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Watch: Crafty robot uses wings to help it hop where others fear tread
April 10, 2025
| Ben Coxworth
Flying robots do have advantages over their ground-going counterparts, but they're not very energy-efficient. A new bot addresses that tradeoff by using a wing-assisted mechanism to hop instead of walking or flying in the traditional sense.
Toyota Sienna pop-top minivan camper is ready to roam US highways
April 09, 2025
| C.C. Weiss
The Unicamp Sienna Pop Top camper minivan is now rolling out to customers, filling a void of affordable, flexible small pop-up US camper vans. The van still carries 7 or 8 people but is ready to pull over at a moment's notice and camp the night.
Old wind turbine blades recycled into stronger plastics
April 10, 2025
| Abhimanyu Ghoshal
Recycling wind turbine blades is hard because they're built to weather the elements for decades. Researchers have devised a way to use discarded blades to create strong and durable plastics – without resorting to the use of harsh chemicals.
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April 10, 2025 | Utkarsh SoodDirt Freak… with a name like that, you ought to either produce some solid, purpose-built off-road motorcycles… or an inexpensive vacuum cleaner. Happily it’s the former, in the shape of an electric moto from Japan dubbed the GE-N3.
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April 10, 2025 | Paul RiddenAs we noted for our review of the Freedo recently, warmer evenings up north could mean taking your entertainment outdoors. ViewSonic latest portable projectior is a palm-sized model rocks Harman Kardon audio and is mounted to a 360-degree 3-in-1 stand.
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April 10, 2025 | Bronwyn ThompsonMany cyclists are riding blind and risking serious injury, with more than than one in 10 having experienced an accident that they found was due to a structural failure undetected in the bike. Researchers are calling for more stringent testing of bikes.
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April 09, 2025 | Abhimanyu GhoshalA year after Ballie's no-show, Samsung has once again promised to bring its adorable companion robot to market this summer. We don't yet know what it will cost, but we do know it will come with a projector, a camera, and Google Gemini AI smarts.
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April 09, 2025 | David SzondyAirbus Defence and Space has taken the wraps off its fighter cockpit of tomorrow that it's helping to develop as part of Europe's Enhanced Pilot Interfaces & Interactions for Fighter Cockpit (EPIIC) project to build interfaces for next-gen warplanes.
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April 09, 2025TL;DR: Simplify your job as an entrepreneur with Sellful, a single platform for web design, marketing, and more.
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April 09, 2025 | C.C. WeissRemember the Mjølner, the earth-shaking V12 engine under development by Zenvo? Welp, rip that "under development" tag clean off, as the first unit of the world's most powerful road-going V12 engine has been completed.
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April 09, 2025 | Ben CoxworthYou wanna drive a Mars rover? Well sorry, but you can't. You could, however, buy and drive a li'l four-wheel-drive rover that can be controlled from anywhere in the world via 4G cellular networks. Appropriately enough, it's called the EarthRover.
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April 09, 2025 | Abhimanyu GhoshalDid you know you emit gases through your skin? These vapors, which include CO2 and volatile organic compounds, can provide insights about your metabolic status, disease states, and overall health. A new wearable can help make sense of it all.
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April 09, 2025 | Paul McClureTiny 3D organs connected themselves in a lab dish, forming a replica of the human pain pathway, in a new study. The discovery allows scientists to better understand chronic pain and offers an animal-free method of testing pain treatments.
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