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A white doorbell with wires coming out of it, on plywood.
DIY

Build It: Hack your doorbell

By Dave Prochnow

Test Drive: Lamborghini Reventon
Technologie

Test Drive: Lamborghini Reventon

By William R. Snyder

Here come the Halloween hacks
DIY

Here come the Halloween hacks

By Abby Seiff

NASA’s New Target
Technologie

NASA’s New Target

By Dawn Stover

One person holding a TV remote while another person grabs it to try to take control.
DIY

Jam it: The TV remote control jamming circuit

By Dave Prochnow

Four laptops of varying sizes, plus two smaller devices, in a circle on a wooden floor.
DIY

5-Minute Project video: Parabolic cookware WiFi antenna

By John Mahoney

Two paper printed circuit board patterns.
DIY

pPCBs (paper printed circuit boards)

By Dave Prochnow

Kitchen-Counter Lab
Science

Kitchen-Counter Lab

By Anne Wootton and AbSeiff

Sputnik
Technologie

Fifty Years Later, Looking Back at the Dawn of the Space Race

By John Mahoney

A white RC Hummer with a fuel cell on top.
Technologie

Fast Cars – Cops = Big Fun

By Sean Captain

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Technologie

Technological Breakthrough or Alchemy?

By Gregory Mone

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Aviation

Aviation Adventurer Steve Fossett Reported Missing

By Popular Science Team

The Fastest Final Exam on Earth
Technologie

The Fastest Final Exam on Earth

By Mike Spinelli

A wiring diagram for an OnStar GPS hack.
DIY

Raising GPS from the dead

By Dave Prochnow

Five Labs That Make Going to Class the Best Part of College
Environment

Five Labs That Make Going to Class the Best Part of College

By Annalee Newitz

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Technologie

The Electric Shaver That Knocks You Out

By Gregory Mone

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Sicherheit

The Vomit-Inducing Flashlight

By Gregory Mone

The blue flame of a blowtorch heating up a block of quicklime.
DIY

Gray Matter: How to make a lamp out of lime

By Theodore Gray

Apple products copied
Technologie

China’s iClone

By Dan Koeppel

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Technologie

Science Porn on YouTube

By Gregory Mone

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Technologie

“Geckel”: Superglue From Geckos and Mussels

By Dawn Stover

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Technologie

Banning Skeletons in Chinese Games

By Gregory Mone

Autonomous Flying Ambulances Could Save Troops
Technologie

Autonomous Flying Ambulances Could Save Troops

By David Axe

A DIY solar-powered electronics charger.
DIY

The DIY solar charger

By Dave Prochnow

The interior parts of a DIY vertical wind turbine. Illustration.
DIY

Going with the wind

By Doug Cantor

Mod your keyboard, steampunk style
DIY

Mod your keyboard, steampunk style

By Doug Cantor

Shaun Baker in a jet-powered kayak on a river.
DIY

The jet kayak

By Gregory Mone

A small processor running Linux.
Computers

The $72 PC

By Dave Prochnow

Anatomy of a Solar Storm
Technologie

Anatomy of a Solar Storm

By Rena Marie Pacella

INVENTION AWARDS A Green Brick
Technologie

INVENTION AWARDS A Green Brick

By Lauren Aaronson

INVENTION AWARDS Six Strokes of Genius
Technologie

INVENTION AWARDS Six Strokes of Genius

By Dan Carney

How The New Velcro Works
Technologie

INVENTION AWARDS The New Velcro

By Gregory Mone

INVENTION AWARDS A Big Ball of Connectivity
Technologie

INVENTION AWARDS A Big Ball of Connectivity

By Tom Clynes

How the flying bet Works
Technologie

INVENTION AWARDS The Flying Belt

By Gregory Mone

How A New Breed of Mouse Works
Technologie

INVENTION AWARDS A New Breed of Mouse

By

How A Levitating Arrow Rest Works
Technologie

INVENTION AWARDS A Levitating Arrow Rest

By Melissa A. Calderone

The Future Then: Auto Edition
Technologie

The Future Then: Auto Edition

By AbSeiff

A dashboard-mounted computer in a car.
DIY

A DIY dashtop computer

By Damien Stolarz

Atari’s Lexus Test Drive: Xbox for Gen X
Technologie

Atari’s Lexus Test Drive: Xbox for Gen X

By Eric Adams

The 2007 New York International Auto Show
Technologie

The 2007 New York International Auto Show

By Eric Adams

How 2.0 Blog against a black background.
DIY

14 things geeks can teach the world

By John Mahoney

A homemade nuclear reactor.
DIY

Teen builds basement nuclear reactor

By Gregory Mone

Game on
DIY

Game on

By Mike Haney

A white corded phone and answering machine.
DIY

H.20 challenge: Save a lost message

By Mike Haney

Coasting to Safety
Technologie

Coasting to Safety

By Stephen Handelman

All Sonic, No Boom
Technologie

All Sonic, No Boom

By Eric Hagerman

DepthX: Mission 1 Accomplished
Robots

DepthX: Mission 1 Accomplished

By Megan Miller

The Future of Personal Security
Technologie

The Future of Personal Security

By Gregory Mone and Elizabeth Svoboda. Illustrations Graham Murdoch

Cop Tech 2010
Aviation

Cop Tech 2010

By Reinhard Kargl

Five drinking glasses filled with clear liquid on top and blue liquid on the bottom, linked together to create a gravity-cell battery.
DIY

Gray Matter: A tall glass of juice

By Theodore Gray

A DIY wall-mounted laptop.
DIY

The wall-mounted PC

By Popular Science Team

Martian equator
Technologie

Hijacking the Red Planet

By Will Snyder

Best of What’s New 2006
Best of What's New

Best of What’s New 2006

By

The 2007 North American International Auto Show
Technologie

The 2007 North American International Auto Show

By Eric Adams

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Technologie

Digging Under the Great Firewall of China

By Annalee Newitz

Semper Fly: Marines in Space
Military

Semper Fly: Marines in Space

By David Axe

A diagram showing how to build a touchless iPod remote.
DIY

The touchless iPod remote

By Dave Prochnow

A rocket-powered belt sander with a skull on it.
DIY

The craziest race

By Gregory Mone

Skyguard system taking out mortar rounds
Technologie

Missile-Proofing Runways

By Stephen Handelman

Long-Term Test: A Natural-Gas Guzzler
Hybrid Cars

Long-Term Test: A Natural-Gas Guzzler

By Eric Adams, Popular Science Team

Designer Trevor Harris
Technologie

Going Nowhere Fast

By Preston Lerner

The Invisible Warship
Military

The Invisible Warship

By Gregory Mone

grow-your-own treehouse
Technologie

Grow Your Second Home

By Gregory Mone

A diagram for making a cellphone "cantenna."
DIY

Make a cell ‘cantenna’

By Mike Outmesguine

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