How skis meet snow be the difference between winning gold or silver. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Every ski and snowboarding event at the 2026 Winter Olympics is won through a combination of sheer athleticism, quick thinking, creativity, and persistence. But like so many other sports, competitors know their choice of equipment can mean the difference earning the gold or silver medal. A ski is built for function over form, and manufacturers have spent decades adapting and honing their products to ensure wearers get the best results.

Sports pushes the science of keeping time forward. A broadcast drone hovers as Britain's Makayla Gerken Schofield competes in the freestyle skiing women's moguls. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Athletes competing in this year's Winter Olympic Games in Milan will do so surrounded by a complex web of AI-enabled cameras, stopwatches, sensors, and fast-flying drones capable of tracking performance down to fractions of a second. The high-tech timekeeping system, the culmination of nearly a century of constant iteration, is fundamentally reshaping how viewers at home experience the Games.

Technology Engineering Man solves ceiling fans' most annoying problem His 3D-printed device finally shows a ceiling fans' speed. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Anyone who's used an overhead ceiling fan knows it can be a pain to work. Yanking its chain gets the motor running, but there's no easy visual indication of what speed setting the fan is on. The blades can also take a frustratingly long time to reach their full speed.

Every day, 50,000 mattresses are tossed in the trash in the United States. A relative of penicillin could be the cure. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Shopping for a new mattress can be stressful--this is something you plan to sleep on for years to come, after all. But your old one can be its own problem for the environment .

Over 11 years, citizen scientists collected billions of data signals for the SETI@home project. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. After reviewing almost 30 years of signals, University of California Berkeley researchers have identified 100 mysterious, deep-space radio blips they want to review for signs of extraterrestrial life . And they couldn't have done it without 11 years of volunteer work from millions of PC owners around the world. Even with today's advanced computers, the world's most complex data problems can't be solved by a single machine.

How pilots avoid thunderstorms--and what happens when they can't Most commercial planes get struck by lightning a couple times a year. Despite the fears of nervous fliers, radar, routing, and teamwork keep planes safe during storms. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. In the 2023 movie starring Gerard Butler, a commercial aircraft is caught in a terrible storm. The plane shakes and the lights go out.

From a TV that creates color in a totally different way to room-aware surround sound. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. The smartphone era has brought about an era of convergence when it comes to consumer electronics. Tons of devices we used to rely on--small cameras, calculators, flashlights, music players, etc.--have rolled up into our phones. Entertainment has experienced a similar move toward a small-screen singularity.

Technology Best of What's New 5 personal care products that solved real problems in 2025 We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. In a market saturated with wellness products that promise to fix your whole life but rarely deliver much of anything, this year's personal care winners stand out for actually solving real problems. The 2025 class represents genuine inclusivity and thoughtful design--from a breast pump that goes old school to level up its wearability, to world-class headphones that double as hearing aids and workout coaches. Instead, they address overlooked challenges with smart engineering: making fragrance bottles easier to grip, transforming sleep routines for exhausted parents, and rethinking recovery gear so athletes can soothe strained muscles while on the move. Each winner proves that meaningful innovation happens when companies consider users' actual needs--and use that knowledge to make good products great.

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Deep down, we want to be cyborgs. We spend huge chunks of time interacting with technology every day, but the friction created by devices and interfaces persists. This year, we got closer than we have been to tech that truly augments reality. Meta took its smart glasses beyond its beginning as a simple content creation tool.

Technology Engineering 2,500 'high-risk' U.S. dams are sinking into the ground Radar shows that the damage may be out of sight for inspectors. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Dams across the United States are in dire need of repairs, and the critical infrastructure may be even worse off than engineers anticipated. According to geoscientists, over 2,500 of the more than 16,700 structures in the country are classified as high hazard potentials and in "poor condition." This classification means that the dams that would cause significant death and destruction if compromised.