BBC Knowledge April 2017

EVERYONE WANTS TO TALK TO ALEXA This year’s CES was positively bursting with gadgetry that works with Amazon’s AI personal assis ...

U LT R A - PERSONAL AUDIO SYSTEM French company Akoustic Arts has developed a directional loudspeaker called A that only one per ...

French start-up Uzer was showing off Eugene, a smart kitchen bin that uses a barcode scanner to encourage you to recycle product ...

PAPER PLANE POWERUP FPV This assemble-it-yourself drone will give you a bird’s-eye view of what it’s like to fly. First build th ...

SPOT ON NVIDIA SPOT Users of Nvidia’s SHIELD Android TV set-top box will soon be able to add this $ 50 microphone/speaker combo, ...

WHEEL-Y CLEVER ROOL’IN E-SUNNY Electric bicycles are increasingly popular, but they’re expensive. This new invention from French ...

STEM CELL THERAPY HAS THE POTENTIAL TO RESTORE SIGHT Pioneering new technique proven to work in mice PHOTO: ALAMY MEDICINE DISCO ...

S AY goodbye to your reading glasses. Researchers at Japan’s RIKEN Centre for Developmental Biology have restored vision in mice ...

Deep-sea microbes may be the missing link in search for origin of complex life Let us introduce Thor, Loki, Odin and Heimdall o ...

COULD MARTIAN SETTLERS LIVE IN ICE HOUSES? Step aside, Nanook: NASA has announced a Mars base concept that reinvents the igloo. ...

ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE A fortress. A stately country manor. An ivy-covered fairytale mansion... Austria’s castles are many and yo ...

When animals take centrestage | BOOKS ON THE SHELVES 123RF, 5XMOVIESDB, 5XGOODREADS READ NEW READS WORDS: MOSHITA PRAJAPATI THE ...

Indian Reads KING’S CAGE (B&N EXCLUSIVE EDITION) (RED QUEEN SERIES #3) by Victoria Aveyard (HarperCollins Publisher) THE HAN ...

| GAMES ON THE SHELVES Developed by Japanese giant Sony, PlayStation is currently at its 4th generation stage, and has taken ove ...

A hero, a villain, and a princess to be saved. This formula spells out a pure classic, and it’s exactly what makes The Legend of ...

4242 NEW TECH ON THE BLOCK B OTH Apple and Microsoft have launched new flagship computers, in the form of the new MacBook Pro an ...

4343 expected to cost £2,500+ offering a 1TB hybrid solid state/hard disk drive, 8GB of RAM and a 2GB i5 processor. You can have ...

| AROUND THE WORLD TRAVEL & FOOD Parisian authorities have long been worried about the strain the weight thousands of love l ...

5 GREAT-TO-KNOW FACTS ABOUT THE NORTHERN LIGHTS The northern lights are also termed the Aurora Borealis, named after the Roman ...

CORBIS Eye candy ZHENGZHOU PROVINCE, CHINA Motorists driving through the outskirts of Zhengzhou, China, may find themselves dazz ...