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Cardo, as we told you when we first previewed this device, had the first motorcycle Bluetooth headset back in 2004, and the first rider-to-rider intercom in 2007. Packtalk was another first; a self-healing mesh network that allowed more than a dozen ri… Continue reading Review: Cardo’s Packtalk Black motorcycle headset rocks XL speakers
As quickly as our brains accept virtual reality once our vision and hearing are hijacked, there are plenty of people trying to extend the illusion across our other senses, moving towards a future of total physical immersion that replicates experiences … Continue reading Holotron presents a lower-body VR exoskeleton with full force feedback
This year has been quite a ride for OneWeb and its globe-connecting constellation of low Earth orbiting broadband satellites. After filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in March with just 74 of its initial planned 648 satellites in orbit, the company was r… Continue reading OneWeb emerges from bankruptcy, launching 36 more broadband satellites
People keep falling off motorbikes, it seems, no matter how many times we tell them not to. So since the early 2000s, many companies have been working to get airbag technology into the bike world. Honda, for example, started work on motorcycle-mounted … Continue reading Airbag motorcycle pants may just save your butt
This year has been a huge coming-out party for electric bikes, with sales going through the roof. Why? COVID-19 has been a huge factor – people just don’t want to be smooshing themselves up against unknown disease bags on public transport any more. Als… Continue reading The ebikes that did things differently in 2020
Nissan’s design team has built a full-scale model of Korean designer Jaebum “JB” Choi’s concept of an autonomous supercar for the year 2050. Conceived as a mind-controlled, rolling exoskeleton, the GTR-X is one of the year’s most unusual concepts.Conti… Continue reading Nissan builds baffling, belly-surfing GTR-X 2050 concept
The 1,817-horsepower, US$2.1 million dollar Venom F5 hypercar has been unveiled in production form, along with acceleration figures that would suck the doors off a Koenigsegg Regera and sights firmly set on the recently vacated title of “world’s fastes… Continue reading The production Hennessey Venom F5 is here, and it’s all out of bubblegum
A new piece of open source software can radically speed up the process of DNA sequencing, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. Using a portable sequencer, the UNCALLED software can reduce a 15-day operation down to three days, or even … Continue reading Software breakthrough radically boosts the speed of DNA sequencers
Connecticut-based company LiquidPiston is developing a portable generator for the US Army that uses its X-Engine, a fresh and extremely powerful take on the rotary engine that’ll deliver as much power as the Army’s current-gen-set at one-fifth the size… Continue reading LiquidPiston’s “inside-out” rotary X-Engine wins Army research contract
Israeli company Vayyar says it can replace a bunch of car interior sensors with a single, hidden “4D radar” unit the size of a credit card, saving significant development costs while unlocking a range of upcoming safety features.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading “4D radar-on-a-chip” will keep watch inside cars from 2023