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Spy Satellites That Spy On Satellites: First Photos
Technology

Spy Satellites That Spy On Satellites: First Photos

By Dawn Stover

The Turbo- and Supercharged Car
Hybrid Cars

The Turbo- and Supercharged Car

By Matthew Phenix

Notes from the 2005 Pop!Tech Conference, Camden, Maine
Technology

Notes from the 2005 Pop!Tech Conference, Camden, Maine

By Michael Moyer

ROCKET OF DOOM
Technology

Hot Rocket Planes From the X Prize Cup Showcase

By Michael Belfiore

Wobulation
Technology

Wobulation

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Live Reports from the 2005 Darpa Grand Challenge
Technology

Live Reports from the 2005 Darpa Grand Challenge

By Bjorn Carey and Elizabeth Svoboda

My Wagon Can Beat Your Porsche!
Technology

My Wagon Can Beat Your Porsche!

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PopSci’s Darpa Grand Challenge Preview: Update #3
DARPA

PopSci’s Darpa Grand Challenge Preview: Update #3

By Elizabeth Svoboda

DAD's Toyota Truck equipped with laser-based navigation
DARPA

PopSci’s Darpa Grand Challenge Preview: Update #2

By Elizabeth Svoboda

Darpa's blue team making tweaks to the Ghostrider
DARPA

PopSci’s Darpa Grand Challenge Preview

By Elizabeth Svoboda

Can Digital Photos Be Trusted?
Technology

Can Digital Photos Be Trusted?

By Steve Casimiro

Fish-Inspired Car
Concept Cars

Fish-Inspired Car

By Matthew Phenix

Will We Merge With Machines?
Technology

Will We Merge With Machines?

By Siri Steiner, with additional reporting Nicole Dyer, Jenny Everett and Martha Harbison

The Science of Stealth
Air Force

The Science of Stealth

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Air Force

Film Review: Stealth

By Eric Adams

DARPA

Trust Me–I’m a Robot

By Gregory Mone

GT Stands for “Goodbye Tires”
Technology

GT Stands for “Goodbye Tires”

By Joe Brown

A Chat with Indy 500 Winner Dan Wheldon
Technology

A Chat with Indy 500 Winner Dan Wheldon

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Exposing the Spy Sub of the Future
Technology

Exposing the Spy Sub of the Future

By Bill Sweetman

destructive impact of a nuclear "bunker buster" bomb
Military

Nuclear Bunker Busters: What’s the Damage?

By Spencer Robins

No Engine Required
Technology

No Engine Required

By Preston Lerner

A group of people with different skin colors putting sticky notes with words on them into the shape of a mouse pointer.
DIY

Ask a Geek: What is tagging?

By Merlin Mann

Inspiration: The Future on Four Wheels (More or Less)
Technology

Inspiration: The Future on Four Wheels (More or Less)

By Stephan Wilkinson

A person, John Ninomiya, suspended under a cluster of multi-colored balloons floating in front of a mountain range.
Aviation

Getting high on helium

By Jeff Wise

Graphite bullet molds and silver bullets that won't fire.
DIY

Calling Van Helsing

By Theodore Gray

Is this the future of air combat?
Air Force

Is this the future of air combat?

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Intergalactic Communications
NASA

Intergalactic Communications

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The Holographic Television
Technology

The Holographic Television

By Johnathan Keats

The Bionic Eye
Health

The Bionic Eye

By Michael Stroph

Robots

Vex Robotics Design System’s Inventor’s Guide

By Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute

Technology

Unconventional-weapons threat

By Laurie Goldman and Sander Goldman

A DIY WiFi antenna template.
DIY

Ask a Geek: What’s the best DIY antenna for extending my WiFi network?

By Scott Fullam

I Attended This Hacker Conference and All I Got Was All the Data on Your Hard Drive
Technology

I Attended This Hacker Conference and All I Got Was All the Data on Your Hard Drive

By Robin Mejia

factory machine
Technology

Birth of a Titan

By Bill Sweetman

Volvo Penta IPS
Technology

Volvo Penta IPS

By Gregory Mone

The pieces of an SNES portable, chopped up to run an Atari 2600. Diagram.
DIY

Handcrafted handhelds

By Mike Haney

Evergreen Machine
Technology

Evergreen Machine

By Joe Brown

A person opening a large photo album that's also a computer screen. Illustration.
DIY

Share your shots

By Mikkel Aaland

Military

Can Terrorists Build the Bomb?

By Michael Crowley

The Sidekick II.
DIY

Sidekick’s secret apps

By Phillip Torrone

Barnaby Wainfan
Technology

Barnaby Wainfan

By Jeff Wise

Jay Carter, Jr.
Technology

Jay Carter, Jr.

By Jeff Wise

George Bye
Aviation

George Bye

By Jeff Wise

Paul Moller
Technology

Paul Moller

By Jeff Wise

A movie theater marquee connected to a house with a film reel outside feeding through the house's second-story window.
DIY

Rent flicks on the couch

By Noah Robischon

The Car That Repairs Itself
Technology

The Car That Repairs Itself

By Mark Frauenfelder

A kite flying above a seaside cliff under cloudy skies.
DIY

Shoot from the sky

By Phillip Torrone

A jet-powered outhouse. Diagram.
DIY

The speeding outhouse

By Jeff Wise

Every Step You Take . . . Every Move You Make . . . My GPS Unit Will Be Watching You
Technology

Every Step You Take . . . Every Move You Make . . . My GPS Unit Will Be Watching You

By Michael Rosenwald

Segway’s Next Thingamajig
Technology

Segway’s Next Thingamajig

By Jenny Everett

The New Right Stuff
Technology

The New Right Stuff

By Eric Adams

The Quiet Demise of the Cuties and the Yo-Yos
Technology

The Quiet Demise of the Cuties and the Yo-Yos

By Stephan Wilkinson

Parts of an old computer placed inside a vintage radio. Diagram.
DIY

Building a vintage digital jukebox

By Scott Fullam

A short-haired man in a blue shirt putting a CD into a computer's disk drive. Illustration.
Computers

Is Linux ready for you?

By John R. Quain

Plastics in Automotive Markets: Vision and Technology Roadmap
Technology

Plastics in Automotive Markets: Vision and Technology Roadmap

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Speed: Formula None
Technology

Speed: Formula None

By Preston Lerner

BMW's Raymond Freymann posing in front of a painting of a traffic system
Technology

Intelligence: Behold the All-Seeing, Self-Parking, Safety-Enforcing, Networked Automobile

By Paul Horrell

Design: The Guru of Impossible Engineering Creates a Car
Engineering

Design: The Guru of Impossible Engineering Creates a Car

By Jessie Scanlon

The 350mph Supercar
Technology

The 350mph Supercar

By Eric Adams

Obsession: Mr. Singh’s Search for the Holy Grail
Technology

Obsession: Mr. Singh’s Search for the Holy Grail

By Charles Graeber

The Amazing Rusting Aluminum
Aviation

The Amazing Rusting Aluminum

By Theodore Gray

The Peltier-powered self-cooling coolie. Illustration.
DIY

The Peltier-powered self-cooling coolie

By Scott Fullam

A person removing the engine control unit, or ECU, from under the hood of a silver car.
DIY

Overclock your car

By Stephan Wilkinson

Upgrade Your Car’s A/V
Audio

Upgrade Your Car’s A/V

By Eric Adams

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