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ROBOTICS
Brick-laying robot can build a full-sized house in two days
	As robots get smarter, cheaper and more versatile, they're taking on more challenges – including bricklaying. Engineers in Australia have created a fully working house-builder that can create the brick framework of a property in just two days, working about 20 times faster than a human bricklayer.  read more
GAMES
Review - Batman: Arkham Knight (PS4)
	The Batman: Arkham series did for superhero games what Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy did for superhero movies. Does Arkham Knight give this storyline the send-off it deserves?  read more
COMPUTERS
Review: Taking a dip in Touchjet's Pond
	After a successful crowdfunding campaign, Touchjet started shipping its Android computer/projector to backers last month. Gizmag was sent one of the first units off the production line for review.  read more
AUTOMOTIVE
New tech, similar face for new lightweight Audi A4
	It might look like all the other Audis that have been launched in the past few years, but you're staring at the brand-new, totally redesigned A4. The new A4 takes advantage of autonomous driving tech and a lightweight construction to save fuel and improve performance. read more
HEALTH AND WELLBEING
Nox Smart Sleep System offers suggestions to improve slumber
	China's Sleepace has announced a smart light called the Nox that's designed to work with its successfully-crowdfunded RestOn smart strap to help monitor, track and improve sleep quality.  read more
ENVIRONMENT
European climate at mercy of retreating sea ice
	An international team of scientists has found that retreating sea ice between the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans is linked to significantly weakened air-sea heat exchange in the region since 1979. This, it warns, could result in a cooler climate in western Europe.  read more
ARCHITECTURE
Luca Curci Architects envisions Vertical City for the Middle East
	Italian architecture firm Luca Curci Architects recently unveiled its ambitious vision for a huge skyscraper in the Middle East. The aptly-named Vertical City would rest on the sea bed and rise out of the water to a height of 750 m (2,460 ft).   read more
ROBOTICS
Mind-controlled telepresence robot to get paralyzed people out and about
	A telepresence robot developed at EPFL that can be controlled by thought may give people with severe motor disabilities a greater level of independence by enabling them to wander around their home or office and interact with people while their body remains in a hospital bed.  read more
DIGITAL CAMERAS
Spherical, throwable Explorer camera to land in 100 US police departments
	Bounce Imaging is getting ready to send 100 of its Explorer cameras to police departments across the US, in an attempt to make life safer for personnel who are often forced to jump headlong into potentially dangerous situations without a clear picture of what they'll face.  read more
OUTDOORS
Near-smokeless, fan-assisted Homping Grill makes charcoal grilling easier
	The Homping Grill makes charcoal grilling cleaner and easier, using a battery-powered fan to increase efficiency, cut down on the amount of charcoal needed to cook, and nearly eliminate smoke.  read more
BICYCLES
Roll Play is a multi-camera quiz show – shot from a bike
	It's now pretty common for people to use an actioncam to record their bicycle trips. What isn't so common, however, is to see someone cycling with up to nine cameras going at once. That's just what Rich Collier does, however, in the production of his Roll Play TV quiz show.  read more
SPACE
Microsoft's HoloLens Sidekick experiment lost in CRS-7 explosion
	When the unmanned CRS-7 flight blew up, it destroyed a dozens of experiments. One of these was Sidekick, which used HoloLens technology to provide astronauts with their own holographic augmented reality.  read more
HEALTH AND WELLBEING
Student-designed pill dispenser uses fingerprint scanner to avoid overdosing
	And you thought that regular pill bottles were hard to open ... a new overdose-proof medication dispenser developed by a team of mechanical engineering students at Johns Hopkins University can't be opened even with the help of a hammer or drill.  read more
BICYCLES
Morgan Threewheeler gets the velomobile treatment
	The Morgan Threewheeler is definitely a unique vehicle, although it ain't cheap. That said, if it's mainly just the look of the thing that you like, you might consider saving quite a few bucks and going with a new human/electric hybrid replica.  read more
SCIENCE
New nanogenerator might set energy-generating car wheels in motion
	Armed with a special nanogenerator and a toy Jeep, researchers have demonstrated that the energy wastage caused by friction as car tires roll across the road can be captured and turned into electricity. It's a development that could bring about better fuel efficiency in cars of the future.   read more
HEALTH AND WELLBEING
T.brush aims to make some big improvments to the electric toothbrush
	Having clean, healthy teeth is important, and doing so involves using a quality toothbrush. A new project is aiming to make the electric toothbrush a little better and a whole lot cooler, with the introduction of the T.brush.  read more
MOBILE TECHNOLOGY
What does today's new Surface Pro 3 model mean for the Surface Pro 4?
	It's possible we'll see a Surface Pro 4 launch alongside the Windows 10 release next month, but Microsoft hasn't finished yet with the Surface Pro 3. Today the tech giant released a new tier for the popular 2-in-1. read more
CHILDREN
Camatte Vision: Seeing the augmented reality of Toyota Design
	Toyota displayed the fourth episode in its Camatte series of exploratory concept vehicles at the 2015 Tokyo Toy Show. This year also had car design in miniature, for children to create their own concepts on a tablet and drive them around a model town, all in augmented reality.  read more
ELECTRONICS
Wonder-ink could soon let you 3D print objects out of stretchy graphene
	A new 3D-printing ink could soon make it possible to build objects made of graphene for 60 percent of their volume and 75 percent of their weight. This means that the electric and mechanical properties of graphene might soon find their way into all kinds of 3D-printed creations.  read more
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