Electric Surfboard

Swedish extreme electric surfboard maker Awake Boards has added a new premium electric surfboard to it award-winning range, which promises more power, faster acceleration and better response for sharper turns, higher jumps and faster rides. Awake Boards first crashed the choppy waters of electric surfboarding with 2018’s carbon fiber Rävik, and made an even more impressive splash a couple of years […]

Touchscreen Curtains?

Textiles have been getting smarter for years, but they’re usually fairly limited in size and scope. Now a team of scientists led by Cambridge has woven together a 46-inch textile display, loaded with LEDs, sensors and energy storage, that can be made using existing industrial manufacturing processes. There’s been no shortage of smart fabrics and textiles unveiled in recent years, […]

Amphibious Fat Pickup Truck

The tire-sucking bogs and lonely, icy Arctic expanses of Russia inspired the Sherp ATV and its six-wheeled powered trailer. Canada has some of the same types of inhospitable, uncrossable northerly terrain, and it also has its own homegrown amphibious rover: the Fat Truck from Quebec’s Zeal Motor. Traditionally equipped with a combination of huge 65-inch paddle-tires and fully enclosed personnel […]

Symfonisk Table Lamp Speaker

The collaboration that saw flat-pack furniture firm Ikea and wireless audio experts Sonos light up the Salone del Mobile in 2019 has returned with the second generation of the speaker-packing Symfonisk table lamp. “Since launching the first Symfonisk table lamp speaker, we learned a lot about how and where they are being used,” said Ikea’s Stjepan Begic. “For example, a […]

“Space Crops”

Uber Eats deliveries to Mars are going to be expensive, so the first colonists of the Red Planet will need to figure out how to grow their own food locally. A new study has shown that dosing plants with symbiotic bacteria can drastically improve their growth in barren Mars-like soil. Extremely dry and dusty, the rocky dirt that gives the […]

Metavehicles Propelled By Light

  Although solar-powered devices are now fairly common, Swedish scientists have created something a little different. They’ve built tiny “metavehicles” that are mechanically propelled and guided via waves of light. Led by Prof. Mikael Käll and former PhD student Daniel Andrén, a team at the Chalmers University of Technology constructed the vehicles by coating microscopic particles with what are known […]

Artificial Sweeteners Increase Food Cravings

Artificial sweeteners are widely promoted as safe, zero-calorie alternatives to sugar, ideal for those trying to lose weight. But a new study is indicating artificial sweeteners may increase appetite and food cravings, particularly in females and the obese. “There is controversy surrounding the use of artificial sweeteners because a lot of people are using them for weight loss,” says corresponding […]

Greenery Covered Offices

Influential architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has unveiled plans for a new headquarters for fashion e-commerce company Farfetch. The project is described as a manmade extension of the hillside by the firm and will consist of a dozen interconnected, greenery covered buildings designed to foster collaboration and a pleasant working environment. The Farfetch HQ will be located on the […]

This Gadget Personalises Biometric Security

You cannot control what will happen, but you can at least be as prepared as possible. Start securing your personal belongings in plain sight with the innovative TROVA Go: Discreet Biometric Storage, now an additional 10% off with code TROVA29. At first glance, you may think the TROVA Go is an eyeglasses case, hard drive, or pencil box, but it […]