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IFTTT Launches, Letting Normal People Program “If This, Then That” Tools

IFTTT Launches, Letting Normal People Program “If This, Then That” Tools

By Dan Nosowitz

Ask a Geek: Should I Fully Drain My Laptop Battery Before Recharging It?

Ask a Geek: Should I Fully Drain My Laptop Battery Before Recharging It?

By Gordon Mah Ung

Archive Gallery: The Weirdest Ways to Get a Tan

Archive Gallery: The Weirdest Ways to Get a Tan

Gray Matter: Easy DIY Gunpowder

Gray Matter: Easy DIY Gunpowder

By Theodore Gray

Make Your Own DIY Drive-In

Make Your Own DIY Drive-In

You Built What?! A Homemade Scanning Electron Microscope

You Built What?! A Homemade Scanning Electron Microscope

By Gregory Mone

Gray Matter: Fire In The Hole

Gray Matter: Fire In The Hole

By Theodore Gray

Your Set-Top Box Is Murdering Your Electric Bill. Here’s What You Can Do

Your Set-Top Box Is Murdering Your Electric Bill. Here’s What You Can Do

By Dan Nosowitz

How to Build a Sweet-Sounding Tube-Amp iPod Dock

How to Build a Sweet-Sounding Tube-Amp iPod Dock

By Vin Marshall

You Built What?! A Colossal Flying Reproduction of a 1935 Airship

You Built What?! A Colossal Flying Reproduction of a 1935 Airship

By Gregory Mone

iPhone Controlled Cannon Tosses Beer From the Fridge

iPhone Controlled Cannon Tosses Beer From the Fridge

By as told to Amanda Schupak, Ryan Rusnak

2011 Invention Awards: From Waste To Water

2011 Invention Awards: From Waste To Water

2011 Invention Awards: A Portable Motorized Body Board

2011 Invention Awards: A Portable Motorized Body Board

2011 Invention Awards: A Crime-Fighting Armored Glove

2011 Invention Awards: A Crime-Fighting Armored Glove

By Brooke Borel

2011 Invention Awards: A Pen To Screen for Disease

2011 Invention Awards: A Pen To Screen for Disease

2011 Invention Awards: A Mirror That Monitors Vital Signs

2011 Invention Awards: A Mirror That Monitors Vital Signs

By Gregory Mone

2011 Invention Awards: A Landing Pad For Skiers

2011 Invention Awards: A Landing Pad For Skiers

By Ryan Bradley

2011 Invention Awards: A Better Mechanical Hand

2011 Invention Awards: A Better Mechanical Hand

By Lauren Aaronson

2011 Invention Awards: Sniffing Out Bedbugs

2011 Invention Awards: Sniffing Out Bedbugs

By Brooke Borel

Citizens in Flood Zone Build Homemade Levees to Protect Their Homes

Citizens in Flood Zone Build Homemade Levees to Protect Their Homes

Hackintosh Diaries, Part Two: Choosing and Assembling Your Hardware

Hackintosh Diaries, Part Two: Choosing and Assembling Your Hardware

By John Mahoney

Hackintosh Diaries, Part One: It’s Never Been Easier to Build a Hackintosh

Hackintosh Diaries, Part One: It’s Never Been Easier to Build a Hackintosh

By John Mahoney

Video: They Sure Don’t Make Pyrex Like They Used To

Video: They Sure Don’t Make Pyrex Like They Used To

By Theodore Gray

The History of the Teardown: The Need to See Our Gear Undressed

The History of the Teardown: The Need to See Our Gear Undressed

By Dan Nosowitz

Gray Matter: A Foil Boat Floating On An Invisible Sea

Gray Matter: A Foil Boat Floating On An Invisible Sea

By Theodore Gray

Vise Cakes: Making a Grain Puffer on the Cheap

Vise Cakes: Making a Grain Puffer on the Cheap

By Christopher Martin, Micah Donovan, Nobu Adilman

A Disc-Cutter-Powered Drag Racer That Hits Nearly 50 MPH

A Disc-Cutter-Powered Drag Racer That Hits Nearly 50 MPH

By Gregory Mone

You Built What?! A Truck-Sized, Street-Legal Radio Flyer Wagon

You Built What?! A Truck-Sized, Street-Legal Radio Flyer Wagon

By Gregory Mone

You Built What?! A Supersize Robotic Chess Set

You Built What?! A Supersize Robotic Chess Set

By Gregory Mone

An iPhone-Controlled LED Suit Tears Up The Dance Floor

An iPhone-Controlled LED Suit Tears Up The Dance Floor

By Gregory Mone

Urbee Is the First Car Made By a 3-D Printer

Urbee Is the First Car Made By a 3-D Printer

Gray Matter: In Which I Set Myself On Fire

Gray Matter: In Which I Set Myself On Fire

By Theodore Gray

Video: DIY Coilgun Turns Voltage into Kilojoule Projectile Power

