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Subaru drops all-new 2026 Trailseeker EV surprise
4 December 2025 @ 9:30 pm
Subaru has unveiled an all-new model, the Trailseeker. This all-electric sport utility starts at a little under $50,000 and will enter the market in early 2026.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: Subaru, SUV, Newest underwater scooter is one of the fastest we've seen
4 December 2025 @ 8:03 pm
Although underwater scooters may offer users an aquatic "thrill ride," many of the things don't go much faster than the person could swim on their own. Such is not the case with the Sublue Vapor, however, which tops out at a speed of 10 km/h (6 mph).Continue ReadingCategory: Marine, TransportTags: Underwater scooters, Blood sugar monitor switches needle pricks for infrared light
4 December 2025 @ 3:27 pm
Beyond the myriad complications that come with diabetes, patients have to additionally put up with regular blood sugar testing – which involves either multiple pin pricks a day to draw blood or wearing a continuous glucose monitor patch that needs to be replaced every couple of weeks. If you're not good with needles, this can be awful.Continue ReadingCategory: Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and MindTags:Antigravity 360 drone: The most immersive flight you'll ever have
4 December 2025 @ 2:01 pm
Antigravity just dropped the A1 – the world's first "all-in-one 8K 360 drone." Totally sounds like marketing hype until you fly it and realize how revolutionary this drone really is. As Antigravity's Michael Shabun put it, "A1 takes the freedom of 360 capture and gives it wings."Continue ReadingCategory: Drones, Consumer Tech, This ingenious tiny house is almost like two homes in one
4 December 2025 @ 12:33 pm
The Yamabiko is small, even by tiny house standards. Yet despite its modest length of 6.6 m (21.6 ft), this clever model somehow manages to squeeze in not just one but two separate layouts, each mirroring the other and sharing a single bathroom.Continue ReadingCategory: Tiny Houses, OutdoorsTags: Micro-House, Vitamin C shields lung cells from common air-pollution damage
4 December 2025 @ 4:18 am
Vitamin C may offer meaningful protection against one of the world's invisible but pervasive health threats – fine-particle air pollution. New research has found that the common antioxidant can significantly reduce the lung inflammation and cellular damage caused by everyday, low-level exposure to PM2.5.Continue ReadingCategory: Diet & Nutrition, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and MindFuturistic dome grows food by itself – with help from some fish
4 December 2025 @ 3:20 am
Inspired by the humble old greenhouse, a futuristic self-contained food ecosystem was recently on display at Expo 2025 Osaka-Kansai in Japan, offering us a glimpse at a how we might one day have "farm to table" on our apartment block rooftops or in small urban spaces. Think of it as a tiny house of produce.Continue ReadingCategory: Architecture, TechnologyTags: Gordon Murray S1 LM becomes most expensive new car sold at auction
4 December 2025 @ 2:28 am
Twenty million, six hundred and thirty thousand US dollars. That’s how much the Gordon Murray S1 LM supercar sold for, officially garnering the highest sale price for a new car sold at auction, excluding charity lots.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: Gordon Murray, Oldest RNA ever found in an ancient woolly mammoth leg
4 December 2025 @ 12:03 am
Scientists have sequenced RNA from a nearly 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth leg, the oldest ancient RNA ever recovered. These fragile molecules could reveal which genes were active in the animal’s final hours and what was happening inside the animal’s muscles when it died.Continue ReadingCategory: Biology, ScienceTags: DNA, RNA, Exo legs with laser-eyes see the terrain so your knees don’t have to
3 December 2025 @ 10:00 pm
After years of exoskeletons built primarily for medical, workforce and military applications, the recreational sport exoskeleton is really having its marketable moment. The newest take on the technology, the Irmo M1 brings what's billed as a "world first" tweak, a multi-sensor AI system that automatically adjusts output based on the terrain ahead. It's like an adaptive automotive suspension, only for legs instead of wheels.Continue ReadingCategory: