The tiny house movement has never just been about, well, houses, and it has produced all kinds of weird and wonderful structures on wheels – everything from a pub to a wedding chapel, an office and more. This example provides a hot and steamy take on small living with a sauna that seats up to six people.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Sauna, Off-grid
In the first US study looking at whether the recommended fluoride levels in drinking water affects brain function, researchers have found that the hot-button mineral has no negative impacts on cognition – and may actually be giving it a boost.
Category: Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind
Tags: University of Minnesota, Teeth, Children, Teenagers, Cognitive functioning, Vitamins and minerals
While lithium extraction technologies generally focus on ways to get the essential metal out of the ground, there's another source to mine: existing batteries that no longer work. A new technique could now make that process economically viable.
Category: Energy, Technology
Tags: Lithium-ion, Lithium metal, Battery, Rechargeable Batteries, Recycling, University of Illinois
After a rather slow year in multitools that saw us bring knives into the mix in 2024, 2025 saw more multitool debuts than we could keep up with. Many of them were rather underwhelming – limited utility, weird forms, copycats and other subpar debuts – but a few stood tall above the pack.
Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors
Tags: Multitools, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, Leatherman, Swiss Army, Gerber, Tools, Knife, Backpacking
I've been skeptical about a lot of AI-first gadgets over the last couple of years – the Rabbit R1 and the Humane Pin come to mind – mostly because they promise too much and either underdeliver or fail spectacularly. There's a lot AI can do well, and maybe at this point what we need are more singularly focused products... Like this tiny device aimed at helping kids explore their creativity.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Printer, Consumer Electronics, Gadgets, Kids, Children
It may surprise some to learn that Polaris has a serious research, development, and testing facility. One that rivals the kinds of equipment and know-how found at many full-scale automotive manufacturers. I got a full tour of the place, along with a dedicated test track that I got to use later.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Polaris, Three-Wheeler, Features
Ever since Stefano Boeri Architetti's Bosco Verticale was completed in 2014, putting greenery on skyscrapers has been in vogue – and honestly, as far as architectural trends go, it's one of the better ones. MVRDV's latest project leans into the idea with a lush plant-filled residential tower.
Category: Architecture, Technology
Tags: Building and Construction, MVRDV, Residential towers, sustainable design, Taiwan
On a remote coral reef near Papua New Guinea, endless streams of bubbles rise from cracks in the seabed into the shallow water, fed by an underground volcanic system. For scientists, this natural phenomenon has become a kind of crystal ball, revealing how our changing oceans will shape the marine life within them.
Tags: Australian Institute of Marine Science, Coral, Climate Crisis, Ocean acidification, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Removal, Biodiversity, Marine Biology
Taiwan's Tern Bicycles has listened to its customers and delivered a belt-drive Vektron folding ebike as part of the fourth-generation rollout in the US, which also includes a regular chain-driven flavor that offers a sportier ride.
Tags: ebikes, Tern, Folding, Foldable bike, Bosch, Pedal-assisted, cargo bike
The Loyal Wingman concept has taken a major step toward reality as Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works pulled off an aerial demonstration where a 5th-generation F-22 Raptor interceptor took command of a drone for the first time.
Category: Military, Technology
Tags: Lockheed Martin, Skunk Works, F-22 raptor, drones
You probably know that simply tossing dead batteries in the trash is no bueno – they release toxic heavy metals as they break down over time in landfills, contaminating the soil and nearby water supplies. Thankfully, we now have e-waste recycling facilities around the world that can prevent these from polluting the environment – but surely we can also make safer batteries that decompose naturally, no?
Category: Energy, Technology
Tags: Battery, McGill University, Environmentally-friendly, Wearable, Internet of Things
For all the innovation in helmets, most of it has gone towards making the things "smart." Think AI, AR, integrated cameras, intercom systems, and whatnot. But the traditional helmet design has remained unchanged for the most part. A company called Roof plans to change that.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Helmets, Modular, Helmet, Road Safety, Smart Helmet, EICMA 2025
The Wagoneer S marks a bold leap for Jeep as the brand’s first full-electric model for US buyers. Jeep doesn’t seem shy about it. Its greatest downsides are not electric, but are problems it shares with Wagoneer models on the whole.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Jeep, SUV, Electric Vehicles, Reviews
Japanese engineering outfit Aspark has been working on its oddly mesmerizing Owl hypercar since 2014, and was once the fastest electric production car you could buy. It beat out the legendary Rimac Nevera last June with its blistering top speed of 272.7 mph (438.73 km/h).
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Hypercar, Japan, Electric Vehicles
In a proposal that reads more like the script to a new sci-fi movie, researchers are suggesting a unique way to tackle one of the core problems of quantum computing. If deployed, it would redefine how we think of "cloud computing."
Category: Quantum Computing, Science
Tags: Airships, Blimp, Quantum, KAUST, Stratospheric
One of my favorite IKEA products is a plastic foldable phone stand that weighs next to nothing and lives on your keychain. It's a practical little thing for passing the time if you're out and about a lot – but hardware brand MeToolDesign has taken that concept and leveled it up to create a much more useful piece of EDC gear.
Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors
Tags: EDC, Titanium, Kickstarter
We'd like to welcome this curious armless burrowing lizard into the New Species Hall of Fame. Despite being built for life underground, in the end this slider skink was no match for scientists who had searched for a decade to confirm its existence.
Tags: Australian National University, Species, Reptile, Discovered, Australia
Following a report at the start of this year, more details have been revealed on what is arguably the world's most ambitious architecture project: the mind-bogglingly tall JEC Tower, which is currently rising in Saudi Arabia.
Category: Architecture, Technology
Tags: Building and Construction, Skyscrapers, Saudi Arabia, World's Tallest
You may be sitting on – so to speak – a very valuable asset that scientists would love to get their hands on: your poop. As well as blood, plasma and organs, you can now donate fecal samples to stool banks for research and use in transplants.
Tags: University of New South Wales, fecal transplant, Organ donation, Banking, Microbiome, Gut Bacteria, Gut health
Peak wildfire season may be over in California, but home-threatening fires remain a year-round threat in many areas, and this innovative three-part kit offers homeowners some new and easy ways to give houses a fighting chance.
Category: Around The Home, Lifestyle
Tags: Fire, Fire-Proof Coatings, Firefighting, Wildfires, DIY
