Category: Design

Aerospike rocket engines are the stuff of legend in the space industry. Conceived in the 1960s, their unique spiked-nozzle design promises better efficiency, reusability, and performance at all altitudes. But their complexity — and the shutdown of major space programmes towards the end of the 20th century — meant they never entered the mainstream.  But...

Irish startup Equal1 has unveiled the world’s first quantum computer that runs on a hybrid quantum-classical silicon chip.  Dubbed Bell-1 — after quantum physicist John Stewart Bell — the computer weighs around 200kg and plugs into a regular electrical socket. The rack-mountable machine is designed to simply slot into high-performance computing (HPC) data centres alongside...

Angry Miao is known for ridiculous, over-the-top mechanical keyboard designs, but now it’s made a gaming mouse that’s, you guessed it: ridiculous and over-the-top. It’s also cool as all hell, starts at $125 on a Kickstarter preorder special ending March 17th, and may be my new favorite mouse. The AM Infinity Mouse has a skeletonized...

Image: Asus Asus has been having some trouble with its high-end gaming motherboards. As the newest graphics cards launched, reviewers noticed some scratches and chips on motherboards with the Q-Release Slim system, which lets you pull a card out of its PCIe slot without using latches or buttons. Based on some retail photos, the latest...

March 14, 2025 10:00 AM Did you ever wonder who designs the future? It’s Territory. Image Credit: Territory Marti Romances, creative director and cofounder of Territory Studio SF, has created “future-facing” designs for everything from a GM concept car to the user interfaces in video games. Romances’ studio, which is the San Francisco office of...

March 12, 2025 6:00 AM Nunu.ai Image Credit: Nunu.ai Nunu.ai has raised $6 million and unveiled Unembodied Minds, or AI agents designed for game testing and to control any given body and perform a task in any environment. These AI agents will be versatile enough to test hundreds of game levels and do other tasks...

Motorola is the latest brand to go all-in with the ”AI on phone” trend for its 2025 lineup, following in the footsteps of big players like Google, Samsung, and nearly every other notable Chinese label. As per a fresh leak, Motorola’s upcoming Edge-series phone will be among its first non-foldable phones to offer the company’s...

Apple is expected to release its thinnest phone yet later this year with the iPhone 17 Air. Rumors have held that the phone will be thinner than the 6.9mm iPhone 6 was, but recent leaks give us a better idea than we’ve had before of what to expect. Rumors of the iPhone 17 Air’s dimensions...

AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, or DeepSeek have radically disrupted the way we access and generate information. However, these systems are general — they are jacks of all trades but masters of none.  Increasingly, though, scientists are training AI to solve very specific problems and fast-track everything from creating new drugs to designing fusion reactors....

Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images Since its introduction in 1886 by Karl Benz, the automobile has been a fundamental force that changed the world. From enabling economic growth, bridging distances, and accelerating the development of countries, cars have helped shape life as it is today. What’s important to consider, however, is that automobiles also have their downside,...