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With the new Osmo Mobile 8P, DJI's borrowing a handy feature from its high-end Ronin gimbals for mirrorless cameras for its latest smartphone stabilizer – and then taking things up a notch.Continue ReadingCategory: Consumer Tech, TechnologyTags:

Like the spin of a cosmic coin, a unique set of particle oscillations could ultimately decide the fate of the Universe’s biggest suns.Continue ReadingCategory: Physics, ScienceTags: Black hole, Neutrino,

Nissan keeps the factory camper vans coming. Its newest is built atop its smallest van, the Clipper kei van, which measures in under 3.4 meters (11.2 feet) long. To make it a micro-camper, Nissan relies on a basic household staple with which everyday DIY handymen have been familiar for ages: pegboard. The van's integrated peg panels serve as a simple, affordable means of holding up the bed and providing highly versatile storage organization for related (and unrelated) outdoor adventures.Continue ReadingC

It isn't easy harnessing the power of waves in the sea to generate electricity, but a Spanish engineering firm is giving it the ol' college try with a giant floating buoy.Continue ReadingCategory: Energy, EngineeringTags:

Though many of us take grid power for granted, if it goes down for any reason many of us are left in the dark. The Sierro is a new compact home backup system designed to keep your most important devices, like your fridge, router, or CPAP machine, running through an outage.Continue ReadingCategory: Around The Home, Consumer Tech,

You can already work and game on a virtual screen using the current crop of augmented reality glasses – but what if you're a demanding gamer who lives for high-fidelity graphics and buttery smooth animation?Continue ReadingCategory: Consumer Tech,

This one’s a biggie. Honda has just posted its first annual loss since becoming a publicly traded company back in 1957. And it’s not a small number either – Honda reported a staggering net loss of US$2.7 billion for the fiscal year ending March 31.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: Honda,

It’s fairly easy for people to learn from other people – we’ve been doing it for around 300,000 years – because we can observe, copy, and modify what they’re doing. It’s less easy for us to learn from other animals that way, because the less our cognition and bodies are alike, the harder it is to copy and modify what they do. Learning about plants, fungi, protozoa, and bacteria is easy enough, but learning from them? Forget it.Continue Re

Sally Christine Reynolds, Bournemouth University/ The ConversationContinue ReadingCategory: Biology, ScienceTags: Human, Genetics, Neanderthal,

Advances in understanding of neuron activity and adaptation during squirrel hibernation could help inform stroke treatment and recovery.Continue ReadingCategory: Biology, ScienceTags: Stroke, Neurological,