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The future might be electric, but the present is electrified. That’s Toyota’s stance, and the Crown is one of several models the automaker offers that follow what has been proven a prescient aim.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: Toyota, Hybrid, Sedan, Station Wagon, SUV, Reviews

It wasn't that long ago that the only way to test for Alzheimer's disease was to perform an autopsy on someone who had been suffering from dementia to look for the telltale tangles of tau and amyloid proteins in the brain. While these tangles are not necessarily the cause of Alzheimer's disease, they are certainly its major hallmark; their sticky, clumping action in the...

Sony tweaked its Bravia TV processing engine last year, and built two prosumer home cinema projectors around it. Now another model has joined the Bravia Projector family, which is designed to "deliver a professional-grade cinematic HDR experience in the home."Continue ReadingCategory: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech, TechnologyTags: Sony, Bravia, 4K UHD, Projectors, home theater, Cinema, Laser

Hyundai has just shown off its second-generation Nexo SUV in South Korea, which gets all-new styling, increased range, and towing capability – a first in the fuel-cell electric vehicle (FCEV) category.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: Hyundai, Hydrogen-powered, Hydrogen, FCEV, Fuel Cell, SUV

In a major defense milestone, the US Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Pinckney (DDG-91) has successfully completed a simulated engagement with a live hypersonic missile in the waters off the Hawaiian Islands.Continue ReadingCategory: Military, TechnologyTags: US Navy, Lockheed Martin, Missile Defense, Hypersonic

In today’s edition of What the Heck, we have the strange case of Ford wanting to put what is essentially a fake manual shifter in its electric vehicles. The company has secured a patent that aims to bring back a traditional element of driving – the feel of shifting gears.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: Ford, Transmission, Electric Vehicles

Folding bicycle helmets are nothing new, nor are electronically-augmented "smart" helmets. The Woolf, however, is claimed to be the first product to combine the best aspects of both helmet types in one wearable device.Continue ReadingCategory: Bicycles, TransportTags: Helmets, Folding, Cycling, Road Safety, bike lights, Kickstarter

Nintendo has finally whipped the covers off its next console, the Switch 2. While it’s more iteration than revolution, that’s totally fine when you’re working from such a strong starting point. The Switch 2 has the same home/portable hybrid gimmick with a few much needed upgrades, a fresh slate of games, and a close launch date of June 5.Continue ReadingCategory: Games, Consumer Tech, TechnologyTags:...

Moving toward the goal of having an operational molten salt nuclear reactor in the next decade, Southern Company and the Idaho National Laboratory have completed the inaugural run of a first-of-its-kind test bed to foster rapid development of the technology.Continue ReadingCategory: Energy, TechnologyTags: Nuclear, Fuel, Reactors, Molten Salt Reactor, Idaho National Laboratory, Small Modular Nuclear Reactor, Nuclear Fision

What looks at a glance like a hilly section of forested landscape is actually a new greenery covered natural history museum by influential studio the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). The energy efficient building is being primarily constructed from wood and will allow visitors to walk all over its raised form.Continue ReadingCategory: Architecture, LifestyleTags: Bjarke Ingels Group, Building and Construction, Museum, sustainable design

A team of researchers from MIT, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and ETH Zurich, has developed a mind-blowing tool to not only create a digital twin of physical objects around you, but also make them function like the real thing in mixed reality (MR). Whether it's a doll with limbs that move a certain way, or a gadget that plays video...

A clever startup that turns "unconventional ideas into practical and unique products" has created a lightweight and convenient notebook that lets you write, erase and write again, bridging the gap between traditional paper pads and digital note-taking apps.Continue ReadingCategory: Consumer Tech, TechnologyTags: Kickstarter, Writing, Creative, Home office, mobile-office, Eco-Friendly, sustainable design

NASA has successfully tested an electric force field on the Moon that protects spacecraft from destructive lunar dust. The Electrodynamic Dust Shield (EDS) was carried aboard Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, whose mission ended on March 16.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: NASA, Moon

One of the most studied space rocks of all time has given scientists another big surprise, with the "mudball meteorite" Aguas Zarcas found to have been in orbit for two million years without crashing into any other objects – or if it did, there was no damage. It challenges conventional thought of the "fragile" carbonaceous chondrite class it belongs to.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: Meteorite,...

Is there no middle ground between a $200,000+ deluxe camper van and an arduous, time-consuming DIY build? Established camper van nameplate Outside Van is looking to till that ground, providing buyers with a Goldilocks solution in which some of the flexibility and affordability of a DIY build meet the hassle-free ease of a prebuilt camper van. With its Baseline van, Outside puts its decades...

When I first used a slider while shooting video, I never wanted to film a static shot ever again. Something as simple as an establishing landscape shot suddenly had this cinematic feel that was far more interesting than it would otherwise would have been. It was was only a manual slide down tracks about the length of a shoebox, but whoa, what a difference.Continue...

While we've heard a lot about humanoid robots lately, the technical requirements for their bipedal walking gait will likely keep them quite expensive – and thus little-seen. By contrast, the "semi-humanoid" FlashBot Arm is something you might actually encounter sometime soon.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotics, TechnologyTags: Delivery robots

California-based researchers have developed an AI-powered system to restore natural speech for paralyzed people in real time and using their own voices.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical Innovations, Body & MindTags: Speech, Text-to-Speech, Artificial Intelligence, Paralysis, University of California Berkeley, University of California San Francisco

While headphones do provide a nice immersive listening experience, music is really made to be heard through a good set of speakers in a room. Movengine's AirCore OWH headphones are designed to simulate that experience, and I recently got to give the things a try.Continue ReadingCategory: Wearables, Consumer Tech, TechnologyTags: Headphones, Reviews, Kickstarter, Audio, Sound

Tickets for autonomous flights over two tourist spots in China should go on sale shortly. China's civil aviation authority has given the green light for urban air mobility outfit EHang to begin low-altitude commercial operations with its EH216-S eVTOL.Continue ReadingCategory: Aircraft, TransportTags: Ehang, eVTOL, Air Taxis, Tourism, Autonomous flight

The keys on Clevetura's new CLVX 1 macOS keyboard aren't just for typing, they're touch sensitive, so you can glide your fingers on them to control your cursor, like you would on a supersized trackpad.Continue ReadingCategory: Computers, Consumer Tech, TechnologyTags: Keyboard, Bluetooth Keyboards, Wireless, macOS, Gestures, Touch-enabled, Kickstarter

Enduring a week’s worth of cold water plunges can jolt the body’s cells into starting the process of autophagy to clean up and recycle old, worn-out, and broken parts, according to a new study. It highlights the potential of ice baths as a treatment for aging or chronic illness.Continue ReadingCategory: Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & MindTags: Cold water immersion, Cellular, Aging, Chronic illness,...

The latest private space mission has launched four astronauts into a sideways orbit that has never been attempted before with a crewed spacecraft. At 9:46 pm EDT, the Fram2 mission lifted off atop a Falcon 9 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: Launch, SpaceX, Commercial, Space Tourism

Scientists have created what they say is the world's smallest untethered flying robot, by taking a unique approach to its design. To minimize size and weight, they've moved the bot's power and control systems out of its sub-centimeter-wide body.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotics, TechnologyTags: UC Berkeley, Flight, Magnetism