While many ebikes will provide assist for your outward commute, and possibly back home too, options decrease significantly for weekend trekkers. Following the long-range Titan fat-tire ride, Fiido has now launched a triple-battery tourer called the Nomads.
Tags: Reviews, ebikes, Pedal-assisted, Touring
When choosing a protein powder, we generally want it to be low in sugar and carbohydrates, and to not taste terrible. We don't even consider that it might also be packed with dangerously high levels of lead. But this is what a new report has found, analyzing 23 popular protein supplements on US shelves.
Category: Diet & Nutrition, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: Consumers, Protein, Diet, Ketogenic diet, Macro, Nutrition, Muscle, Weight, Home Gym
Training a service dog doesn’t just change the life of another veteran; it may help heal the trainer, too. A new study finds that volunteering with dogs could slow biological aging in female veterans with PTSD while easing stress and anxiety.
Category: Body and Mind
Tags: PTSD, Combat veterans, Service animals, Women, mental health, Florida Atlantic University
From June 2024 to June 2025, Triumph enjoyed its most successful financial year, where it sold more than 141,683 motorcycles. That’s a 136% sales growth since 2019. So does Triumph sit back and relax a while? Of course not, it plans to announce a huge number of bike releases over the next 6 months.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Triumph, Launch, Motorcycle, Bikes
China has finished construction of what’s being billed as the world’s first wind-powered underwater data center (UDC), located off the coast of the Lin-gang Special Area of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone. The project, which cost around ¥1.6 billion (US$226 million), marks a bold step in sustainable, high-performance computing infrastructure.
Category: Energy, Technology
Tags: Shanghai, China, Data Center, Cloud Computing, Wind Power, Underwater, Energy Efficient, Sustainability, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing
Who’d want a Ducati Diavel when you can get the Benda LFC700, an equally stunning, low, and chunky supersport-like inline-four cruiser? And don't just take it as a cheap imitation of the Italian legend; rather, a worthy alternative that is now available Stateside!
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Benda, Cruisers, Ducati, Triumph, Rocket III
Back before Blade Runner captured our imaginations, sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury envisioned small personal helicopters that people would use to commute around the cities of the future. Well, the Janus-1 is just such a beast, and it may someday be yours … emphasis on "may be."
Tags: Helicopters, urban transport, Folding
Toyota's just expanded its iconic Land Cruiser SUV lineup with the Land Cruiser FJ, a boxy little thing that's meant to get more people off-roading in an accessible form factor. It's coming mid-2026, and it might have a fun little surprise to boot.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Smart projection outfit XGIMI has launched a new sub-brand aimed at making the first-time experience a positive one. The appropriately named first product – the One – is an inexpensive lantern projector "that transforms any space into a cinema, social hub, or creative zone."
Category: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Technology
A novel treatment for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is on the horizon, with the discovery that two specific gut microbes produce serotonin that protects against inflammation and damage.
Category: Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: University of Gothenburg, Microbiome, Gut Bacteria, Irritable bowel syndrome, Gastrointestinal, Bacteria, Microbes, Gut-brain axis, Gut health
Scientists that won an infamous 2024 IgNobel Prize for "discovering that many mammals are capable of breathing through their anus" may indeed have the last laugh. They've now completed a successful human trial testing the safety and tolerability of enteral ventilation, a technique that gets oxygen into the body via an unconventional route.
Category: Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: Kyoto University, Lung, Oxygen, Respiratory health, Treatment, clinical trials, Ig Nobel Prize
In the shadow of a service outage that affected millions of users, outside of Richland, Washington, internet commerce giant Amazon is building the first of a series of modular nuclear power stations to protect its data services from outages.
Category: Energy, Technology
Harsh, eco-unfriendly synthetic herbicides are definitely one of those things that you shouldn't be using if you don't have to. Japanese researchers are thus now developing a green alternative, derived from the leaves of a humble walnut tree.
Category: Environment, Science
Tags: Kyushu University, Agriculture, Crops, Plants
In the heart of Mandalay, Burma, a small cluster of bamboo houses has become a symbol of resilience. When a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar earlier this year, the ground around them split and buildings nearby collapsed. Yet 26 of these homes, designed and built by architectural studio Blue Temple, remained completely intact.
Category: Architecture, Technology
Tags: Earthquake, Emergency Housing, Bamboo, DIY
No matter how much gear you stuff into your pocket or backpack for recording on the go, chances are high that you'll forget something. The AirStudio S1 is designed to ease the burden, serving as an EDC multi-tool musicians, podcasters or sonic creatives.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Kickstarter, Microphone, Earphones, Studio, recording, Portable
This recently completed tiny house combines off-grid functionality with a well-designed and surprisingly luxurious interior that lets its owners live and work wherever they want.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Micro-House, Tiny Footprint, House, Home
This one's for guitarists who enjoy messing with tones, but spend way too much time trying to lock in the perfect sound. Groundhog Audio claims its tech can match the tone from any song and drop it into a compact pedal at your feet – no knob twiddling necessary.
Category: Music, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Guitar, Guitar Effects, Kickstarter
A new drug combination to treat advanced recurring prostate cancer has shown remarkable results in a long-term trial, lowering the risk of death after eight years by 40.3%. What's more, the drug treatments are already approved for use on their own.
Category: Cancer, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: Cedars-Sinai, Prostate cancer, Cancer, clinical trials, Hormone, Radiation, Surgery
The age of the GLP-1 drug has reached yet another milestone, with the US Food and Drug Administration green-lighting Novo Nordisk's once-daily oral semaglutide pill to treat people at high risk of cardiovascular events like heart attack and stroke.
Category: Diabetes, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: Novo Nordisk, Heart Disease, Cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes, Semaglutide, GLP-1 receptor agonists
Bone conduction headphones promise the freedom to listen to music, an audiobook or a podcast while staying aware of your surroundings, and the Jabees 7Seven unit takes that concept underwater. And, with 32 GB of built-in storage, you can leave your phone at home for uninterrupted workouts.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Headphones, Water Sports, Exercise, Bone Conduction, Portable Audio, Audio, Swimming, Waterproof
