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| AUTOMOTIVE |
| Monterey Car Week Auctions: The cars which fetched more than a million |
 | Monterey Car Week saw more auctions and more cars sold than ever before, but just failed to top last year's sales total. Here's our initial analysis and all the links to the cars which sold into the million dollar club. read more |
| ARCHITECTURE |
| Freedom Yurt-Cabins: A modern take on the nomadic shelter |
 | Aurora, Colorado-based Freedom Yurt-Cabins offers an updated take on the millennia-old yurt. The firm's eponymous shelter is available in a number of sizes, with the smallest 217 sq ft (20 sq m) model starting at just under US$12,000. read more |
| ARCHITECTURE |
| Modular high-rise lets residents customize their apartments |
 | Furnishing a new home can be a time consuming experience. For residents of the planned Vijayawada Garden Estate in India, however, this won't be a problem. Its modular design means that everything needed for each apartment can be picked from an accompanying catalog and simply slotted into place. read more |
| SCIENCE |
| Vomiting machine projects better understanding of how stomach bugs spread |
 | To shed further light on how norovirus, one of the world's most common pathogens, spreads between humans, scientists have built a vomiting machine to study its behaviour when projected into the air. read more |
| AUTOMOTIVE |
| 2015 Monterey Car Week and Pebble Beach Concours Pictorial |
 | The sixty fifth anniversary of the first Pebble Beach auto racing weekend is now much greater than anyone could have envisaged when California's Monterey Peninsula community began this journey. Here's Gizmag's round-up of the 2015 event. read more |
| SCIENCE |
| Brain model with maturity of 5-week-old fetus grown in a lab |
 | Using adult human skin cells, researchers at Ohio State University have grown the most advanced human brain model yet created in a laboratory. The nearly complete human brain took 12 weeks to grow and is equivalent in size and structure to that of a five-week old fetus. read more |
| AUTOMOTIVE |
| StoreDot to scale up nanodot battery tech in pursuit of five minute-charging EVs |
 | After completing a round of funding for a new electric vehicle business unit, StoreDot – which last year revealed a smartphone battery that charged in 30 seconds – might just be able to deliver on its vision of EVs that can receive a full charge in just five minutes. read more |
| MOTORCYCLES |
| The Ubco 2x2 tackles tough terrain, powers your tools |
 | The Ubco two-wheel drive electric motorbike boasts quite a skill set. Designed to handle difficult terrain, it provides ample carrying capacity, doubles as a portable power source and offers very low running costs. read more |
| AUTOMOTIVE |
| Fisker and Galpin transform the Mustang into 725-hp Rocket Speedster |
 | Following the debut of the Galpin Rocket last year, Galpin Auto Sports and Henrik Fisker are back with the Speedster version. The new design gives the custom-bodied, 725-hp Mustang a droppable carbon fiber roof. read more |
| SCIENCE |
| New record energy efficiency for artificial photosynthesis |
 | Researchers at Monash University claim to have created a solar-powered device that splits water to produce hydrogen at a world-record 22 percent efficiency, which is a significant step towards making cheap, efficient hydrogen production a reality. read more |
| MARINE |
| Autonomous catamaran begins studying the Celtic Sea |
 | Have you ever wondered why the Celtic Sea is home to so many marine predators? No? Well, scientists at Britain’s National Oceanography Centre have. This month they set about finding out, using a long-endurance autonomous surface vehicle known as the C-Enduro. read more |
| WEARABLE ELECTRONICS |
| Google set to roll out Android Wear's second big 2015 update |
 | We didn't hear much about Android Wear at Google I/O this year, with the platform's biggest updates having already arrived earlier in the year, around the time the Apple Watch launched. But today we heard about Wear's next big update, rolling out just in time for holiday gadget-shopping mania. read more |
| MEDICAL |
| Wearable tech could diagnose lung problems by analyzing wheezes |
 | If someone is wheezing, it usually means that they have a respiratory problem. Soon, however, a wheeze-analyzing wearable device may allow doctors to know what sort of respiratory problem a patient has – and how serious it is. read more |
| SPORTS |
| OnCourse Goggles designed to keep triathletes swimming straight |
 | For triathletes swimming in lakes or the sea, there are no lane markers to follow. That’s why OnCourse Goggles were created. Using LEDs, they show the wearer how to stay … well, on course. read more |
| AUTOMOTIVE |
| Mercedes-AMG says new C 63 Coupé is sportiest C-Class ever |
 | The C-Class is Mercedes-AMG's best-selling model series, and now the firm has unveiled what it says is the sportiest C-Class ever. The C 63 Coupé can accelerate from 0-100 km/h in four seconds. That makes it faster than its predecessor, which held the crown of fastest C-Class ever. read more |
| GAMES |
| Ten of the biggest games due out before the end of 2015 |
 | The last few months of the year are usually packed with quality game releases, and this year looks like it's going to be no different. The problem is that it can be difficult to know where to spend your hard-earned cash. Read on as we highlight ten of the best games set to arrive in 2015. read more |
| URBAN TRANSPORT |
| Specialist vacuum company hops aboard the Hyperloop train |
 | Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT), one of the startups attempting to make the Hyperloop a reality, has today welcomed aboard a company specializing in vacuum technology that will help shape a prototype test track due to begin construction next year. read more |
| WEARABLE ELECTRONICS |
| The Microsoft Band just got even better for golfers |
 | Microsoft announced its partnership with TaylorMade earlier this year, and instantly brought a number of useful golfing features to its Band wearable. Things are about to get even better, with the fitness wearable now working with TaylorMade's myRoundPro service, providing in-depth post-round stats. read more |
| SPECIAL PROMOTION FOR GIZMAG READERS |
| How System Restore & Factory Reset Work in Windows 10 |
 | You’ve upgraded to Windows 10, or you’re about to. But once you’ve made the change, you want to be certain that you can backup and restore your data quickly and conveniently. System Restore and Factory Reset have been included in Windows 10, and are better than they were in Windows 8.x. Download this free guide today to learn more! read more |
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