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Popular Mechanics
July 2009 |
3D Laser Imaging Helps Restore a 19th-Century Firehouse Not your typical teardown. To reconstruct this landmarked building, the homeowner used 3D laser imaging that measures, to within 2 millimeters, where the original bricks should be placed.   |
Popular Mechanics
June 26, 2009
Mark Huber |
Air France 447: New Questions About Instruments, Composite Tail The flight computers and the crew may have been able to inadvertently fly the aircraft beyond its structural design limits, triggering an in-flight break-up. |
Wired
June 22, 2009
Damon Tabor |
Search and Rescue: Squad Leader Musters Robots to US Disaster Zones Robin Murphy heads the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue, where she commands an arsenal of unmanned craft that specialize in emergency response. |
Wired
June 22, 2009
Chris Hardwick |
Congratulations Human, You've Been Accepted to Singularity University Nine weeks of deep thought with eminent theorists and business leaders. |
Wired
June 22, 2009
Bob Parks |
Tool: Diamond Core Drill Punches Holes in Reinforced Concrete A diamond core drill might be the best device for draining a bank vault -- second only to, say, a credit default swap. |
Wired
June 22, 2009
Hugh Hart |
Quest for Fire: Look for Searing FX on the Next Harry Potter Movie studios spend billions to morph strings of code into giant robots, flying superheroes, and apocalyptic mushroom clouds. |
Wired
June 22, 2009
Cliff Kuang |
Packing It In: Why the Foam Noodle Couldn't Cut It in the Protection Racket Materials engineer Edgar Burchard has been watching packing materials fail for his entire career |
Popular Mechanics
June 19, 2009
Seth Porges |
The Top 6 Water Guns of All Time The first water guns began popping up in the late 1800s, and they were little more than glorified eyedroppers. |
Popular Mechanics
June 19, 2009
Seth Porges |
7 Questions for Super Soaker Inventor Lonnie Johnson How did the first Super Soaker come about? |
Popular Mechanics
July 2009
Erin McCarthy |
Robots That Dress Like Animals for Science To better understand animal behavior, scientists are dressing up data-gathering robots in animal garb. By fitting in with their wild, unsuspecting friends, robot bees, turkeys and lizards are recording intimate details |
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