While Praga has concerned itself mainly with go-karts, race cars and Dakar trucks in recent years, it made street cars back in 1907. Now it’s back with the Bohema, a stunning, lightweight supercar with the 700-horsepower heart of a Nissan GT-R. This Czech company is unconcerned about keeping up with electrification, or getting into horsepower, acceleration or top-speed battles with […]
Ultra Lightweight Supercar
3D Printed House
Italian 3D printing company WASP (World’s Advanced Saving Project) has revealed plans for an experimental 3D-printed house named Itaca. Once completed, the prototype dwelling will run fully off-the-grid to aid research on self sufficiency and sustainability in a compact area. One of the project’s main goals is to prove the theory that an area up to 33 m (108 ft) […]
Light Packable Rotisserie
On a recent search to find some cooking accessories for my annual fire pit rotisserie Thanksgiving turkey roast, I happened upon a new piece of gear that can bring that style of rotisserie cooking to a distant campsite reached only by foot, bike, raft or other light, human-powered means. The Adventure Fork can cook kebabs, sausages, chicken tenders, vegetables and […]
Rode Plug & Play Microphone
Back in 2014, Australian audio brand Røde released an all-in-one USB condenser microphone that’s still a popular choice for podcasters and streaming content creators today. Now the company has announced an update with integrated preamp and onboard DSP. Like its predecessor, the NT-USB+ is a plug-and-play recording solution that comes with its own desktop tripod and detachable pop screen, and has […]
Tough & Cheap Water Level Sensors
Water level sensors serve an important purpose in rivers, warning of floods and unsafe recreational conditions. A new one is claimed to be not only more robust and reliable than others, but also considerably less expensive. According to scientists at Germany’s University of Bonn, conventional water level sensors suffer from one or more limitations – they get damaged in floods, […]
Rise of Refillable Make-Up
Refillable makeup products promise to reduce waste and help create a more sustainable beauty routine. If you’ve ever thrown out old makeup, you know how much waste plastic packaging creates. You can fill a wastebasket pretty quickly with old eye shadow and powder compacts, not to mention foundation bottles and so on. But which refillable makeup containers are the most sustainable? Are […]
Pacofire Camp Stove
The space-saving endeavors of outdoor companies has led to a flurry of foldable camp stoves and grills that make backcountry cookups a much more manageable affair, and the newly launched Pacofire lands as one of the most portable yet. The four-piece stove can be loaded up with burgers and sausages for a feast in the wilderness, and neatly packed down […]
Hovering Tentsile Cabin
Spending the night in a Tentsile tree tent can be a truly inspiring way to camp, but hovering over the ground in a big mesh dome isn’t so ideal once the frigid, wet, howling weather of winter hits. With the all-new Insulated Cabin, Tentsile supports the ambitions of four-season tree campers with a warm, cozy insulator optimized for camping between fall and […]
Chara Chorder Hopes To Boost Typing Speed On Keyboards
Last year we told you about the CharaChorder Lite, a special keyboard that lets users type faster by using groupings of keys to represent entire words. Well, any keyboard can now do that, if it’s equipped with the CharaChorder X. To recap our previous coverage, the CharaChorder Lite keyboard (made by Texas-based startup CharaChorder) can be used like a regular keyboard, with words […]
Giant Launches Urban E-Bike
Taiwan’s Giant Bicycles has launched a tough-looking urban ebike called the Stormguard E+ that’s designed to tackle daily commutes, shopping trips into town or off-road adventures beyond the city limits in full-suspension comfort. Described by Giant as the SUV of ebikes, the versatile Stormguard E+ benefits from full Fox suspension with 100 mm of travel front and back, plus there’s […]