Alcan Traveler - Camping Trailer
Ernest HancockPulled behind motorcycles (and cars) this high quality camping model sold retail for $3500 in 1988. The cargo model was about $800.
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Testing the Best: Driving Fast in the Ferrari 458 Italia
• John Mahoney via PopSci.comIn reviews of Gran Turismo 5, the long-anticipated PS3 version of the ultra-realistic driving sim, critics pointed out the difficulty of distinguishing screen grabs from the game with actual photos of real-life cars.
Domino's app uses GPS to deliver anywhere
• Terrence AymDomino's Pizza has racked up another innovation in the fine art of delivering pizza fresh, hot and fast. Now the corporate marketing tactic of fast delivery is easier to achieve than ever thanks to a new iPhone app the ubiquitous pizzeria company ha
Revealed: The device Edison invented to talk with ghosts
• Terrence AymEdison's strange "psycho-phone" is a curious device with an even curiouser history. Said to be the culmination of the inventor's research into the other world--or life after death--the device allegedly gave the user access to the dead. Supposedl
In New Study, MRI Scans First Provide Way To Diagnose Autism with Near Perfect Accuracy
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comAutism disorders affect one in 110 children in the U.S.--or perhaps more--but the method of diagnosing the condition, which is characterized by difficulties socializing and communicating, among other behavioral and emotional problems.
Air Force Unveils Fastest Defense Supercomputer, Made of 1,760 PlayStation 3s
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comThe holidays may be driving console sales, but so is the military. The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has strung together 1,760 PlayStation 3 gaming systems calling itthe fastest interactive computer system in the entire DoD
Scientists Trick Cells Into Switching Identities
• MALCOLM RITTER via The Huffington PostScientists are reporting early success at transforming one kind of specialized cell into another, a feat of biological alchemy that doctors may someday perform inside a patient's body to restore health.
Toyota Plans a Hybrid Strategy
• Kevin Bullis via TechnolgyReview.comAs Nissan and GM prepare to ship flagship electric vehicles, Toyota is taking another road.
The Mobile Device Is Becoming Humankind's Primary Tool (Infographics Feature)
• Evan I. Schwartz via TechnologyReview.comPeople everywhere are consuming more and more wireless bandwidth to manage a wider variety of tasks. Evidence shows that the mobile phone is becoming indispensable to us.
Ultrasound Gets More Portable
• Sandra Swanson via TechnologyReview.comA new handheld ultrasound device could be the first that can connect directly to cell-phone and Wi-Fi networks.
New Onboard Converter Technology Harvests Auto Engine Exhaust to Generate Electricity
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.comFuture cars may eat their own exhaust, converting heat from their emissions into electricity. The conversion can improve fuel economy by reducing an engine’s workload.
Testing the Best: The Kindle's E Ink Pearl Display
• Dan Nosowitz via PopSci.comIn which one writer defends the (fantastic) Kindle from the assaults of another
Helmet Visor Could Protect Troops From Shock Waves
• Rachel Ehrenberg, Science News via WIRED.comAdding a face shield to the standard-issue helmet worn by U.S. troops could help protect soldiers from traumatic brain injury, the signature wound of the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Neato Robotics XV-11 Robotic Vacuum Cleaner
• PopSci.comUnlike the better-known Roomba, which cleans at random, bouncing off furniture and redirecting itself, the Neato XV-11 vacuums strategically.
Hacking Microsoft's Kinect: Two Weeks In, Six Amazing Projects
• Dan Nosowitz via PopSci.comThe most futuristic device you can have in your living room...hacked
Testing the Goods: The New MacBook Airs
• John Mahoney and Mike Haney via PopSci.comAfter a week with Apple's new diminutive portables, here's everything you need to know
Best of What's New 2010: Our 100 Innovations of the Year
• Mark Jannot via PopSci.comIt’s one of the most enjoyable parts of my job: the moment in mid-October when a binder is dropped on my desk containing each page of our December Best of What’s New issue slotted sequentially into place.
Video: Incredibly Precise Robot Bowler Gets Beaten by Professional Human Bowler
• Dan Nosowitz via PopSci.comThis robot bowler, cheekily named EARL, is capable of laying down the exact same, utterly perfect shot every time. Yet it still lost to professional human bowler Chris Barnes. How did this happen?
New Nanospheres are the Stiffest Biological Materials Ever Created, Surpassing Kevlar
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comProtein tougher than metal could be used to print out body armor
Video: Virgin Galactic, Plus Special Guest, Dedicates Spaceport America and its Two-Mile Runway
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comVideo of the event, which sawhe christening of the facility’s nearly two-mile long runway and as well as a flyover and landing by the Virgin space vehicle duo, surfaced Saturday we can join on Sir Richard Branson’s fun.
Windows Phone 7 Review: Once More, With Feeling
• John Mahoney via PopSci.comWe've been using the HTC Surround, one of the first class of phones to launch running Microsoft's fully revamped mobile OS. Is it good enough to forgive years of Windows Mobile misery?
Geek Chic: Hyper-Engineered ‘DARPA Hoodie’ Makes Defense Tech Fashionable
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comThe ‘DARPA hoodie,’ a strangely-designed patchwork garment accented with the occasional red zipper, is made of 12 interlocking pieces of rip-resistant nylon that sew perfectly together into a hoodie with zero waste.
Dutch McDonald's Tracks Burglars by Spraying Them With Synthetic DNA Mist
• Dan Nosowitz via PopSci.comYou know those lizards that spray blood from their eyes as a defense mechanism? This Dutch McDonald's is pretty much like that, only replace "blood" with "synthetic DNA visible under ultraviolet light."
Gallery: The Goods, October 2010
• PopSci.comCheck out this month's most innovative chainsaws, cameras, gadgets, toys and more
A Real Space Hopper for Mars
• Brittany Sauser via Technology ReviewThe rocket-propelled vehicle would explore planets more efficiently than wheeled rovers.
Google tests cars that drive themselves, in traffic
• Agence France-Presse via The Raw StoryAn electronic brain devised by US Internet titan Google has driven cars nearly a quarter of a million kilometers in California, on a quest for the next great revolution in the auto industry.
Video: Water Droplet Bounces Off a Superhydrophobic Nanotube Array
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comHydrophobic materials have all kinds of practical applications, from creating surfaces that never have to be cleaned to making supertankers and container ships glide more efficiently through the water.
Clearing the Way for Cheap, Flexible Solar Panels
• Ucilia Wang via Technology REviewFor years solar companies have wanted to make lightweight, flexible panels that are cheap to ship and easy to install (by unrolling them over large areas). But they've been held up by a lack of good and affordable glass substitutes.
Eurocopter Launches X3 Propeller-Powered High-Speed Helicopter, Hopes to Outrace Sikorsky's X2
• Lizzie Schiffman via PopSci.comLess than two weeks after Sikorsky's X2 dual-rotor helicopter smashed the rotorcraft speed record, going 250 knots, European group Eurocopter announced a revolutionary high-speed winged helicopter.
Video: I Float in Zero Gravity
• Paul Adams via PopSci.comFor an hour and a half or so earlier this month, 30 teachers from Ohio middle schools weighed nothing at all. The same went for me; for TV personality "Science Bob" Pflugfelder; and for 2,016 optic-orange ping-pong balls.
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