Mike Haney

05.12.08
Use It Better

Beef Up a Little PC

Turn the dirt-cheap, hardcover-size Eee PC into a speedy beast that can run any program or OS
By Mike Haney Posted 05.08.2008 at 1:56 pm 1 Comment

If you want a super-light laptop, you have to pay for it, and you have to use Windows. That’s been the (frustrating) conventional wisdom—at least until late last year, when the Taiwanese company Asus rolled out the Eee PC (pronounced as though it were a single long “e”), a two-pound, seven-inch laptop starting at a mere $300. The tradeoff: It comes with just two to eight gigabytes of flash memory instead of a conventional, larger hard drive, and a simplified Linux operating system that essentially is usable only for e-mail, Web browsing and typing.

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Cocktail Party Science: Inside the Iron Man

The writers and editors of PopSci discuss the reality of exoskeletons
By Posted 04.25.2008 at 3:53 pm 1 Comment

In our latest episode of Cocktail Party Science, host Chuck Cage and executive editor Mike Haney sit down with Greg Mone, author of May's "Building The Real Iron Man" to learn about the true-life exoskeletons of tomorrow and how they compare to the stuff of science fiction.

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Cocktail Party Science: How it Works

In the fifth episode, we delve even further inside today's cutting-edge tech
By Posted 03.24.2008 at 4:08 pm 5 Comments

Rip open a Pleo, get the run down on hybrids, and learn about the military's futuristic flying laser gun as Chuck Cage and the editors of PopSci take a behind-the-scenes tour of the third annual How it Works issue. Learn the stories behind the stories of some of the world's most sophisticated machines.

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Cocktail Party Science: The Anonymity Experiment

Mix some drinks and listen in as PopSci’s editors discuss privacy rights, space kimchi and more
By Posted 03.03.2008 at 5:15 pm 0 Comments

Cocktail Shaker:

In our second episode of Cocktail Party Science, host Chuck Cage, executive editor Mike Haney and Web editor Megan Miller sit down with Catherine Price, author of "The Anonymity Experiment." Find out how to keep your online activity hidden, what the spy bill means for our civil rights, and whether its possible to truly "disappear."

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5-Minute Project: LED Candles

Executive editor Mike Haney demonstrates how to make a handy little light from a battery, a bulb, and a resistor
By Mike Haney Posted 01.23.2008 at 4:50 am 3 Comments

Ah, the alluring glow of the LED light. Whether you're looking to create a bit of romantic (albeit extremely geeky) ambiance, or you just want to have some extra emergency lighting around the house, a set of mini LED candles is a great thing to have. They also happen to be quick, easy, and cheap to make yourself. In this video, executive editor Mike Haney demonstrates how to do it.

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