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Right after they invented the garage.
By Daniel Engber
Posted 04.02.2013 at 5:30 pm
Give your granny several states away the tech support she deserves—from a smartphone.
By Rick Broida
Posted 04.02.2013 at 4:43 pm
Stereo photogrammetry will tell engineers if a tree falls in the forest.
The "Do Not Call" list sucks. Winners of a Federal Trade Commission contest propose some high-tech strategies to finally stop automated sales calls.
China's biggest internet company attempts another ripoff.
DARPA's three-fingered artificial hand is great at grasping, but can't quite manipulate tools.
How do rogue states compete with a superpower? Photoshop, apparently.
The inside story of how an elite bomb squad dismantled the Unabomber's last deadly device
By Frank Vizard
Posted 04.01.2013 at 5:01 pm
This story originally appeared in the October 1998 issue of Popular Science.
Super-light, flapping-wing flight in any direction
Delivering mail with quadcopters may be silly, but the concept is being talked about for real.
How intelligent roads—not just cars—will change transportation.
By Justin McLachlan
Posted 04.01.2013 at 3:53 pm
How smarter appliances will simplify everyday life.
The winners of the Google Glass Explorer contest have been announced, and the lucky few get to do a beta run of Google's new gadget. Data shows what they had in common.