September 2011: Better, Smarter, Faster

September 2011: Better, Smarter, Faster

Features

Extremely Mobile Devices

How Silicon Valley engineers are transforming cars into very smart, very fast information systems by Josh Dean

The Education Issue

So You Call This College?

Live on a volcano, destroy cars, build robots, and listen to distant galaxies in the most awesome labs on Earth By Andrew Rosenblum

First Steps of a Cyborg

Austin Whitney didn’t want to graduate from college in a wheelchair. So he and the student engineers at U.C. Berkeley’s “Kaz Lab” built a machine that allowed him to stand up and walk across the commencement stage By James Vlahos

High School Inventors, 2011 Edition

Ten students who are improving MRIs, cancer treatments and human-robot interaction--between classes, of course By Katherine Bagley

Reengineering the University

What's the best way to make scientists? By Matthew Yglesias

The Popular Science/Innocentive Education Challenge

We challenge you to invent new and better classes

What's New

• The Goods: September 2011's Hottest Gadgets
• A Camera With the Processing Power of a Computer
• Ford Revives the Three-Cylinder Engine in a Quest for Fuel Efficiency
• Five Gadgets to Make Your Dorm Room Outdo Any Rec Room
• A New Spin on Road Bike Frames Smooths Your Ride
• A Console-Controller Combo Gives Video Games New Depth

Headlines

• How a Pentagon Program and a Hacker Assisted a Revolution
• Space Boat: A Nautical Mission to an Alien Sea
• A Smarter Football Helmet Could Prevent Brain Damage
• Building, Launching, and Landing a Rover (All Before Going to College)
• Martin Jetpack Has a Record-Making Flight, Will Soon Be on Sale

How 2.0

• You Built What?! A Six-Foot-Long Camera That Captures Even More Enormous Shots
• Gray Matter: A Blast From My Past
• Make Your Own DIY Drive-In
• Ask a Geek: What's the Cheapest Way to Stay Connected Abroad?
• Adding a Touchscreen Interface to a DIY Project

FYI

• FYI: Can I Buy Land on the Moon?
• FYI: Can a Woman Really Lift a Car Off Her Pinned Child?

Megapixels

• Endangered Wild Horses Get a Health Check