George Block of consumer.org.nz has been putting the latest barbecue models to the test, from portables to 4-burner behemoths. He's measured how well they're made, how easy they are to use, and how well they cook steak, sausages, chicken wings, and a whole chicken. With one manufacturer dominating the results, good budget options are hard to find.

Eating high-calorie foods causes changes to the the bacteria living inside your gut which can hamper weight loss and contribute to yo-yo dieting, according to a new study.

A 24,000 kilometre long trail for trampers, cyclists and paddlers in Canada is nearly complete. The Great Trail's been nearly 25 years in the planning but when all the work is done, hopefully next year to coincide with Canada's 150th anniversary, it will become the longest recreational trail in the world.

Along a fractured highway, and using VR to teach the surgeons of the future.

After the 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck at 12.02am on Monday 14th November near Hanmer Springs in the South Island of New Zealand, Simon Morton takes a trip by mountain bike north of Kaikoura to Blenheim along State Highway 1, seeing how locals and visitors are coping with the aftermath of the quake in some badly affected areas.

The world's first virtual reality operation was streamed live from London recently to an audience in the tens of thousands in 140 countries.

Tracking eyes to save lives, is Amazon heading Down Under?, a Google Maps for the human body and the global thirst for bottled water.

A local insurer is encouraging its customers to try in-vehicle eye tracking technology as a way of reducing road accidents. This Way Up looks at how this eye tracking technology works with Charles Dawson from Autosense and Ian Taylor from NZI Lumley.

This week, the giant retailer Amazon looks like it could be coming to Australia. Meanwhile, you might soon have to pay GST on all the goods you buy online, not just purchases of digital goods including music, software and films and TV shows. Yikes! Also the rise of the chatbot and how tech giants including Facebook are embracing this technology, using tailored chatbots to act as our personal assistants, and to sell us stuff.

Birch water, canned water, electrolyte-enhanced water, children specific agua...the global market for H20 is going off! And even if you aren't thirsty the marketers will make sure there's a water to fit your lifestyle, and hydrate the inner You. According to journalist Sophie Elmhirst, bottled water has become the fastest growing drinks market in the world, with global sales already totalling NZ$200 billion, and projected to hit nearly NZ$400 billion by 2020.