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Extreme Engineering: A Floating City
A Floating City: Population 6,300 400 tons: Weight of soil and plants in the ship's park 500 tons: Water to fill world's largest at-sea swimming pool 724: Number of hollow 66-ton steel blocks that fit...
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Podcast: Extreme Engineering
The Tallest Skyscraper The centerpiece of Kuwait's entirely new City of Silk will be the Burj Mubarak skyscraper. Nick Kaloterakis In this episode of Cocktail Party Science, host Chuck Cage sits down...
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Power From The People
ROW YOUR CAR Charley Greenwood (right) and his son, Chuck, power-monkey the FM-4 HumanCar up to 40 mph on a hill near Cave Junction, Oregon. John B. Carnett Cave Junction, Oregon, was once, long ago,...
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The Moon Beetle
The Moon Beetle Blow it up to see what's on board the robotic prospector! David Wintergreen/Carnegie Mellon University Like most visitors to Hawaii, David Wettergreen spent his two-week trip there in...
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Hurricane Busters
Hurricane Fighting F-4 Graham Murdoch; F4 Phantom Jet Model: Infinite3DFX A Category 4 hurricane approaches New Orleans, yet "When the Saints Go Marching In" continues to spill out of clubs on Bourbon...
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Re-Print
Cheap Shot To refill a cartridge, punch a hole in the top, inject ink with a syringe, and seal it back up with a label (ink evaporates quickly). A resetter [orange] fools your printer into thinking...
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Ask A Geek
We-Track-You.com Dave Helfrey Yes, and there are lots of ways they can do it. Web pages are a flexible platform for exchanging information, but that also means it can be easy to track what you're...
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Popular Science Podcast: Power From the People
The Human Generator How far would you be willing to go to get off the grid? Blow it up! Kevin Hand Riding your bike to work? That's old school. Human powered transport options are expanding...
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Radio Reinvented
Zune Courtesy of Microsoft Many ordinary FM and AM stations transmit small amounts of digital data, such as song titles. And nearly 1,800 channels are entirely digital. Radio manufacturers are...
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Humanitarian Tech
AdSpecs U.S. Department of Defense/Joshua Silver Elastic Eyesight: For the 314 million people around the world with blurry vision, just put on a pair of Joshua Silver's AdSpecs and inject...
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Name:Oasis of the SeasWhere: Florida Cost: $1.2 billion Estimated Completion: This year The Challenge: Build an 18-story-tall superliner with more outdoor space When the Oasis of the Seas sets sail...
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In this episode of Cocktail Party Science, host Chuck Cage sits down with Popular Science writer Rena Pacella, author of Extreme Engineering and Executive Editor Mike Haney to get the inside scoop on...
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Cave Junction, Oregon, was once, long ago, the center of a gold rush boom that, like so many booms, ultimately consumed its host. Prospectors mined the land around the towns…
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Like most visitors to Hawaii, David Wettergreen spent his two-week trip there in the sand. But instead of sunbathing, he was busy putting Scarab, his robotic moon rover, through rigorous test drives...
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A Category 4 hurricane approaches New Orleans, yet “When the Saints Go Marching In” continues to spill out of clubs on Bourbon Street. No one’s worried, because two F4 Phantom fighter jets have just...
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I just replaced my inkjet printer, a model I’d bought less than two years ago—not because it broke or because I didn’t like the quality, but because it ran out of ink. Sound absurd? I paid $40 for the...
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Yes, and there are lots of ways they can do it. Web pages are a flexible platform for exchanging information, but that also means it can be easy to track what you're looking at on them. The first...
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Riding your bike to work? That's old school. Human powered transport options are expanding dramatically! In this episode of Cocktail Party Science, host Chuck Cage sits down with Bruce Grierson,...
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Many ordinary FM and AM stations transmit small amounts of digital data, such as song titles. And nearly 1,800 channels are entirely digital. Radio manufacturers are starting to take advantage of this...
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Elastic Eyesight: For the 314 million people around the world with blurry vision, just put on a pair of Joshua Silver's AdSpecs and inject light-bending silicon oil into the plastic lenses until the...
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