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Talk To The Hand: A New Interface For Bionic Limbs
Bionic Limbs With Artificial Nerves Rajeev Doshi The Six Million Dollar Man's robotic arm worked as seamlessly as his natural one. But in the real world, robotic limbs have limited motions and the...
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Climate Scientist Digs Up Data By Literally Mining The News
Paper Chase By sampling data from newspaper clippings as if they were ice cores, scientists are learning more about how our atmosphere has changed alongside our technology. Vasily Fedos Enko/Reuters;...
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The Goods: March 2011's Hottest Gadgets
Twist Off You can clean the Alex water bottle without a special scrubber. The stainless steel canister disassembles along a twist-open seam near its midpoint to clean or allow you to attach a larger...
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The Goods: March 2011
Dek A dozen great ideas in gear ArrayThe iTwin dongle shares docs between any two PCs connected to the Web. With one half plugged into your home computer, its drive becomes a secure network folder....
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Golf Club Tweaks Your Shot Three Ways
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Our Body the Ecosystem: Understanding the Interplay Between Man and Microbe
The Whole Body Hospitals are already swabbing people's noses to screen for drug-resistant bacteria. "You get results in less than an hour," Serge says. Howard Schatz When Jake Harvey visits the...
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Dinner To Go: A Nitrous-Injected Dining Table
Raise The Roof Using hydraulics, the table lifts off the frame so the driver can climb into the seat. Jonathan Worth Why would a man construct a dining-room table that can cruise down a racetrack at...
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Gray Matter: A Foil Boat Floating On An Invisible Sea
Floating On Air Mike Walker On July 2, 2007, Scott Showalter climbed into a manure pit on his Virginia farm to clear a blocked pipe. Moments later, he fainted and died. An employee of his went in to...
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After Earth: Why, Where, How, and When We Might Leave Our Home Planet
Crowd Control Although a "generation ship" may be home to just tens of thousands of people at any given moment, millions of lives could unfold within its confines over time. Michael Zimmerman View...
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FYI: If I Fell Through Earth, What Would Happen In The Center?
Towards Earth's Core 20th Century Fox/Everett Collection Just getting to the center of the Earth and surviving is impossible. The Earth's core is about 9,000°F—as hot as the sun's surface—and would...
View ArticleThe Nissan Juke is Less a Family Hauler Than an Efficient City Car
The crossover SUV has reached a crossroads. Models like the Toyota RAV4 and Honda CR-V have grown so large and homogenized that they've become the new family SUV. Bite-sized…
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The Six Million Dollar Man’s robotic arm worked as seamlessly as his natural one. But in the real world, robotic limbs have limited motions and the user can’t feel what he or she is “touching.” a new...
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In 1896, Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius theorized that adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by burning coal would create a "greenhouse effect" and raise the planet's…
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Every month we search far and wide to bring you a dozen of the best new ideas in gear. These gadgets are the first, the best and the latest. Click here to see our favorite…
View ArticleGolf Club Tweaks Your Shot Three Ways
For decades, pro golfers have customized their clubs to help them straighten shots. TaylorMade's new R11 driver lets amateurs tweak their club in seconds and more accurately…
View ArticleOur Body the Ecosystem: Understanding the Interplay Between Man and Microbe
When Jake Harvey visits the clinical center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, he is usually dirty, itchy and wheezing—not the happiest state of…
View ArticleDinner To Go: A Nitrous-Injected Dining Table
Why would a man construct a dining-room table that can cruise down a racetrack at 130 miles an hour and shoot flames into the air? Sheer competitiveness. A record for the…
View ArticleGray Matter: A Foil Boat Floating On An Invisible Sea
On July 2, 2007, Scott Showalter climbed into a manure pit on his Virginia farm to clear a blocked pipe. Moments later, he fainted and died. An employee of his went in to…
View ArticleAfter Earth: Why, Where, How, and When We Might Leave Our Home Planet
Earth won’t always be fit for occupation. We know that in two billion years or so, an expanding sun will boil away our oceans, leaving our home in the universe…
View ArticleFYI: If I Fell Through Earth, What Would Happen In The Center?
Just getting to the center of the Earth and surviving is impossible. The Earth's core is about 9,000°F—as hot as the sun's surface—and would instantly roast anyone who…
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