 cylinders of bad attitude

Aaron Turpen — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:30:00 GMT

It’s easy to pan the Charger Sixpack as a muscle car wannabe based purely on it having two cylinders less than traditional cars in this genre. Then you drive one. That changes that thinking, and quick.

Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Dodge, Muscle Cars, Sedan, Coupe, Reviews

Tiny drone borrows unexpected feature from rodents

Etiido Uko — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:14:04 GMT

Thanks to their highly sensitive whiskers, which enable them to detect objects within reach before they get too close, rats and mice can hardly relate to the pain of a stubbed toe, despite having eight more toes than humans. This sensory organ lets rats scurry through buildings, sewers, burrows, and countless other environments with ease, regardless of visibility. Beyond touch, whiskers can also detect vibrations and even subtle air currents.

Category: Drones, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Navigation, Biomimicry, Obstacle avoidance

Zero DSR motorcycle smashes range record by 40%

Utkarsh Sood — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:04:31 GMT

Zero Motorcycles has just put its name on the Guinness World Record for the longest journey on an electric motorcycle on a single charge. And it didn’t just surpass the previous record; it literally obliterated it by 78.17 miles (125.8 km), boasting a 40% improvement.

Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Zero Motorcycles, Electric Motorcycles, Guinness, World Records, verge-motorcycles

3D-printed modular power bank is infinitely repairable

Abhimanyu Ghoshal — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:11:03 GMT

At first glance, the Zero is about as clunky and unattractive a power bank as you'll ever find these days. There's a good reason for that, though: you can take it apart without tools, swap out weak cells for fresh ones when the time comes, and keep using it for way longer than any other power bank will last.

Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Battery, Rechargeable+Battery, 3D Printing, xxKickbooster, Kickstarter, Modular, Repair, Portable

Decade-long gym steroids study shows just what happens to men's hearts

Bronwyn Thompson — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:05:04 GMT

One of the first long-term studies that followed weight-training middle-aged men for nearly a decade has found that consistent use of anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) leads to the thickening of the heart’s left ventricular wall, which increasingly reduces the organ's ability to function. However, this damage was reversed over time after people quit the drugs.

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

Tags: Anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS), Weight, Fitness, Home Gym, Drugs, Muscle, Heart, Heart health

Kawasaki's beloved Versys ADV now comes in a red-hot 948cc flavor

Abhimanyu Ghoshal — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:14:05 GMT

Kawasaki's expanding its legendary Versys range of practical adventure motorcycles with a new model featuring the in-line four that powers its ferocious Z900 streetfighter. This one slots in between the Versys 650 and the 1100 as the brand's sportiest tourer yet.

Category: Motorcycles, Transport

Tags: Kawasaki, Adventure Bikes

Flat bottle pioneer puts lid mold on notice with easy clean Round

Monica J. White — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:38:53 GMT

Melbourne’s memobottle has spent more than a decade championing flat water bottles. Now it has finally made a round one, and it built the whole thing around a lid you can actually clean.

Category: Gear, Outdoors

Tags: xxKickbooster, Kickstarter, Water Bottle, Cleaning, Hydration, Bottles, Hygiene

Apple's HomeView wants to run your home, but does it offer anything new?

Howard Armitage — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:09:45 GMT

Apple has unveiled HomeView, a curious little device that borrows the floating display of the original iMac G4, the touchscreen of an iPad, the familiar faces of an Apple Watch and the speaker base of a HomePod. It's potentially a great combination, a 7-inch smart display designed to become the center of the connected home.

Category: Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Apple, Smart Home, Touch Screen, Display, Speaker

Water could be the key to understanding Alzheimer's tangled mystery

Mike McRae — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 02:26:47 GMT

A hallmark tangle of proteins present in the brains of people with dementia may have a watery weakness.

Category: Alzheimer's & Dementia, Brain Health, Body and Mind

Tags: Tauopathy, Tau protein, Dementia, neurons

Dual-ring crankset is actually a 1x – with two chainlines

Ben Coxworth — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:55:35 GMT

Although it's now long been standard for multi-speed mountain and gravel bikes to have a single chainring and no front derailleur, that arrangement can be hard on the chain. Orient offers a solution, with an "auto-shifting" 1x dual chainring setup.

Category: Bicycles, Transport

Tags: Cycling, Pedaling

The minivan strikes back as Renault debuts next-gen E-Space concept

Simon Heptinstall — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:27:00 GMT

How is the venerable European car industry responding to the current aggressive wave of Chinese electric vehicle imports? By loudly trumpeting its long-standing sense of style, innovation and heritage of course.

Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Paris Motor Show 2026, Renault, Minivan, Electric Vehicles, Concept Cars

Upgrading to the Fitbit Edge? Here's what you'll get – and miss out on

Abhimanyu Ghoshal — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:03:00 GMT

If Google's screenless health tracker from earlier this year was too stripped-back for your needs, the company's got another wearable for your wrist: the Fitbit Edge. It's got a large display and a few new tricks – but there are also a couple of missteps worth knowing about before you upgrade.

Category: Wearables, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Fitness, Health, Fitness tracker, Fitbit, Google