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A scale is an odd thing to review. For one thing, it's one of the few gadgets you have to be completely naked to test. It also sends you down a rabbit hole of fitness tech, with too many apps and too many connected devic...

ILIFE X5 Smart Robotic Vacuum Cleaner is an essential household cleaning machine. With Intelligent Anti-collision System Sensor, it can intelligently prevent the collision and protects furniture from damage. Strong Sucti...

In the great fight against cancer, scientists look for solutions that are both effective and less ravaging than current treatments like chemotherapy. One experimental concept, optogenetics, uses light to reduce or elimin...

After capturing and transmitting the most detailed images of Pluto we've ever seen, NASA's New Horizons space probe is getting a new mission. NASA announced today that the probe had received funding to continue its explo...

The Uitto Biocomposite Skateboard is a fun-loving, eco-friendly cruiser. It is forgiving and smooth to ride , while still enabling tricks and rougher riding. Biocomposites bring the traditional wooden board into this day...

If tennis is your game and you're looking for help that a ball-spitting machine can't provide, luxury gym chain Virgin Active has your back. They've built a drone to drop your racquet's prey from above so you can work on...

YouTube personality Colin Furze has created some explosive, flashy things in the past, such as a Mad Max-style flamethrower guitar, and an explosive Death Star because, why not I suppose.

This post was very difficult to write. Every time I managed to get a few words on the page, I would start making ridiculous noises. Look at its little flippers! Its face! Those large eyes!

Scientists are scouring the universe for evidence of extraterrestrial life, but have you ever wondered how life began on Earth? Let physicist David Kaplan explain in the latest installment of Quanta's "In Theory" video s...

If you've been intrigued by the idea of messing about with a $9 PC but had no idea what you'd do with it, Next Thing Co.'s PocketCHIP turns its tiny computer into a portable gaming machine, music editor and learning tool...

Bjork Digital is almost Bjork: The Theme Park. The installation, which opened in Tokyo earlier this week, includes a movie theater showing a two-hour-long showcase of the artist's videography. Around the corner from ther...

The concept behind the short film "Fabricating Performance" by the Interactive Architecture Lab and the study that surrounds it concerns reciprocation in design.

Scientists at MIT have designed an ingenious new concept for a battery that operates on the same fundamental principal as an hourglass--it relies on gravity to generate energy. They described the device in a recent paper...

There's a strong momentum behind the Adidas brand right now. That's largely due to the increasing popularity of the company's running and lifestyle products, with Kanye West's Yeezy line being chief among them. Still, am...

The BlackBerry OS is clearly dead and buried, and now BlackBerry the company is doing all it can to avoid a similar fate. The smartphone maker is now pinning its last hopes on Android, with three new devices rumored to b...

After five years and 445 million miles, NASA's Juno mission arrives in orbit around Jupiter on Monday to begin an unprecedented scientific study of the behemoth planet that shaped our solar system.

Sure, we give Toyota a lot of crap for building wildly successful, reliable and boring appliance-cars, but somewhere deep in their organization is a loon with a dream of building insane flying cars. I'm pretty sure this ...

Just in case you needed more evidence that professional-level video game tournaments are becoming mainstream entertainment, the ESPN television network has announced that it will be broadcasting the Street Fighter V worl...

With a film like Finding Dory in theaters, it's hard to argue against Pixar and their sequels. The movie is a delight and it's doing gangbusters. Several more sequels are coming in the next few years: Cars 3, Toy Story 4...

By Cat DiStasio Food production, processing and transportation account for a tremendous amount of greenhouse gas emissions, and enormous amounts of food are wasted each year in some parts of the world while other regions...

Shirley Anderson of Indiana was in great need of a prosthesis.

You don't hear about the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative much anymore, but with its partner One Education, it made waves with its cheap, simple, and rugged XO laptop designed for children in poorer countries. Now ...