Urban-escape Ford Transit camper van with mobile office surfs the waves and web

Tired of staring at the paper-littered wall of your off-white office cubicle? Perhaps a mobile office is the solution. At least this one is. This ultimate work/play off-grid adventure van escapes the 9-to-5, packing a multifunctional interior complete with an impressive productivity and multimedia suite centered around a foldaway office with integrated iMac. Whether it's a holiday or workday, you can cruise the city, coastline and wilderness without worrying about falling behind at work.

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Category: Automotive

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• Campervan
• Camping
• DIY
• Ford
• Motorhome
• Motorhomes
• Off-grid
• Outdoor
• Surfing
• Travel
• Van

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InSight detects what is believed to be first "marsquake"

NASA's Insight Mars lander has recorded what is likely the first ever detected earthquake – or marsquake – on the planet Mars. Picked up by the unmanned lander's Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument, the extremely faint subsurface vibrations were recorded on April 6, 2019, or the mission's 128th Martian day on the Red Planet.

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Category: Space

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• Mars
• NASA

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Sleek, app-controlled portable fridge keeps food and beverages chilled on your road trip

As SUVs have slimmed into more efficient, urban-friendly crossovers, certain vehicle-camping gear has slimmed down along with them, as seen with the new generation of teardrop trailers. Iceco brings forth the latest compact car camping gadget, a super-portable fridge/freezer that looks as much like a digital picnic basket as an in-vehicle refrigerator. The handy iFreezer Go20 keeps your food fresh and drinks cold without the need for messy ice.

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Category: Outdoors

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• Camping
• Fridge
• Indiegogo
• Off-grid
• Outdoor
• Refrigerator
• Travel

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Alta Devices' new HALE solar product could help flying phone towers take off

We first covered California-based Alta Devices' solar cells being used on UAVs in 2013, when they enabled a prototype solar-powered version of AeroVironment's Puma AE small UAV to stay aloft for over nine hours. Looking to give high altitude long endurance (HALE) UAVs the ability to stay in the air for much, much longer – even years at a time – the company has just released its Anylight Solar for HALE product.

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Category: Aircraft

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• Solar Cell
• UAV

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Gallery: The incredible overall winners of the 2019 Sony World Photography Awards

After a couple of months of slow reveals, the final overall winners of the 2019 Sony World Photography Awards have been announced featuring a provocative array of images. The impressive assortment of winners in one of the world's largest photo competitions cover everything from moving photojournalism to impressionistic underwater photography.

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Category: Digital Cameras

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• Competition
• Photography
• Sony

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Video game may provide an earlier-than-ever indication of Alzheimer's

Alzheimer's disease is typically first noticed in the form of memory problems, although the condition is typically quite advanced by that stage. In order to catch it earlier, scientists have developed a video game that assesses players' spatial navigation skills.

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Category: Health & Wellbeing

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• Alzheimer's Disease
• CNRS
• University College London
• University of East Anglia
• Video Games

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Inflatable weight-loss capsule is activated by a magnet

For several years now, obese people have been able to lose weight by swallowing capsules that inflate within the stomach, providing a sense of fullness. While such capsules have had to be inflated via a catheter fed down the throat, scientists have now created one that's activated magnetically.

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Category: Medical

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• Inflatable
• Nanyang Technological University
• Obesity
• Weight Loss

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