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14-story tall cylinder could generate electricity from ocean waves
by Abhimanyu Ghoshal
It isn't easy harnessing the power of waves to generate electricity, but a Spanish engineering firm is giving it the ol' college try with a giant floating buoy. IDOM is testing its low-power wave-energy converter off the coast of Northern Spain.
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Highlights
AutomotiveTransport
JCB's hydrogen car chases 350 mph to nearly double world record
by Omar Kardoudi
JCB's Hydromax – a 1,600 hp, twin-engine hydrogen beast nearly 33 feet long – heads to Bonneville this August targeting a new land speed record, as the British excavator giant bets its industrial future on hydrogen combustion.
ArchitectureEngineering
Habitable bridge spans 100 feet over two streams in rural India
by Stefan Ionescu
Built across a 7-meter gorge in India by Wallmakers, the 100-ft Bridge House is made of mud, steel, and a pangolin-inspired thatch roof. The simple 4,500-sq-ft home expertly conquers extreme terrain while also fitting perfectly into its environment.
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MotorcyclesTransport
BMW's Vision K18: Long, low and inspired by aircraft
by Utkarsh Sood
So this is what a Harley-Davidson Bagger would look like if BMW Motorrad made it. Not too shabby! BMW recently took to the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este on Lake Como to unveil the Vision K18 concept motorcycle, and it’s got the whole industry on notice.
RoboticsEngineering
New 3D printing tech is set to give robots human-like muscles
by Etiido Uko
The day is coming when you may walk past a robot and not know it was a robot. Engineering has given robots skeletons, brains, and senses. Muscles, however, have remained elusive. Researchers have developed a new muscle system involving 3D printing.
CampervansAdventure VehiclesOutdoors
Nissan builds $14K tiny camper using crazy-versatile everyday material
by C.C. Weiss
Nissan keeps the factory camper vans coming. Its newest is built atop its smallest van, the Clipper kei van, which measures in under 3.4 meters (11.2 feet) long. To make it a micro-camper, Nissan relies on a basic household staple with which everyday DIY handymen have been familiar for ages: pegboard. The van's integrated peg panels serve as a simple, affordable means of holding up the bed and providing highly versatile storage organization for related (and unrelated) outdoor adventures.
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What happens when you throw out the GTM playbook
That investor was wrong. Gamma is now worth $2B, with 50M users and more than half their growth driven by word of mouth.
They're one of 6 AI-native startups in HubSpot for Startups' free Bold Bets Playbook. Replit grew revenue 50x after half the team pushed back on the strategy. Ramp generated 100M+ views from a single stunt. Clay's co-founder wouldn't hang up a sales call until the prospect DMed him in Slack.
Each one took a GTM risk most founders would never greenlight. Each one paid off.
Tiny HousesOutdoors
Spacious tiny house skips loft living for single-floor comfort
by Adam Williams
Not everyone is cut out for climbing into cramped tiny house loft bedrooms. The Tallebudgera addresses this with a spacious layout suitable for full-time living that's arranged on a single floor.
Around The HomeConsumer TechTechnology
Slim home backup keeps fridge, Wi-Fi or CPAP running during an outage
by Monica J. White
Sierro is a compact LiFePO4 home backup system designed to slip beside appliances and stay permanently plugged in, automatically switching to battery to power fridges, routers, CPAPs, aquariums and so on when the grid goes down.
Consumer TechTechnology
DJI's new phone gimbal gets a detachable display for remote framing
by Abhimanyu Ghoshal
With the new Osmo Mobile 8P, DJI's borrowing a handy feature from its high-end Ronin gimbals for mirrorless cameras for its latest smartphone stabilizer – and then taking things up a notch.
Refractor: Science & Health
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ObesityIllnesses and conditionsBody and Mind
Weight-loss drugs present new hope for adults with asthma
by Bronwyn Thompson
Could glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) nix the inflammation that drives asthma? Maybe, according to a large national study of more than 27,000 older adults, which was presented to scientists last week.
PhysicsScience
The fate of a collapsing star could depend on the turn of a ghost
by Mike McRae
Like the spin of a cosmic coin, a unique set of particle oscillations could ultimately decide the fate of the Universe’s biggest suns. These new findings suggest that current descriptions of core-collapse supernovae may actually be incomplete.
BiologyScience
Revealing a 'hidden order' of molecules could finally shed light on alien life
by Chris Young
Is life really out there? A team of scientists from the University of California, Riverside, has devised a new statistical method that could serve as more than a cosmic thought experiment, potentially providing answers to the age-old question.
BiologyScience
US company claims it made an artificial egg in a plan to 'de-extinct' birds
by The Conversation
Texas-based company says its artificial egg supports the full development of bird embryos outside a biological eggshell, without requiring supplemental oxygen. The work is part of its plan to “de-extinct” birds, including the giant moa and dodo.
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