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Compal’s award-winning AI Book concept adds a color E Ink display to the laptop’s palm rest area, turning otherwise unused space into a stylus-friendly workspace for notes, widgets, and AI prompts.Continue ReadingCategory: Laptops, Consumer Tech,

For a couple of years in the late 1970s, Harley-Davidson made a café racer called the XLCR, which featured singular styling quite unlike the company's hefty choppers. Unfortunately, it didn't sway riders in the US at the time, and less than 2,000 units were sold.Continue ReadingCategory: Motorcycles,

Vinyl records have been finding more and more new ears in recent years, and Mixx Audio has a novel turntable to help keep the groove moving – one that also rocks a CD player plonked right in the middle of the platter, as well as flexible connectivity.Continue ReadingCategory: Home Entertainment, Consumer Tech,

This one’s interesting. We’re probably all aware of Harley-Davidson’s struggles of late. It’s electric offshoot LiveWire hasn’t fared too well, either, struggling to sell e-motos in big numbers. But there's more to that story.Continue ReadingCategory: Motorcycles, TransportTags: livewire,

An entirely new type of van for an entirely new type of camper van, the Orca from Reiter Engineering sees a bony Mercedes-Benz Sprinter chassis transformed into a high-capacity ultralight transporter that's positively starving for gear, tools, furniture and whatever else you can think to stuff in. This particular take on the cargo van is longer, wider and emptier than any Sprinter that Mercedes builds at its factories while weighing hundreds of pounds less thanks to a svelte carbon fiber shell. It lets drivers carry thousands of pounds of payload without needing a trucking license.

There was a time when the name Xiaomi was synonymous with home appliances. That has changed of late, with the Chinese company venturing into the automotive segment with the 217-mph 4-door SU7 – a car that outsold the Tesla Model 3 in China and the YU7 SUV that followed it.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: Xiaomi,

Could the Ligar digital camera resurrect your obsolete vintage camera and give it a second life? Currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter, the device pops onto any film camera with a hot-shoe connection, allowing users to shoot both film and digital images simultaneously.Continue ReadingCategory: Photography, Consumer Tech, Technology

It has been a long, twisting journey for Aptera’s solar-powered EV (sEV), but we can at last report that the extraordinary futuristic car has taken a huge step toward mass production.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: Aptera,

How much can you realistically fit into a tiny house measuring just 16 ft (4.9 m) in length? You might assume the answer is "not much," but this model squeezes in a surprisingly effective space-saving layout – and does so at a low cost.Continue ReadingCategory: Tiny Houses, OutdoorsTags:

The Arcos Driver aerospace-grade titanium pocket tool can crack even the most elusive screw. It packs a four-angle articulating head and three-mode ratchet into a 70-g (2.5-oz) frame. If it ships as built, it might be the last screwdriver you pocket.Continue ReadingCategory: Knives and Multitools, Gear, OutdoorsTags: Kickstarter