After about a decade in the works, Palo Alto-based robotics company 1X is nearly ready with its Neo humanoid, which is designed to help you with housework and other tasks around the home. It'll ship sometime next year, and you can either pre-order one to purchase it outright, or pay a monthly subscription fee.
Category: AI and Humanoids, Technology
Tags: Robots, Humanoid, Tele-operation
A surprising trigger for hair regrowth may lie in the body’s fat cells. Researchers have shown that mild skin irritation can trigger fat cells to go into panic mode, sending signals to dormant follicles that can fuel new hair growth within weeks.
Category: Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: National Taiwan University, Baldness, Hair, Stem Cells, Fat cells, Inflammation, Skin
Texas-based Janta Power has just snagged US$5.5 million in a round of seed funding to continue the deployment of its pivoting solar power towers. The vertical design and smart tracking functions of the towers offer big improvements over flat panel arrays.
Category: Energy, Technology
Tags: Solar Power, Green+Energy, Photovoltaic
NASA's X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) experimental supersonic aircraft took to the skies for the first time on October 28, 2025 from Lockheed Martin's famously secret Skunk Works at the US Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California.
Tags: Supersonic, NASA, X-Plane, Lockheed Martin, Aircraft
Possibly one of the world's most underrated camper conversion companies, British shop Wheelhome has long been designing some truly unique mini-camper vans and trailers, including cool little solo campers that might inspire you to go it alone into the wild. This time around, it's really outdone itself, building a hybrid rooftop tent/pop-up camper specially developed to hug the arched roofline of the Tesla Model 3. After a thorough shakedown around Iceland, the rooftop pod is evolving into a more practical micro-camping trailer that can be towed by virtually any vehicle.
Category: Camping Trailers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: electric-camper, roof-top tent, RV, Caravan, Trailer, trailers, Camping, Outdoors and Camping
Triumph's making it even harder to choose a naked steed for the streets from its stable, with the introduction of the Trident 800. It's the capable Trident 660's bolder sibling with more power and better components, and with more throwback-y roadster styling than its bug-eyed cousin, the Street Triple R.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Triumph, Naked bike
Influential UK firm Heatherwick Studio has been commissioned to transform an island in Seoul, South Korea, from a neglected wasteland into a lush public park. The ambitious project, named Soundscape, will feature an elevated trail, greenery filled buildings, and more.
Category: Architecture, Technology
Tags: Building and Construction, Thomas Heatherwick, South Korea
Sharp sells all kinds of electronics, from TVs to air conditioners. It seems to be getting increasingly serious about entering the electric vehicle (EV) market with the second iteration of its 'LDK+' concept, which takes an unusual approach of being 'part of your home.'
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Sharp, Electric Vehicles, Concept Cars, Internet of Things
There's growing evidence that a Mediterranean diet can provide relief from symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), offering people more variety and easier adherence than the current frontline treatment of a low-FODMAP plan to treat the condition.
Category: Diet & Nutrition, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: University of Sheffield, Diet, Irritable bowel syndrome, Nutrition, Gastrointestinal, Inflammation
The absolutely bonkers 1,195cc V-twin RC8 R was discontinued in 2015, and since then, KTM hasn’t really had a proper, fully faired production sports bike. Until now.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: KTM, Superbike, Supersports, Racing, Sportsbikes, Ducati, Yamaha
Did you know it rains on the Sun? Not water, of course. It's solar rain, which occurs in the Sun's corona, the outermost layer composed of intensely hot plasma. This phenomenon involves cooler, heavier blobs of plasma that condense high above the Sun's surface and then plunge back down.
Sure, a home weight room would be nice, but not everyone has the space or funds for one. xplate is the latest product designed to address that problem, by stuffing a modular weight training system into a case that can be taken anywhere.
Tags: Exercise, Fitness, Modular, Kickstarter
The new Hex from New Zealand company KEA Outdoors looks like an unassuming folding EDC (everyday carry) knife upon first glance. It has a bright, grippy handle for convenience, a razor-sharp half-serrated, half-straight drop-point blade for cutting versatility, a thumb stud for fast, simplified deployment, and a lanyard hole for easily stringing up. But that lanyard slot is more than meets the eye, carrying a handful of functions within a simple rotating wheel-like design, creating a different style of multitool.
Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors
Tags: Outdoors and Camping, Survival, Multitools, EDC, Camping, Backpacking, Folding, Knife
Nike has been working on some strange new ideas. The first is a pair of shoes that activate your mind body connection through receptors in your feet. The second are powered sneakers. Oh, and there's also an inflatable coat and a super-cooling shirt.
Tags: Nike, Shoes, Smart shoes, Exoskeleton, Jacket, Shirt, Athlete, Fashion
The Gambier has a length of just 30 ft (9.1 m). Despite its compact dimensions, Rover Tiny Homes has worked with the limited available living space to provide a feature-packed towable home that's a good fit for regular travel and well-suited to a couple or small family.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
Researchers in Switzerland have stuffed a bunch of chips and sensors into socks to help people who suffer from some of the worst symptoms of diabetes – chronic pain and a loss of sensation in the feet.
Category: Diabetes, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: Neuropathic pain, Diabetes, ETH Zurich, Smart Fabric, Nerves, Mobility, Pain, Walk
Listening to or playing music later in life could do more than lift your spirits – it might also help keep your mind sharp. A study of more than 10,000 older adults has found that people who regularly engage with music have significantly lower rates of cognitive decline, with daily music listeners showing up to a 39% reduced risk of developing dementia.
Category: Alzheimer's & Dementia, Brain Health, Body and Mind
Tags: Monash University, Dementia, Brain stimulation, Cognitive functioning, Age-Related, Aging, Music Streaming, Brain activity, Alzheimer's disease, Digital music
Russia has flown a nuclear-arm-capable cruise missile propelled by a nuclear engine. In a televised conference chaired by Russian President Vladimir Putin the 15-hour flight of the 9M730 Burevestnik (NATO name SSC-X-9 Skyfall) was confirmed.
Category: Military, Technology
Tags: Cruise missile, Nuclear, Russia
For the first time, scientists have used evidence-based research to rewrite the advice on what to consume to relieve constipation, doing away with the broad "high-fiber diet" mantra. And one fruit in particular has been proven to be most effective.
Category: Diet & Nutrition, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: Diet, Fiber, Food, King's College London
The soldier of tomorrow seems to have arrived a bit early as Anduril shows off its new AI-powered helmet system. It not only protects soldiers but gives them super senses while turning them into nodes in an advanced data communications network.
Category: Military, Technology
Tags: Anduril, Artificial Intelligence
