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Earlier this year, we took a look at a knife quite unlike any other in the Craighill Sidewinder. True to its name, the knife uses a curvaceous deployment action that's fascinating to watch. Trying to quickly build on its rapid success with the design, Craighill is now turning the Sidewinder into a family, introducing a smaller version that folds the same split-handled, slide-and-flip design...

If a multitool already includes an adjustable wrench, surgical steel blade, bit driver and pry bar, how do you make it even more useful? Well, in the case of the new Pichi X2S, you give it a fold-out saw.Continue ReadingCategory: Outdoors, LifestyleTags: Multitools, Titanium, Kickstarter

We're now one step closer to seeing tourists making balloon flights to the edge of outer space. Just last week, Florida company Space Perspective sent a balloon-lifted test capsule to the outer limits of our planet's atmosphere, followed by a successful splashdown landing.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: Space Tourism, Balloon, Space Perspective

Whether at the shopping mall or tasked with moving stuff around the office, you've likely had to deal with a cart with a wonky wheel at some point. Help could be on the way in the shape of a flying cart named the Palletrone.Continue ReadingCategory: TechnologyTags: drones, Logistics, Cargo, Prototype, Shopping, Cart

It's not often that we see something as humble as a former Aldi store get the starchitect treatment, but that's what's happening with the Museum for Papirkunst. Designed by BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), it will totally transform the existing building, which hosts a paper museum, into a light-filled space defined by an eye-catching roof that resembles a colossal piece of paper draped over the...

Move over, Moo Deng, there's a new superstar baby animal that's become a surprise viral sensation – a nine-month-old king penguin chick named Pesto whose species-defying growth spurt has made this big boy a worldwide hit.Continue ReadingCategory: Biology, ScienceTags: Penguins, Zoo, Aquariums, Sea Life Melbourne

LiquidPiston is testing a 10-kW generator it's prototyped for the US military, which it claims is just a quarter of the size and weight of the current model the Army uses.Continue ReadingCategory: Military, TechnologyTags: LiquidPiston, Engine Technologies, Wankel, US Army

A technique originally developed to combat acid rain has the potential to pull an enormous amount of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere – while helping to deacidify oceans, restore rivers and boost biodiversity and fish populations.Continue ReadingCategory: Environment, ScienceTags: Direct Air Carbon Capture, Climate Crisis, Carbon capture, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Sequestration, Ocean acidification, Ocean, River, Geoengineering