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Popular Mechanics
November 3, 2009
Chris Sweeney |
The World's 18 Strangest Bridges: Gallery Unique innovations are found all over the world in local bridge designs.   |
HHMI Bulletin
November 2009
Terrence Sejnowski |
Robotic Learning We're on the verge of an era where inexpensive robotic teaching machines can augment classroom learning. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2009
Mark Wolverton |
How to Use a Cyclotron Particle Accelerator to Fight Cancer To target cancer cells alone, the University of Pennsylvania is opening a next-generation treatment facility that uses high-energy proton beams to deliver pinpoint strikes. |
Popular Mechanics
October 30, 2009
Jeremy Jacquot |
7 Saber-Dueling, Phaser-Blasting Hollywood Laser Myths These sci-fi scenes may look cool on film, but real science tells a different story. |
Popular Mechanics
October 29, 2009
Jeff Wise |
Engineers Cite Vibrations, Wind in Bay Bridge Failure Engineers working on San Francisco's ill-starred Bay Bridge have fingered a culprit in the repair job that went awry Tuesday evening |
Popular Mechanics
November 2009
Jay Leno |
Jay Leno Builds a Turbine-Powered Biodiesel Supecar I sat down with Steve Anderson and Frank Saucedo from General Motors' Advanced Design Studios and told them what I had in mind. |
Popular Mechanics
October 23, 2009
Tyghe Trimble |
Wave Power Desalination Plant Coming Soon to Texas With seawater filtered with energy from wave power filling corn-based plastic bottles, I have as close as you can get to environmentally friendly bottled water. |
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
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
Chris Sweeney |
10 Scarecrows for the 21st-Century Farmer Today, farmers turn to high-tech devices equipped with motion sensors and water cannons to keep pesky birds from pillaging their land. |
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. |
National Defense
November 2009
Grace V. Jean |
In the Eye of the Beholder: Contact Lenses as Displays and Sensors Scientists believe that the little plastic discs that hundreds of millions of people rely on to see clearer may one day serve military personnel and medical patients as information displays and health monitoring devices. |
National Defense
November 2009
Austin Wright |
Smart Vests Take Pressure Off Troops Technology is now being developed that may allow troops to better distribute their loads so they're more comfortable. |
Popular Mechanics
October 15, 2009
Joe Hasler |
X2 Helicopter Gurus Pay Homage to Engineering Inspirations The team that designed the world's fastest helicopter explain how they got into the biz. |
Fast Company
November 2009
Heath & Heath |
A Problem-Solver's Guide to Copycatting Problems that are difficult in one domain may be trivial to solve from the perspective of a different domain. We should stop looking for experts and start looking for analogues. It's a big world: Chances are someone has solved your problem. |
National Defense
November 2009
Stew Magnuson |
Debate Over Rules, Legality of Robots On The Battlefield Lagging, Experts Say As researchers push ahead with algorithms designed to give robots more autonomy, ethicists and legal minds warn that not enough thought is being given to the implications of using unmanned systems to apply lethal force. |
National Defense
November 2009
Grace V. Jean |
Robotic Humvees Resupply Troops Downrange The Defense Department is pushing hard for the development of fully autonomous robots that can replenish supplies, evacuate casualties and even search for explosives. |
National Defense
November 2009
Austin Wright |
Machine That Predicts Terrorists' Intent Showing Progress Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST) can sense the fear in your eyes, skin, heartbeat and movements, and then will determine whether the signals are the result of hostile intent or just a bad day. |
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
November 2009
Meigs & Beilinson |
Exclusive Interview With Inventor and Innovator Dean Kamen Dean Kamen has transformed medical technology and amassed more than 440 patents. And in his spare time he is remaking American culture, one future engineer at a time. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2009 |
The Adventures of Inventor Dean Kamen: Timeline A timeline on the life of Dean Kamen, from when he hacked his parents house to his invention of the Segway and a cheap system for purifying water. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2009
Logan Ward |
10 Most Brilliant Innovators of 2009: X2 Coaxial Rotor Helicopter Innovation promises a brighter future. Here is a look at 10 of this year's brilliant innovators and their inventions. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2009 |
10 Most Brilliant Products of 2009 Honeywell Wind Turbine... Palm Pre... Quikrete Asphalt and Green Concrete... Hustler Zeon Electric Mower... Loggerhead Bionic Hydrant Wrench... etc. |
Popular Mechanics
October 6, 2009
Erin McCarthy |
MythBusters Q&A: New Season Filled With Bullets, MPG Tests and Duct Tape The new shows feature unusual science experiments. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2009
Alex Hutchinson |
Global Aspirations for a Solar-Electric Plane Swiss engineers have unveiled the prototype of an airplane they hope will become the first manned vehicle to fly around the world powered only by the sun. |
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 |
Robotic Surgeons Take Over at a Hospital Near You The tool-wielding wrists of the da Vinci can rotate 540 degrees and have seven degrees of freedom, making the tools of the mechanical surgeon more dexterous than instruments held in human fingers. |
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
September 25, 2009 |
7 Works of DIY Insanity at Gadgetoff '09 From the Regurgatron to the Ruben Tube, they are all a bit insane. |
Popular Mechanics
September 25, 2009
Seth Porges |
PM Takes the First Test Ride on a Jet-Powered Carousel (Video!) Brooklyn-based arts collective The Madagascar Institute had tested its home-built jet-powered merry-go-round -- but never with people on it. |
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. |
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