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Despite having great sea legs, I remember feeling a little green in the gills when faced with strong winds and choppy waters on an island hop a few years back. Would the trip have been smoother in a foiling ferry? A video from Candela has the answer.Continue ReadingCategory: Marine, TransportTags: Hydrofoil, Electric Boats, Candela

Downsizing for a single person or a couple is enough of a challenge, but it's even harder to pull off if you have a family in tow. Despite its length of just 7.2 m (23.7 ft), the Joely tackles this issue by squeezing three bedrooms into its compact footprint.Continue ReadingCategory: Tiny Houses, LifestyleTags: Micro-House, Building and Construction, House, Home, Tiny Footprint

Luxo Jr. has been brightening up every Pixar film since 1995, when the anthropomorphic desk lamp first appeared on screen and stomped on the animation studio's logo in its opening credits. This character has now inspired researchers at Apple who have developed ways to make robots more expressive, and improve human-machine interactions – and it is simply adorable.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotics, TechnologyTags: Artificial Intelligence, Robots,...

There are hundreds of automotive concours d'elegance held globally each year, where the most beautiful and important and storied cars in history are honored and celebrated by an ever-growing public fascinated with the way we once travelled. Across the century of the automobile, several of these beauty contests have risen to the fore internationally.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Scuderia Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, Delahaye,...

Topaz Labs, which makes powerful photo and video enhancement software, just showed off a new AI model that automatically enhances old footage, from your home video collection to archival content that may have degraded over time on traditional media.Continue ReadingCategory: TechnologyTags: Artificial Intelligence, Video

The Trump administration's Iron Dome for America executive order is causing political ripples, but with the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) soliciting industry input on the concept, how would such a comprehensive missile defense system work?Continue ReadingCategory: Military, TechnologyTags: Missile Defense, Nuclear weapons

Imagine a massive high-tech helium balloon that stretches well over an NFL football field in length, has more cargo capacity than an Airbus Beluga XL, and produces multi megawatts of power for nearly three dozen propellers. That's definitely a flying whale. And it's actually years in the making, as French startup Flying Whales has been fleshing out the concept for over a decade. Hopes...

Roborock's handsome Flexi Lite claims 17,000 pascals of suction, 40 minutes of battery, a self-cleaning and drying roller-mop, a lay-flat mode for getting under furniture, and right-to-the-edge cleaning on one side. How's it go, then?Continue ReadingCategory: Around The Home, LifestyleTags: Reviews, Vacuum cleaner, Cleaning, Self-cleaning

Fighting fire usually involves water or foam, but they can be messy and environmentally destructive. Engineers at Ohio State University have now developed handheld tools that cleanly extinguish fires with 'ionic wind’ and vortex rings.Continue ReadingCategory: Good Thinking, LifestyleTags: Fire, Fire Extinguishers, Firefighting, Compressed Air, Ohio State University

Downing fruit and vegetable juice as a way of fasting, cleansing, or detoxing can unbalance the health-affecting bacteria in your gut and mouth, according to a new study. After only three days, there was an increase in bacteria responsible for inflammation and disease.Continue ReadingCategory: Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & MindTags: Diet, Gut health, Microbiome

Non-recyclable, non-biodegradable, petroleum-based EPS (expanded polystyrene) foam packaging is not eco-friendly stuff. There could soon be a greener and snazzier-looking alternative, however, in the form of origami-folded cardboard.Continue ReadingCategory: Materials, ScienceTags: VTT Technical Research Centre, Cardboard, Aalto University, Environmentally-friendly, Origami

French automakers have a thing for quirky designs, and for 2025 Renault has certainly created one. The carmaker recently unveiled the Filante Record 2025, an electric concept aimed at breaking all previous records for range and electric efficiency.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: Renault, Electric Vehicles, Concept Vehicle, Efficiency, Batmobile

Subaru has unveiled the 2025 Forester Hybrid at the Chicago Auto Show. This is the first time that the automaker has added a hybrid-electric powertrain to the Forester. It will be the first North American introduction of Subaru's new Strong Hybrid powertrain.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: Subaru, Hybrid, Toyota, SUV

In the last few days, two of the six most expensive cars in history have sold at auction. One for US$54 million in Germany, the other for $36 million in Paris. We're guessing that with financial storm clouds looming, the world's most astute money managers are seeking a proven economic hedge.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: World Records, RM-Sothebys, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, Collecting

While Americans have been grappling with the high prices of eggs, Italian researchers have been looking at how best to cook them. They've derived the perfect method, although it might be too time consuming for the average home chef.Continue ReadingCategory: Diet & Nutrition, Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & MindTags: Eggs, Cooking, Polyphenols

Most of us spend an awful lot of time looking at pocket-friendly screens these days, which can take its toll on our peepers. Last year, Bigme offered an eye-friendly alternative with its HiBreak E Ink smartphone. Now a Pro version has launched.Continue ReadingCategory: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, TechnologyTags: E-Ink, smartphones

For the first time, scientists have been able to produce kangaroo embryos through in-vitro fertilization (IVF), an important milestone in being able to replicate this across hundreds of species of pouch-toting marsupials under ever-increasing threat of extinction.Continue ReadingCategory: Biology, ScienceTags: University of Queensland, kangaroo, In vitro fertilization, Conservation, Australia, Animal science, Biodiversity

Scientists remain puzzled as to why some individuals taking popular weight loss and diabetes medications such as Ozempic and Wegovy develop complications with their eyesight, highlighting that we still have a lot to learn about this relatively new class of drugs.Continue ReadingCategory: Obesity, Illnesses and conditions, Body & MindTags: University of Utah, Ozempic, GLP-1, Obesity, Diabetes, Vision, Sight, Medication

New research found that high levels of ‘good cholesterol’ in the blood were associated with an increased risk of glaucoma, an incurable condition that leads to vision loss. The findings call for reconsidering the hypothesis that good cholesterol universally benefits health.Continue ReadingCategory: Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & MindTags: Cholesterol, Cardiovascular, Glaucoma, Blindness, Sun Yat-sen University

We're used to seeing robot dogs doing all sorts of weird things, but how about something to make the world safer? The British Ministry of Defence's answer is using the mechanical mutts to make detecting and defusing bombs safer and more efficient.Continue ReadingCategory: Military, TechnologyTags: Robotics, U.K. Ministry of Defence, Explosives

Be it from tap water on a vacation, some dodgy chicken, or something the kids have brought home from school, we've almost all been flattened by an awful stomach bug at some point in our lives. For moderately healthy people, symptoms clear up after a day or two, but during that time it's absolute hell.Continue ReadingCategory: Infectious Diseases, Illnesses and conditions, Body & MindTags:...

Volkswagen has been dangling its €20,000 electric car out there for more than four years so you'd be forgiven if you've already dismissed it as vaporware. Originally slated to launch in 2025, the bargain-basement EV is running a little late, but it's still in the plans. In fact, VW detailed on Wednesday that it will be rounding out its EV lineup with a family...

The company that recently introduced the 60-minute foldable Baby Box also has another foldable tiny home with more creature comforts (like appliances), more square footage, and can be move-in ready within a day. But is it too good to be true?Continue ReadingCategory: Tiny Houses, LifestyleTags: Folding, Tiny, Off-grid

The evolution of the Octo carabiner multitool is an unusual one. The device started small, got bigger, but has now shrunk again. That small-again model, called the Octo Mighty, still manages to pack 18(ish) functions into a li'l titanium body.Continue ReadingCategory: Outdoors, LifestyleTags: Multitools, Kickstarter, Titanium