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Jeep Boss Mike Manley recently speculated in an interview what upgrades the Wrangler might see for its 2017 update. Focusing on its iconic image, as well as improving fuel economy and driving performance, Manley mulls id...

Elastic-powered toys don't sound particularly exciting these days when you can get a buy a flying toy helicopter that fits in the palm of your hand. But three students at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena crea...

The Canon PowerShot SX710 HS is a premium travel-zoom camera with a 30x zoom lens in a slim and compact body. The Canon SX710 also offers 20 megapixels, a 3-inch LCD screen, PASM shooting modes, built-in wi-fi/NFC and Fu...

The iON SnapCam™ isn't your typical camera. Sure, it takes amazing video and connects wirelessly to your smartphone for instant uploading, but here's the SnapCam difference: You wear it. At 1.5 inches square and weighi...

Oculus Rift, a gaming headset, can help teach nurses how to communicate better, researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology have found.

When we talk about drones, we often end up confining our consideration of the pilotless aircraft to realms of commerce, military, and other fairly focused uses. Contestants in a recently launched contest, however, want t...

Ariastis writes Google took almost three years to disclose to the open information group WikiLeaks that it had handed over emails and other digital data belonging to three of its staffers to the FBI under a secret search...

Unlike Bilbo's magic ring, which entangles human hearts, engineers have created a new micro-ring that entangles individual particles of light, an important first step in a whole host of new technologies.

Meet the Pocket Monkey Wallet Multitool – It's small enough to fit in your wallet and sturdy to work as a bottle opener housing a toolbox. That makes it a comfortable utility device you can access whenever necessary, d...

Australian startup Forcite has recently unveiled some teaser info about its upcoming Alpine Smart Helmet -- a ski helmet built with an integrated 1080p camera, speakers, headlights, wireless connectivity, and a laundry l...

The Pirate Cinema turns worldwide torrent traffic into art. The results are equally beautiful, chaotic, inspiring, maddening, and there's a slight chance that I can feel my brain melting.

A rare phaser pistol from the original Star Trek television series is “set to stun” when it goes on the auction block next month in Los Angeles. It is made of fiberglass and one of only two known phasers to…

Since the beginning of recorded time, humans have used materials found in nature to improve their lot. Since the turn of this century, scientists have studied metamaterials, artificial materials engineered to bend electr...

The Pacific Crest Trail is more than a backdrop in the Oscar-nominated Reese Witherspoon film Wild— it drives the plot, serves both as antagonist and companion, and makes the story what it is. That kind of focus on a d...

Romanian photographer Radu Zaciu has been experimenting recently with photographing fruits and vegetables using internal lighting. He places bulbs inside and uses that as the main light source for his series of glowing i...

There’s nothing more frustrating than a beautiful iPhone that has zero GB of storage left. Especially when you see that a lot of room is actually taken up by a mysterious “other” section that just seems to grow big...

It didn't take long for those "Will it Blend?" videos to get long in the tooth. You can only watch so many smartphones being torn to shreds before the novelty wears off. But to celebrate the birth of his 40th grandkid, T...

It'll be many months before we see the new GT on streets, but Ford's new supercar -- which was just announced at NAIAS in Detroit -- is going to get plenty of screen time leading up to the launch. That's thanks in part t...

Not all comets break up as they vent and age, but for Rosetta's comet 67P, the Rubber Duckie comet, a crack in the neck raises concerns. Some comets may just fizzle and uniformly expel their volatiles throughout their su...

The first solid rocket booster qualification motor for NASA's mammoth new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is aimed and ready to fire in a major ground test after NASA and ATK finished its installation at a test stand in...

The potential threat of bioterrorism using man-made biological organisms could be reduced, thanks to a new method developed by scientists. Synthetic biologists -- who can design and modify the DNA of living organisms to ...

Three astrophysicists who discovered the "Fermi bubbles" place the discovery in context, and share what the mysterious bubbles may reveal about the history of our Milky Way galaxy.