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High-end Citroen spinoff DA Automobiles has presented the concept it’s taking to Geneva. The all-electric Aero Sport Lounge is a sharp-looking crossover with an arresting interior that aspires to avant-garde as much as aerodynamics.Continue ReadingCate… Continue reading DS Aero Sport Lounge concept debuts ultrasonic, haptic 3D air-controls
The world’s largest museum has released a treasure trove of nearly three million images for free use, including 3D scans. That means you can now 3D-print yourself a range of the Smithsonian’s historically significant artefacts, or put them into games o… Continue reading The Smithsonian has released a treasure trove of images and 3d scans
Finnish company Revonte has given us a glimpse into the future of e-bikes with a new compact drive system that integrates a motor, automatic stepless transmission and a bunch of electronics into a single tight unit with open control software.Continue R… Continue reading Revonte’s powerful e-bike motor has a built-in stepless transmission
Who knew the venerable violin still had surprises in store for us, after nearly 500 years as one of the leading voices in music? An Australian master archetier, or bow-maker, has built a simple device that allows violinists to easily alternate between … Continue reading Hinged bow lets any violin player sound like a quartet
Filmmaking is entering a new era, powered by the technology that’s made video games some of the most compelling entertainment in recent history. It’s not green-screen CGI as we know it, either – it’s the creation of whole digitally projected sets.Conti… Continue reading The Mandalorian’s “Unreal” sets: A new age of game-based filmmaking
“We are sidestepping all of the scientific challenges that have held fusion energy back for more than half a century,” says the director of an Australian company that claims its hydrogen-boron fusion technology is already working a billion times better… Continue reading Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech
Supercapacitors can charge almost instantly, and discharge enormous amounts of power if needed. They could completely erase the Achilles heel of electric vehicles – their slow charging times – if they could hold more energy. And now Chinese and British… Continue reading Researchers achieve a 10x supercapacitor energy density breakthrough
California’s Zero Motorcycles is turning 14 this year, and for as long as we can remember, people have been crying out for this electric motoring pioneer to make a bike with aerodynamic fairings on it. Well, the day has finally come. Based on the class… Continue reading Zero finally unveils its fully faired, electric SR/S sports tourer
Max Verstappen and Alex Albon from the Aston Martin Red Bull Formula One team joined Aston Martin high-performance test driver Chris Goodwin to take the upcoming Valkyrie hybrid hypercar out for some test laps at Silverstone, as rumors began to spread … Continue reading F1 drivers test Aston Martin’s Valkyrie, but Le Mans might be off
Further details have dropped on quirky Kiwi company UBCO’s lightweight electric dirtbike, the FRX1. At just 132 lb (60 kg), it packs 15 kW (20 hp) of torquey grunt, and offers a range up to 62 miles (100 km) – at a price that might make it a winner.Con… Continue reading UBCO’s FRX1 hits the sweet spot between ebikes and electric dirt bikes