Video: DIY Coilgun Turns Voltage into Kilojoule Projectile Power

A Husband and Wife Build a 19th-Century Wooden Submarine

A Husband and Wife Build a 19th-Century Wooden Submarine

By Gregory Mone

The Goods: September 2010’s Hottest Gadgets

The Goods: September 2010’s Hottest Gadgets

By Corinne Iozzio

Gray Matter: In Which I Fully Submerge My Hand in Liquid Nitrogen [Video]

Gray Matter: In Which I Fully Submerge My Hand in Liquid Nitrogen [Video]

By Theodore Gray

Gray Matter: How to Start a Fire With Only Compressed Air

Gray Matter: How to Start a Fire With Only Compressed Air

By PopSci Editors

How it Works: The Artillery-Grade 600 MPH Pumpkin Cannon

How it Works: The Artillery-Grade 600 MPH Pumpkin Cannon

By Amanda Schupak

Build a Pro-Level Parts Washer for $75

Build a Pro-Level Parts Washer for $75

By Vin Marshall

How to Build My Newest Air Cannon

How to Build My Newest Air Cannon

By Vin Marshall

Software Shootout: Cheap CAD Apps for DIYers

Software Shootout: Cheap CAD Apps for DIYers

By Vin Marshall

The Shocking Truth: How To Make High-Voltage Sparks

The Shocking Truth: How To Make High-Voltage Sparks

By Vin Marshall

Sponsored Post: Stanley’s New Twists On The Basics

Sponsored Post: Stanley’s New Twists On The Basics

By PopSci Editors

Get Medieval: How to Build a Metal Forge

Get Medieval: How to Build a Metal Forge

By Vin Marshall

Vernier calipers on a light wooden surface.

Tool School: How to get the most precise measurements

By Vin Marshall

Obscure Gear: What the heck is a Variac?

Obscure Gear: What the heck is a Variac?

By Vin Marshall

The Dissection: A Home Electric Meter

The Dissection: A Home Electric Meter

By Vin Marshall

Ferrofluid forming a pile of conical shapes.

How to make ferrofluid

An R2-D2 cooler in the corner of a carpeted room, with video game controllers organized in front of it.

Now this is the droid we’re looking for

By Popular Science Team

Home-Brewing Biochar in Brooklyn

Home-Brewing Biochar in Brooklyn

By Brooke Borel

An old man in a gray suit using a rappelling device to descend from a tall office building.

The 2009 Invention Awards

By Popular Science Team

A lamp made out of a mold from a plastic bottle, based on a 1961 article in Popular Science magazine.

Bright Idea: The plastic bottle lamp

By Joel Barnard

A homemade robot at the 2009 FIRST Robotics Competition in New York City.

Robotic adventures at the FIRST competition

By Paul Gleason

An iPhone with app icons visible.

How to make an iPhone app: part 2

By Dave Prochnow

A person holding a white iPod.

New music from an old iPod

By Laura Silver

A man in blue Popular Science coveralls holding a dumbbell made out of old CDs, pointing at the camera, and yelling.

PopSci 5-Minute Project video: CD dumbbell

By Popular Science Team

Three thin rectangular cork-plugged bottles in a row, the left one nearly full of red vinegar, the middle one half full of yellow vinegar, and the right one about a quarter full of orange vinegar.

Making vinegar at home

By Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot

A packet of freeze-dried ice cream with a photo of an astronaut on the packaging.

If it’s good enough for astronauts, it’s good enough for us

By Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot

Pectin: not just for jelly

Pectin: not just for jelly

By Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot

A DIY pocket theremin.

Build a pocket theremin on the cheap

By Dave Prochnow

A monkey mask on the ground next to a skinned robotic monkey head.

Scare tactics

By Theodore Gray and Paul Wallich

A person wearing white work gloves striking a match on a light brown surface against a blue background.

Making a perfect match

By Theodore Gray

A person purifying silicon in a glass bowl. Top: burning magnesium in a mushroom cloud of white smoke; middle top: burning hydrogen as a flame; middle bottom: burning silane gas as white bursts; bottom: falling silicon particles.

Making silicon from sand

By Theodore Gray

Car H2.0, Where Are You?