Add-on electric module gives any inline skates a power boost

When it comes to motorized inline skates, pretty much every product we've seen requires you to buy a whole new set of electric skates. The Blade Booster is different, as it adds a removable powered wheel to your existing third-party rollerblades.

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Europe plays catch-up to China with gargantuan wind turbine

There's an enormous new offshore wind turbine coming up in Denmark courtesy of Siemens Gamesa. But as it turns out, even at 21 MW, it's not nearly big enough to hold a candle to what China's got cooking.

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Coming soon: Invisible hearing aids built into your glasses

These glasses from Nuance Audio hide clever tech in the frame to help you hear better in noisy environments, without the need for traditional in-ear hearing aids. They'll run for 8 hours on a charge, and are indistinguishable from regular glasses.

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Origami-inspired floor design cuts concrete and steel use by half

A reusable formwork design for molding concrete into vaulted floors using sophisticated structural geometry uses 60% less concrete and 90% less steel compared to traditional methods. It's also inexpensive and doesn't require special skills.

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Suzuki is the latest to go electric with its e-Address scooter

The electrification expansion continues as Suzuki takes its first steps toward its very own electric future with the e-Address electric scooter. With a 54-mile range, it comes with most of the bells and whistles you'd expect on an urban commuter.

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Infinite loops, infinite power: Harnessing wind for off-grid energy

It's only fitting that the company generating electricity by loop-de-looping a ground-tethered winged drone is from North Carolina. After all, North Carolina is the birthplace of human flight.

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AI tech tracks the welfare of farmed fish, by watching each one breathe

Stressed fish tend to become unhealthy fish, so it's very important that fish farm operators spot stress as early as possible. A new AI-based system could help them do so, by monitoring the rate at which each fish breathes.

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Review: 2025 Chevrolet Equinox and Equinox EV aren’t as similar as you might think

The 2025 Chevrolet Equinox comes in two basic flavors: gasoline-powered and battery electric. The two are not mechanically related, but their naming means consumers see them as the same. And so I drove them both.

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Plesiosaurs may have combined skin and scales for better swimming and feeding

You might think that by now, we would have learned all we're ever going to know about plesiosaurs. Such is not the case, however, as a recent study indicates that the creatures had smooth skin on some parts of their body, and hard scales on others.

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Watch: Can you feel the chop when flying in a foiling e-ferry?

Despite having great sea legs, I remember feeling a little green in the gills when faced with strong winds and choppy waters on an island hop a few years back. Would the trip have been smoother in a foiling ferry? A video from Candela has the answer.

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