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'Living sand' aims to bring crops to infertile desert wastelands
September 13, 2026
| Maryna Holovnova
There are very few plants that can grow in sand, but farming in a desert is hard to imagine. Or is it? Scientists in the UAE are trying to make it happen. With their new method, growing crops in sand may become possible in the near future.
Freezable titanium plate keeps your cooler chilled longer than ice packs
September 11, 2026
| Abhimanyu Ghoshal
If you often pack food and drinks for outdoor trips, you know the struggle of keeping those items cool. This new piece of kit for camping and hiking looks like a simple way to keep your stuff chilled for longer.
Towable A-frame is about as small and simple as a tiny house gets
September 13, 2026
| Adam Williams
A lot of people neither want nor need all the extra space found in a full-size tiny house. This A-frame on wheels is for such minimalists. With a length of just 15 ft and containing one room, it's as small and simple as it gets.
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Tiny houses don't come much bigger than this recent XL model. It features a roomy and apartment-like interior layout that's arranged on one floor, making small living about as comfortable as possible.
The Gennai Pen SL01 combines Hidetoshi Nakayama’s mechanical design language with TACTICALGEEK’s engineering, creating a stainless-steel EDC pen with exposed mechanisms, tactile controls, and a distinctive Telegraph Key-inspired action.
The tiny house scene has gone from cheap and cheerful to large and high-budget in recent years, but Dragon Tiny Homes' upgraded Sora 20' is an outlier. The affordable home has a space-saving interior that sleeps up to two people.
When the GT-Air 3 Smart helmet debuted at EICMA last year, plenty of people questioned whether it would ever actually make its way to shop shelves. Lo and behold, it finally has!
Living in a tiny house with a family is always going to be a challenge, but some models are better equipped than others to make it work. We've picked 10 of the best examples that make family life on wheels easier.
Camprit’s new FlameMage titanium camp stove brings variable heat management to the backcountry. The ultralight, flat-packing multi-fuel stove features a four-level adjustable fuel tray to switch from rapid searing to gentle simmering.
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September 13, 2026 | Malcolm AzaniaInspired by Hayao Miyazaki’s Future Boy Conan anime series featuring bread made from plastic, a Japanese engineer has created a way to turn waste plastics into fertilizer. The global threat of plastic waste could become a boon for global agriculture. -
September 12, 2026 | Utkarsh SoodThere are a few things in motorcycling that make me immediately suspicious. A rather unheard-of helmet manufacturer suddenly announcing that it has built the world's lightest off-road helmet will definitely get my attention. But is it legit? -
September 12, 2026 | Utkarsh SoodIt’s been five years since Mitsubishi pulled the Pajero from its global lineup. Make that closer to a decade for regions that knew it as the Montero. But not long after the company released the first teaser, we got the SUV's full-fledged debut.
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September 12, 2026 | Utkarsh SoodHong Kong-based Evoke Motorcycles seems to be back from its limbo, with the Nrgy e-moto. The company recently celebrated its 10‑year anniversary with a grand opening of a brand‑new manufacturing factory, while also revealing the all-new $4,995 Nrgy. -
September 12, 2026 | Abhimanyu GhoshalBMX's SolidSafe Air power bank is an impossibly slim model at just 6.8mm. And since it's a semi-solid-state model, this promises not to swell or catch on fire in your pocket like conventional power banks can. -
September 12, 2026 | Utkarsh SoodFor years, the US has had the Mustang. Britain, meanwhile, has had trouble keeping its great sports-car names alive. It took time, but Britain finally looked across the Atlantic, saw what Ford did with the Mustang, and said: yeah, we can do that too. -
September 11, 2026 | Utkarsh SoodAmerican rider Patrick Cornell, also known as "Vroom Old Man," has notched up 201,901 miles (324,928 km) over 12 months across the USA and Canada aboard his 2025 Indian Pursuit. Why, you ask? To raise money for the Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation. -
September 11, 2026 | Maryna HolovnovaA titanium-obsessed design company from London is back on Kickstarter with a portable grill built around the Lego principle. Add as many sets as you need to expand the cooking area, and turn it into a campfire once dinner is done. -
September 11, 2026 | C.C. WeissA few weeks back, we took a look at the SkyNomad N90, an SUV from Xiaomi. However, it lacked one feature that could have raised its van life profile: a pop-up roof. Well, the SkyNomad has officially filled that hole with the Max Studio version. -
September 11, 2026 | Bronwyn ThompsonThe folks at Thermal Master are producing so many gadgets that it’s hard to keep up with – but this one, the DV2, is more than worth a look, even if nature decided to fight me in testing it for the last six weeks.
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Almost a century and a half after construction began on La Sagrada Familia, the exterior structure of the tallest church in the world was finally completed last Friday in Barcelona, Spain. Its tallest tower has reached its maximum height of 566 ft.
The all-new Urbanoid Booba is an impossibly cute, tiny acorn of a trailer designed to provide a stylish, carefree way of instantly escaping the urban grind. The towable clamshell unfolds and inflates into a cozy base camp in a matter of minutes.
Researchers have discovered a new way to potentially treat liver disease. By blocking a key inflammatory pathway it could be possible to reduce liver damage and improve blood vessel function in patients suffering cirrhosis.
Garmin's latest Force electric motor drive might just be its most innovative yet. The Current trolling motor goes totally hands-free with a foot pedal system Garmin calls an industry first. Keep your bait in the water while cruising forward.
Following construction restarting earlier 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.
A new video takes you inside Dyson's impressive vertical farming operation, which is home to 1,225,000 strawberry plants and shows you how the company is applying its manufacturing knowledge to producing homegrown food for British consumers.
Bürstner has teased some impressive new vehicle debuts ahead of the world's largest RV show. Among them, the Signature series subtly deletes the division between camper van and motorhome with a sleek, semi-integrated body and transformable interior.
Archeologists say they have solved the 6,000-year-old mystery of Armenia’s “dragon stones" – massive carved monoliths scattered across high-altitude slopes and pastures where no ancient settlements ever existed. It's a story of worship and water.