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BMW Gets One Step Closer to Auto-pilot

BY Cliff Kuang
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Fri Jun 5, 2009 at 11:14 AM

When a driver is suddenly incapacitated--by a heart attack, for example--a new system brings the car to a safe stop at the side of the road.READ»

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The Worst Jobs in Science

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Tue Sep 16, 2003 at 2:22 PM

Popular Science is out with its list of the Worst Jobs in Science. The best of the worst? Flatus Odor Judge, Dysentery Stool-Sample Analyzer, and what's got to be the most frustrating job in America, Metric System Advocate.READ»

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Run for Your Life: The Pentagon's Robotic Hummingbird Takes Flight

BY Cliff Kuang
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Thu Jul 2, 2009 at 4:54 PM

Video of the latest flying contraption by DARPA, the Pentagon's hyper-strange research lab.READ»

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Magnetic Blood Cleaning Procedure Could Save Lives, Star-Trek Style

BY Kit Eaton
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Tue Jun 23, 2009 at 9:50 AM

Here's a medical innovation that's pretty amazing: It's a blood filter that could actually reduce deaths from sepsis in hospitals. The system works by removing dangerous bacteria not by using fine porous filtration, but instead the ...READ»

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Smart Football Helmet Monitors Body Temp, Saves Lives

BY Cliff Kuang
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Tue Jun 9, 2009 at 12:44 PM

Heat stroke kills players every year. But a new helmet gives coaches a novel sideline monitoring system.READ»

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Pop Sci Picks the Year's Best Garage Inventions

BY Cliff Kuang
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Wed May 20, 2009 at 9:57 AM

Popular Science just announced its picks for the 2009 Innvention Awards, which highlight work done on a low budget by tinkerers. It's an inspiring lot that addresses big problems---Look at the GenShock, a shock absorber for ...READ»

INNOVATION | 1 comment

Innovation: The Air Up There

BY Robert Buckman
Relevancy Score: 45
Wed Sep 26, 2007 at 10:35 PM

Decades ago, the airship was touted as the wave of the future in travel, with the Hindenburg zeppelin poised to be the proof of that prophecy. The largest airship ever built, the Hindenburg offered the height of luxury travel and was ...READ»

FUTUREOF | 2 comments

Can Science Possibly Be Cool?

BY Lynne d Johnson
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Tue Aug 11, 2009 at 6:37 PM

Last night in New York, at a TV launch party for Popular Science's "Future Of..." Debbie Myers, Science Channel general manager asked what was missing from science programming. The overall response, from the 50-plus room full of ...READ»

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NASA to Break Ground on Super-Green "Sustainability Base"

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 39
Thu Aug 6, 2009 at 11:20 AM

The new office will set a high bar for intelligent, self-monitoring building design.READ»

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Another Small Step for Man: Spaceport America Breaks Ground

BY Cliff Kuang
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Thu Jun 18, 2009 at 11:13 AM

Tomorrow, America's first port for leisure space flight begins construction, with Virgin Galactic as its anchor tenant.READ»

ARCHITECTURE | 4 comments

Vertical Farms, a Tower of B.S.

BY Cliff Kuang
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Thu Nov 5, 2009 at 12:05 PM

Urban farming might be ridiculous--but ridiculousness has its uses.READ»

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In Today's Blogs: Dell, Dissatisfied Workforce...

BY Lynne d Johnson
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Thu Aug 24, 2006 at 8:08 PM

What's worth reading: The Life of Batteries "Dell's recall of 4.1 million laptop batteries has renewed the discussion about the effectiveness of modern power sources." (Emerging Technology and Culture) Dell Bails From Portable MP3 ...READ»

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Microwaving Garbage into Gas

BY Francisco Dao
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Fri Jul 11, 2008 at 12:52 AM

With so many people jumping on the “green technology” bandwagon these days, it can be extremely difficult to separate the snake oil salesmen from the people developing real technology. So when I first heard about Frank Pringle ...READ»

INSECT POWER | 1 comment

Carnivorous LCD Clock Is Powered by Bugs

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Mon Jun 29, 2009 at 3:37 PM

For times when solar or grid power just won't do, consider this bug-powered LCD clock from U.K.-based designers James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau. The prototype clock contains a flypaper-equipped roller with a scraper at its base ...READ»

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Contributors

BY Fast Company Staff
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Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:23 AM

Alessandra Petlin When photographer Alessandra Petlin thought about shooting Adam Werbach for this issue's cover story, she says, "I immediately had this image in my mind of a soaring stand of smooth, beautiful trees, and the ...READ»

SOLAR POWER | 1 comment

Cheap, Plastic Solar LEDs Another Bright Idea for Rural Villages

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Tue Nov 3, 2009 at 6:10 PM

Access to on-demand lighting is a given for many of us, but some developing countries don't have the proper electrical grid set up to allow even a basic light bulb to turn on. Solar power is a popular way to address this problem, a ...READ»

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Digging Out

BY David Axe
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Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:16 AM

The idea of putting people to work was largely neglected after the invasion of Iraq. Now, as debate mounts over troop withdrawals, one strategy might help fill the void.READ»

ENTREPRENEURSHIP | Comment

Get Your Work to Go

BY Chris O'Malley
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Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:12 AM

How is the future of work like ordering take-out Chinese? For work to go, put your files online, leave your laptop behind, and wherever you land, dial in for your order. It's ready when you are. (But you'll have to work again in an hour.)READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION | 11 comments

Microsoft's Class Action

BY Elizabeth Svoboda
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Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:23 AM

Across the country, talent-hungry corporations are trying to save our struggling public schools. Are they creating smarter kids--or a fleet of drones?READ»

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