Install, configure, and boot Windows XP, Windows Vista and Ubuntu Linux on a single machine
By Dave Prochnow
Posted 03.19.2008 at 2:47 pm
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Lucky you; you just received a brand new shiny PC for your [fill in the occasion: birthday, anniversary, graduation, holiday]. Unfortunately, your new rig almost certainly came preinstalled with Windows Vista, and youve got a ton of legacy software that require an older 32-bit Windows OS for operation. Whats a poor Vista PC to do?
Meet PopSci's resident mad scientist Theodore Gray, master of concoctions and combustions
Posted 01.21.2008 at 1:00 am
Periodic Table: And be sure to check out Theodore Gray's one-of-a-kind periodic table at periodictable.com.
Each month,
Popular Science features one of Theodore Gray's DIY (if dangerous) experiments. See the whole list here.
2006
January
Making a Perfect Match
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The plugs inside your car fire a charge hot enough to wear away metal. Here´s how to re-create that process, only bigger
By Theodore Gray
Posted 05.01.2007 at 1:00 am
Make Your Own Sparks
Cost: $270
Time: 20
Minutes
Safe | | | | |
Crazy
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Power your stuff like it's 1899 by building your own liquid battery
By Theodore Gray
Posted 01.24.2007 at 2:00 am
Build a Battery
Cost: $20
Time: 3
Hours
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Crazy
- Pour copper sulfate (the blue granules) over a copper electrode in a glass.
Fill it with distilled water.
Add a crow's-foot-zinc electrode, and short-circuit the battery for 24 hours to kick-start the battery reaction.
Connect to the device of your choice. Yields one volt.
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With a small radio tag in your glove, you can control your music on the slopes with a simple swipe of your hand
By Dave Prochnow
Posted 12.11.2006 at 2:00 am
When you´re tearing downhill on your snowboard, it´s a little distracting to take off your glove and dig out your iPod just to, say, hit pause. Instead, build this simple radio-frequency ID system and control your iPod by waving your hand in front of your coat.
A tag sewn into your glove sends instructions to a reader stashed in your pocket.
Unwire Your iPodCost: $161Time: 6
HoursEasy | | | | |
Hard
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When dance fever hit MIT, students built a computer-controlled, LED-lit disco floor. Now you can, too
By Gregory Mone
Posted 11.27.2006 at 2:00 am
Cost: $5,000
Time: 1 Week
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Sodium + chlorine = your favorite popcorn condiment (and lots of smoke and fire!)
By Theodore Gray
Posted 10.03.2006 at 1:00 am
See the video at the bottom of the page for a behind-the-scenes look at PopSci's fiery photo shoot. For excerpts from the shoot, click here
Creating a Salt Cloud
Cost: $500
Time: 2
Hours
Safe | | | | |
Crazy
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Motion-triggered monster heads, a witches´ brew of liquid nitrogen, a projector rigged for fright, and more. Here, our favorite high-tech haunting tricks made easy
By Theodore Gray and Paul Wallich
Posted 09.26.2006 at 1:00 am
The Bubbling Cauldron
Want a real witches´ brew? Mix soap-bubble solution with dry ice, or use liquid nitrogen for bubbles that release fog when they pop. In the following video, PopSci´s contributing mad scientist, Theodore Gray, uses the help of a few young assistants to create cauldrons of toil and trouble.
Here´s how it´s done:
Mercury used to be lots of fun-before we knew that it could kill you. Here´s how several pounds of it made the first electric motor spin
By Theodore Gray
Posted 08.31.2006 at 1:00 am
There are great things to come in the future, jet cars and all that. But the past held a few wonders too-for example, jars of mercury available at the corner apothecary. Just 50 years ago, people treated the shiny
liquid metal like a toy. Sadly, I´ll never experience the strange sensation of sticking my entire arm into a barrel of mercury, as kids once did during factory tours. Today mercury is considered a horrific poison, so bad that schools are evacuated for
a broken thermometer.
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Skip the fancy ice-cream maker-all you need is a pillowcase and a fire extinguisher
By Theodore Gray
Posted 08.01.2006 at 1:00 am
Make CO2 Ice Cream
Cost: $150
Time: 15 Minutes
Safe | | | | |
Risky
For an illustrated photo how-to, launch the gallery.
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