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AskMen.com
David Applebaum |
First You Need A Chair Here are a few strategies to help you start your chair collection and create a home that reflects your own style and attitude.   |
Popular Mechanics
November 4, 2009
Harry Sawyers |
5 (Fake) Future Products From the Stanley Black & Decker Merger Creative and humorous new tools that might be expected from the merger of Stanley and Black & Decker such as the FuBuster and the AutoFat Tape Measure. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2009
Joseph Truini |
Pro Tips For Installing Crown Molding Over the course of a dozen jobs, I've come up with a few shortcuts -- I don't really remember where I learned a lot of these tricks, I just know them. |
Popular Mechanics
October 30, 2009 |
Socket Wrench Design Wars The hand-tool market is so competitive that any good idea is bound to breed copycats. |
Popular Mechanics
October 29, 2009
Harry Sawyers |
Halloween Vandalism: How to Prevent It -- And How to Clean It Up Minimizing darkness by keeping your property well-lit is the best preventative measure for homeowners concerned about the risk of an egging, a toilet-papering, a pumpkin-smashing or a mailbox-bashing |
Popular Mechanics
November 2009 |
How to Ditch Wi-Fi for a High-Speed, Ethernet-Wired Home It turns out that nothing beats a hard-wired connection for setup simplicity, reliability and speed. |
Popular Mechanics
October 26, 2009
Harry Sawyers |
What to Expect From the Cash for Appliance Program Homeowners should consider $100 per machine a windfall profit. But here's some added value -- the recycling service typically picks up the old appliance for free. |
Popular Mechanics
October 23, 2009
Mark Williams |
2010 Dodge Ram HD 2500/3500 Test Drive: Heavy Hauling Diesel Power Though the 2010 Ram HD looks new from the outside, much of the big truck's foundation and powertrains remain the same. |
Popular Mechanics
October 23, 2009
Harry Sawyers |
Do Dryer Balls Work? As Seen on TV Lab Test Difficult to detect a noticeable difference -- other than increased noise -- when drying with the Balls. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2009
Mike Allen |
The Case Against Magnetic Screwdrivers The simplest way to get the magnetic effect without buying new tools is to temporarily magnetize the tip of your nearest screwdriver. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2009
Sean Captain |
How to Get a More Connected, Intelligent Home Theater From our experience with some of the most advanced AV gear, we've identified several trends to keep on top of as you bring your TV room into the 21st century. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2009
Logan Ward |
10 Most Brilliant Innovators of 2009: Sodium-Sulfur Home Battery The most popular alternatives to fossil fuels for generating electricity -- wind and solar -- don't look so good once the sun sets and the wind dies down. |
Popular Mechanics
October 20, 2009
Joe P. Hasler |
The Key to the Battery-Powered House: Q&A With Ceramatec Ceramatec's advanced-materials specialists and electrochemists have developed a sodium-sulfur battery that potentially could produce 5 kilowatt-hours for 4 hours before needing to recharge. |
Popular Mechanics
October 19, 2009 |
14 Projects to Make the Ultimate DIY Haunted House Here are 14 projects from Instructables that will make your haunted home the envy of all others on the block. |
Popular Mechanics
October 16, 2009 |
Winners Announced in Solar Decathlon Competition Twenty teams, were pitted against one another in a showdown of architecture and engineering. |
Fast Company
November 2009
Tim McKeough |
Somnus-Neu: Grier Govorko's Multimedia Bed The Somnus-Neu makes you want to do everything but sleep. |
Popular Mechanics
October 14, 2009
Jennifer Bogo |
Ohio State's Solar Decathlon Entry Is Entirely Home-Grown The house, which can produce 5.84 kilowatts with its 28 Sanyo solar panels, is net-zero in terms of energy -- it produces as much power as it consumes. |
Popular Mechanics
October 14, 2009 |
Cornell University Silo House at Solar Decathlon 2009 Cornell's Solar Decathlon entry looks less like a cutting-edge, high-tech home than like a cluster of rusted grain silos. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2009 |
