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This year marks the 15th year of the Urban Photo Awards, a worldwide competition that celebrates the world around us and encourages us to look at the built environment and its inhabitants in a new way. With professional and amateur snappers vying for the main prize, judged in October, we have a look at some of the outstanding finalists that have been chosen from a very competitive field.Continue ReadingCategory: Photography, TechnologyTags:

Few Class A motorhomes make us want to live indefinitely on the road, but Niesmann+Bischoff has mastered the art of making several of those select few. It doesn't build the largest or most expensive motorhomes out there, but we'd argue it makes some of the nicest. The all-new Arto is the latest, debuting with smart, multipurpose spaces and furnishings, upmarket, yacht-like fittings and trims, and enough buyer options to create nearly 26,000 interior configurations. We don't think we're the only ones that would happily call the Arto a full-time home.

While it's great to get a full gym workout, most people don't have the space or the money to put all that equipment in their home. The GymPad Bench is the latest product to offer a solution to that problem, by packing multiple exercise machines into one compact package.Continue ReadingCategory: Health & Wellbeing, LifestyleTags: Home Gym,

A remarkable semi-submersible ecotourism concept that takes passengers above and below the water has just received a zero-emission boost thanks to a new partnership between Platypus Craft and electric outboard manufacturer Evoy.Continue ReadingCategory: Marine, TransportTags:

Rocky Mountain Tiny Houses recently completed a new model named the Bandelier. Though it only has a modest length of just 28 ft (8.5 m), the tiny home is cleverly designed to offer a comfortable interior for two – plus guests – that has a well-proportioned living area, and even a bathtub.Continue ReadingCategory: Tiny Houses, LifestyleTags:

For the first time, the fully mechanical heart made by BiVACOR, which uses the same technology as high-speed rail lines, has been implanted inside a human being. The feat marks a major step in keeping people alive as they wait for heart transplants.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTags: Artificial organs,

The official definition of a “planet” could be set to change again soon. Last time that happened, Pluto was kicked out of the club, but the new proposed definition is designed to be more inclusive.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: Planet, Dwarf planet, Pluto

Ocean Energy has deployed its 826-tonne wave energy converter buoy OE-35 at the US Navy's Wave Energy Test Site off the coast of the island of Oahu ahead of it being hooked up to Hawaii's electricity grid.Continue ReadingCategory: Energy, ScienceTags: Wave Power, US Marines,

The recognition of same-sex marriage across the European Union has had a negative impact on the US economy, causing the number of highly skilled foreign workers seeking visas to drop by about 21%, according to a new study.Continue ReadingCategory: LifestyleTags: Washington State University

MIT scientists have discovered an intriguing new way to produce hydrogen fuel, using just soda cans, seawater and coffee grounds. The team says the chemical reaction could be put to work powering engines or fuel cells in marine vehicles that suck in seawater.Continue ReadingCategory: Energy, ScienceTags: Hydrogen,