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One Man’s Hand-Built Supercar
DIY

One Man’s Hand-Built Supercar

By Mike Spinelli

A white man with graying hair and a straw hat standing in a steaming hot tub on a prairie in front of a canvas painted with palm trees.
DIY

Gray Matter: The instant hot tub

By Theodore Gray

Wing Men
Air Force

Wing Men

By Tom Clynes

Racing the Nissan GT-R: In Any Other Car, You’d Be Dead Now
Technology

Racing the Nissan GT-R: In Any Other Car, You’d Be Dead Now

By Mike Spinelli

Video: The XOS Exoskeleton in Action
Robots

Video: The XOS Exoskeleton in Action

By Gregory Mone

Building the Real Iron Man
DARPA

Building the Real Iron Man

By Gregory Mone

AI

Mind Uploading and the Singularity

By Gregory Mone

A DIY pocket theremin.
DIY

Build a pocket theremin on the cheap

By Dave Prochnow

Gecko Tech
Animals

Gecko Tech

By Dan Smith

First Manned, Hydrogen-Powered Flight
Aviation

First Manned, Hydrogen-Powered Flight

By Gregory Mone

A Pass Key password-maker in a leather case on a person's belt.
DIY

Build a portable password generator

By Dave Prochnow

Using Phones In-Flight
Technology

Using Phones In-Flight

By Gregory Mone

Chips Can’t Get Much Smaller
Technology

Chips Can’t Get Much Smaller

By Matt Ransford

The Firefighting Robot
Robots

The Firefighting Robot

By Michael Dumiak

Glow Rug
Technology

Glow Rug

By Matt Ransford

A homemade Battlestar Galactica flight simulator.
Aviation

A better way to play Battlestar Galactica

By Chuck Cage

New Rides in New York
Technology

New Rides in New York

By Seth Fletcher and Sean Captain

An Arduino-powered LED photo cube.
DIY

Build it: a smart, ambient LED

By Dave Prochnow

Finding Weak Spots in Buildings, Bodies and Statues
Engineering

Finding Weak Spots in Buildings, Bodies and Statues

By Gregory Mone

Saving Dolphins With Sonar
Animals

Saving Dolphins With Sonar

By Matt Ransford

The Windows XP logo, the Windows logo, and the Ubuntu logo.
DIY

Mod your PC for triple boot: a PC for all seasons

By Dave Prochnow

2008 New York Auto Show
Technology

2008 New York Auto Show

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Blue Light Special For Tired Truckers
Technology

Blue Light Special For Tired Truckers

By Megan Miller

iTunes: Not Ready for Primetime
Technology

iTunes: Not Ready for Primetime

By Jon Chase

Tesla Roadster Electric Supercar Begins Production
Electric Vehicles

Tesla Roadster Electric Supercar Begins Production

By Michael Moyer

Your Burger on Biotech
Agriculture

Your Burger on Biotech

By Rena Marie Pacella

Some white wires connected to a microcontroller.
DIY

Mod it: the incredible two-headed AVR programmer

By Dave Prochnow

Test Drive: 2008 Mercedes C300 Sport Sedan
Technology

Test Drive: 2008 Mercedes C300 Sport Sedan

By Seth Fletcher

How It Works: The Flying Laser Cannon
Military

How It Works: The Flying Laser Cannon

By Eric Adams

How It Works: Tomorrow’s Hybrid
Hybrid Cars

How It Works: Tomorrow’s Hybrid

By Seth Fletcher

The Real-life Death Star
Technology

The Real-life Death Star

By Matt Ransford

A robot lion head mounted as a hunting trophy on a white wall.
DIY

Robot taxidermy

By Dave Prochnow

Darpa’s New Goal: A Plane That Flies for Five Years
DARPA

Darpa’s New Goal: A Plane That Flies for Five Years

By Seth Fletcher

What the Heck is Ricin?
Health

What the Heck is Ricin?

By Megan Miller

John Carnett riding his motorized homemade all-terrain skateboard along a sidewalk in Philadelphia.
DIY

A motorized skateboard for speed-happy gearheads

By Doug Cantor

Fake Dog, Real Benefits
Animals

Fake Dog, Real Benefits

By Gregory Mone

Tom Tlalim wearing all black and his W_space Wiimote suit, standing on a rooftop at dusk.
DIY

Dancing a song with the full-body Wiimote music controller suit

By Andrew E. Rosenblum

Wave Runner
Technology

Wave Runner

By John Geoghegan

Grand Engineering Challenges for the 21st Century
Energy

Grand Engineering Challenges for the 21st Century

By Michael Moyer

Warships of Tomorrow
Military

Warships of Tomorrow

By Christian DeBenedetti

Tornado Imagery Could Improve Storm Warnings
Environment

Tornado Imagery Could Improve Storm Warnings

By Gregory Mone

A hand holding an orange cordless screwdriver that's on top of a screw partially sunken into a sheet of plywood.
DIY

Make an instant-charge screwdriver

By Dave Prochnow

A homemade 5-volt power supply.
DIY

A rechargeable, pocket-sized 5-volt power supply

By Dave Prochnow

The Grouse: Social Network Failure
Internet

The Grouse: Social Network Failure

By Jon Chase

Military

Navy Tests 32-Megajoule Railgun

By Seth Fletcher

Bye-Bye Bandwidth
Technology

Bye-Bye Bandwidth

By Gregory Mone

Tech Startups Rock DEMO Conference
Technology

Tech Startups Rock DEMO Conference

By Sean Captain

A propane torch blowing gas onto a catalytic converter, heating the ceramic red-hot.
Climate Change

Gray Matter: Fire without flame

By Theodore Gray

Ralf Ottow stands outside at night, pointing a huge beam of light into the sky, with the moon in the background.
DIY

Handheld sunbeam

By Gregory Mone

Born to be Mild
Motorcycles

Born to be Mild

By Dan Carney

Green Skies at Mach 5
Concept Cars

Green Skies at Mach 5

By Michael Belfiore

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Energy

The Two Day Battery

By Gregory Mone

A white RC Hummer with a fuel cell on top.
DIY

How to make a fuel cell-powered RC car

By Dave Prochnow

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Technology

Nanotech Squeezes Bible onto a Pinhead

By Sean Captain

The Green Side of the Moon
Science

The Green Side of the Moon

By Gregory Mone

Scramjet
Military

The Hypersonic Age is Near

By Michael Belfiore

Technology

The Breakdown: Evel Knievel

By Gregory Mone

Holiday project: Dot-matrix LED ornament
DIY

Holiday project: Dot-matrix LED ornament

By Dave Prochnow

Best of What Was New
Best of What's New

Best of What Was New

By AbSeiff

A white doorbell with wires coming out of it, on plywood.
DIY

Build It: Hack your doorbell

By Dave Prochnow

Test Drive: Lamborghini Reventon
Technology

Test Drive: Lamborghini Reventon

By William R. Snyder

Here come the Halloween hacks
DIY

Here come the Halloween hacks

By Abby Seiff

NASA’s New Target
Technology

NASA’s New Target

By Dawn Stover

One person holding a TV remote while another person grabs it to try to take control.
DIY

Jam it: The TV remote control jamming circuit

By Dave Prochnow

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