50 years in the making, a restored streamliner claims the land speed record

[AUTOMOTIVE]( [50 years in the making, a restored streamliner claims the land speed record]( ​​For over a century the Bonneville Salt Flats has drawn motoring enthusiasts to its vast open plains for its annual Speed Week, and for more than half a century one father-son duo has eyed a history-making run at the event. That dream has now been realized with a new land speed record being set. [Read more]( [SPECIAL PROMOTION FOR NEW ATLAS READERS]( [​monday.com - collaborate, plan, track & manage all in one tool]( monday.com may be one of the most versatile team management tools on the market. It’s equally suitable for a team of two or a team of thousands, it’s used by agencies, startups, and Fortune 500 companies, and it doesn’t matter whether your team is high-tech or non-tech. monday.com is intuitive, relieves team members having to sit through whiteboard presentations and long meetings, and provides colorful and informative displays to help teams manage every detail of their work. [Read more]( [AUTOMOTIVE]( [Citroën gives van life some retro flavor with the Type H WildCamp concept]( VW's Grand California has the DNA of the classic, campers of the 50s and 60s, but Citroën's all-new Concept Type H WildCamp looks the part. Inspired by the highly distinctive Type H van of half a century ago, this new concept camper looks vintage but rides modern. [Read more]( [COMPUTERS]( [The right to disconnect: The new laws banning after-hours work emails]( In today’s ultra-connected world, with many people often getting work emails sent to their smartphones, a growing number of countries and companies are endorsing “right to disconnect” laws, recreating a much-needed boundary between work and home. [Read more]( [MEDICAL]( [Big data enables algorithm that predicts risk of developing deadly diseases]( A new kind of genome analysis has been developed that combines a large volume of different genetic variants into a single polygenic risk score that can determine how likely a person is to develop a number of common diseases, including coronary artery disease and inflammatory bowel disease. [Read more]( Sponsored by Taboola //gizmagptyltd.cmail19.com/t/d-l-bhyutuk-wtkuhhtil-s///gizmagptyltd.cmail19.com/t/d-l-bhyutuk-wtkuhhtil-w/ [LAPTOPS]( [Lenovo crams workstation power into ultra-thin ThinkPad P1]( The ThinkPad P1 is reported to be Lenovo's thinnest and lightest mobile workstation. It looks to have fallen out of the pages of the X1 Carbon design book, which is no bad thing, and comes with 8th gen Intel processors, up to 64 GB of RAM and can accommodate 4 TB or storage.​ [Read more]( [WEARABLES]( [Motiv Ring review: Fitness tracking on your finger]( The Motiv Ring lets you track steps, activity, heart rate, and sleep with a ring rather than a smartwatch or a wristband, and it's now compatible with Android phones as well as iPhones. Does it offer a better tracking experience than more conventional wearables? Here's our verdict. [Read more]( [ARCHITECTURE]( [Tokyo's House in Ouji blurs the line between home and narrow city streets]( The narrow dead-end streets that stop and start through the city blocks of Tokyo are a distinctive, if not entirely useful, part of the city landscape. Rather than closing itself off to these pint-sized cul-de-sacs, Pluszero’s recently completed House in Ouji opens itself right up. [Read more]( [AUTOMOTIVE]( [Robotic system identifies EVs and charges them up]( ​In order to make electric cars more appealing to consumers, automakers have been experimenting with robotic chargers that automatically plug themselves into specific cars such as Volkswagens or Teslas. A new system, however, is designed to work with a wide variety of electric vehicles. [Read more]( [ARCHITECTURE]( [Green-roofed guest house cantilevers over a Californian hillside]( Judging by its attractive design and amazing views, we'd guess that the owners of the Off-Grid Guest House aren't lacking in visitors. Located in a rural area on California's coast, it juts out over the hillside, and as its name suggests, runs off-the-grid with solar power and its own well. [Read more]( [SPECIAL PROMOTION FOR NEW ATLAS READERS]( [Get an extra 10% off PureVPN!]( PureVPN operates a self-managed VPN network with a large pool of anonymous IPs and 750+ servers in 140+ countries for 100% privacy. 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The IER-Z1R earphones sport a hybrid driver setup for the promise of audiophile-grade listening, while the Hi-Res DMP-Z1 digital music player features a gold-plated volume knob and exclusive price tag to match. [Read more]( [MATERIALS]( [Negative curvature schwarzite rounds out trinity of carbon nanostructures]( Carbon atoms can form graphene sheets and buckyballs. Scientists have theorized that a third variation should exist with negative curvature, known as schwarzite. An international team has now found a way to create these structures, which may have unusual electrical, magnetic and optical properties. [Read more]( [MATERIALS]( [Transparent insulating aerogel brewed up from beer by-product]( Aerogels are among the best thermal insulators, but their cloudy appearance doesn't work for windows, one of the worst offenders for letting heat escape a building. Now, researchers at Colorado University Boulder have found a way to make them transparent, recycling a beer by-product in the process. [Read more]( [GOOD THINKING]( [No-spill bottle is electronically activated by your lips]( ​Opening the "sipping port" on a bottle can be tricky, if you're drinking from it one-handed. If you just leave it open, though, the bottle's contents can slosh out as you drive, etc. The Lyd bottle offers a solution, in the form of a lid that only opens when your lips are touching it. [Read more]( [HEALTH & WELLBEING]( [Stroke-detecting app could eliminate the guesswork]( We've already seen a couple of apps capable of detecting a heart condition which can cause strokes. Now, Spanish scientists have developed an Android app that lets users know if they've actually just experienced a stroke – and if it turns out that they have, it gets help. [Read more]( [TINY HOUSES]( [Valhalla tiny house fits a family of three into 20 feet]( France's relatively strict towing laws mean tiny houses in the country must be much lighter than those in North America. Despite these restrictions, Baluchon managed to build a tiny house that serves as home to a family of three, and can even sleep double that, at a squeeze. [Read more]( You are receiving this email because you signed up for our daily newsletter at [newatlas.com]( (or [gizmag.com]( before August 2016). [Update profile]( | [Unsubscribe]( Copyright New Atlas © 2018