10 Most Brilliant Products of 2009: Andalay AC Solar PV Panel New panels from Andalay incorporate microinverters, along with racking and wiring -- and take a big step toward true plug-and-play solar power for the home. |
Popular Mechanics
October 13, 2009
Jennifer Bogo |
University of Illinois Builds a Salvaged Solar Home: Solar Decathlon The Gable Home, built by a team from the University of Illinois, doesn't just echo historic icons of the team's home state -- it's actually constructed of them. |
Popular Mechanics
October 12, 2009
Matt Molnar |
UW's Meltwater House is Inspired by Glaciers: Solar Decathlon Like most project managers rushing to complete their homes at the inception of Solar Decathlon 2009, Eric Harmann hasn't had much sleep. |
Popular Mechanics
October 9, 2009 |
Virginia Tech's Lumenhaus Sports Sliding Solar Panels: Solar Decathlon Hard-hatted Department of Energy inspectors roamed the Solar Decathalon job sites with check lists |
Popular Mechanics
October 2009 |
How to Use Less Energy in Your Home Theater Good suggestions for ways to minimize power use in components such as sound systems and HDTV's. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2, 2009
Crystal Ola |
Cleaning Up Outdoor Wood-Burning Furnaces For areas with excess wood -- from fallen trees or nearby lumber operations -- an outdoor wood-fired furnace can be a cheap and efficient way to heat a home, but the pollution can have detrimental effects on neighbors and communities. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2009 |
How to Install a Wood Pellet Stove These clean-burning stoves form one leg of a dual-fuel strategy that is appealing to growing numbers of homeowners concerned with personal independence, sustainability and cost savings. |
Popular Mechanics
October 1, 2009
S.E. Kramer |
5 Blender Show-Down: Abusive Lab Test (With Video!) Five blenders are tested and ranked |
Popular Mechanics
October 2009 |
Apocalypse Chow Meals ready-to-eat are the military's answer to a long-term, disaster-proof food supply. These vacuum-packed foodstuffs have all the nutrition necessary to keep you alive. But does the taste inspire the will to survive? |
Popular Mechanics
October 2009 |
How to Make Biodiesel With a Commercial Kit With the professionally engineered biodiesel systems available today, the process is simpler, safer, takes less time and yields more consistent results. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2009 |
Students Build the Solar Homes of the Future The Solar Decathlon, in Washington, D.C. sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy this fall, will pit 20 teams of college students against each other in an international showdown of innovative engineering. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2009 |
How to Make Your Tools, Gadgets and Appliances Last Forever Old-school repair hobbyists and new-school garage hackers seem to agree that reanimating a machine or tool bound for the trash heap can yield outsize paybacks. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2009
Jim Gorman |
4 Future Classic Tools You Can Buy Now Tillers, pliers, tape measures, and Remington shotguns are classics. |
Popular Mechanics
September 24, 2009
Harry Sawyers |
8 Alternative DIY Woodworking Projects Reuse and recycle with these home woodworking ideas. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2009 |
How to Get Your Gadgets Off the Grid I recently decided to design and test a plan to keep our gadgetry humming once society collapses. |
Popular Mechanics
September 24, 2009
Chris Sweeney |
The 7 Best First Aid Kits For Any Situation For the home, on the go, and for your pets. |
Popular Mechanics
September 23, 2009
Seth Porges |
A Smarter Generator: Generac XG8000E Meters Power Using an emergency generator is both a balancing act and a guessing game: It's tempting to try to pull as many watts from the machine as possible, but plug in too many appliances and you'll trip the circuit breaker. |
Popular Mechanics
September 23, 2009
Harry Sawyers |
Toxic Shower-Head Hysteria: Reality Check Vincent LaBombardi, the director of microbiology at New York's Mount Sinai Medical Center says, "you shouldn't be ripping out the pipes over this." |
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