The Osprey Farpoint 70 backpack, priced at $138 (was $230), is a great option for long-term travel. You’ll want a single backpack that can accommodate everything, from clothes to electronics, and Osprey designed this pack to do exactly that. It has a 55-liter main compartment that can be coupled with a 15-liter daypack that snaps out to give you a total capacity of 70 liters.
Photo credit: Chris Williams
On January 19, 2026, NASA astronaut Chris Williams took amazing images of an aurora while floating high above the Mediterranean Sea onboard the International Space Station. The final sight is breathtaking, with blazing green and red light ribbons arching along the Earth’s edge and European city lights glittering like stars beneath, with a view north from the Italian coast to Germany.
Researchers at EPFL in Lausanne, in partnership with MIT, have developed a cutting-edge robotic hand that far outperforms typical fixed arm setups. This device can just drop off, walk around on its own across various terrains, pick up objects, and return to its original spot with ease, all while accomplishing jobs that other robotic systems fail to complete.
The LEGO Group and Crocs have formed a multi-year agreement to bring the iconic snap of their plastic bricks to the world of everyday footwear. The partnership was announced this week, and it is all about creating products that combine Crocs’ ultra-comfortable, adjustable footwear with LEGO’s creative construction mentality.
People usually go for store-bought batteries because they are less expensive and easier to use, but when performance is critical, custom work is the way to go. A worn-out lead-acid battery in a midsize electric ATV prompted one builder to replace the factory pack and start over using LiFePO4 cells. The chemistry has some obvious advantages: it has a better energy density than traditional lead-acid batteries, provides consistent power delivery even when the pack is low on charge, and is far safer than many other lithium varieties.
A California startup has just begun accepting reservations for the world’s first hotel on the Moon, and the prices aren’t cheap. A deposit of ranging from $250,000 to $1 million will secure your seat in a project that won’t begin until 2032. Galactic Resource Utilization Space, also known as GRU Space, began the booking process in mid-January 2026.
This lamp appears to be a typical wall light, but what truly sets it apart is its flickering, pulsating glow. Rootkid, the creator of this brilliant idea, refers to it as the Spectrum Slit. Every time it blinks or flashes, it is caused by radio waves in the air, Wi-Fi signals clogging up your home network, Bluetooth traffic jostling for space, and even your microwave churning away at 2.4 and 5GHz.
A room gradually filled with a faint hum as silverish figures begin to stir from their immobile position. LimX Dynamics, the Shenzhen-based company that is developing those full-size humanoid robots, this week presented an excellent video of its Oli model performing what they describe the world’s first completely practical autonomous deployment. Whether or not this makes it the world’s first, 18 units emerged from their shipment boxes, got up on their own, walked in formation, and finished with a little coordinated routine that gives you a good idea of what manufacturing floors with robot teams would be like.
Anker’s Nano Charger with Smart Display, priced at $29.99 after clipping the on-page coupon (was $39.99), is here to serve as a much-needed wake-up call in a world where we typically only care about our phones when they run out of juice in the middle of the day. This ultra compact 45W plug is more than simply a power delivery device; it’s a whole new ballgame. A small screen incorporated into the front allows you to monitor the current charging session, the speed in Watts, the battery percentage, the device temperature, and even the device being detected.
Photo credit: Chris Williams
Astronaut Chris Williams was floating on board the International Space Station when it flew over a familiar location, and he captured a photo that throws the Artemis II mission into great focus. The image shows NASA Kennedy Space Center on Florida’s coast, where the SLS rocket is now placed on Launch Pad 39B.