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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. |
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