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PopSci Q&A: Joi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, Talks About Making...

Virtually There Ito Skypes in to Jannot's New York office from Boston. Dan Bracagalia Joi Ito was an early investor in some of the most influential and successful internet properties of the past...

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Cobham teleMAX EOD/NB

Cobham teleMAX EOD/NB Courtesy Cobham Hazmat robots, especially those that can test for more than just chemical threats, are large and clumsy. The Cobham teleMAX EOD/NBC robot is small enough to fit...

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NASA Dawn

NASA's Dawn Probe NASA In July, NASA's Dawn probe became the first spacecraft to orbit an object in the asteroid belt. Its target: Vesta, the second-most-massive asteroid in the solar system, a rock...

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Bombardier Global 8,000

Bombardier Global 8,000 Courtesy Bombardier Inc. With a range of 9,000 miles, roughly the distance from New York to Hong Kong, the Bombardier Global 8,000 flies farther than any other private...

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Astro Space Center RadioAstron

Astro Space Center RadioAstron Courtesy Astro Space The Russian space agency's RadioAstron satellite, launched in July, is the final piece of the biggest radio-telescope array ever assembled. The...

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SecuraSeal Sliding Patio Door

SecuraSeal Sliding Patio Door Courtesy SecuraSeal Anyone who has ever had a sliding patio door knows the drill: The lock latches at a single, easily jimmied point, so real security requires keeping a...

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Argo Med Tech/ReWalk

Argo Med Tech/ReWalk Courtesy Argo The ReWalk could help some of the five million wheelchair users worldwide plagued by lost bone mass and decreased blood flow by allowing them to walk, even up and...

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The One-Cent Solution

Scrappy George Whitesides and Una Ryan's fast and cheap diagnostic device could save millions of lives every year Webb Chappell Twenty years ago, the Pentagon asked George M. Whitesides, a chemist at...

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Best of What's New, 2011

The Zenith Towers Read more about the Zenith Towers here. Zenith View Photo GalleryWell, 2011 is almost over. And it's been a great year in science and tech, as our annual Best of What's New awards...

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Northrop Grumman X-47

Northrop Grumman X-47 Courtesy Northrop Grumman Today's "robot planes" are pilotless, not autonomous; a joystick-equipped human on the ground still does the flying. Northrop Grumman's X-47B will be...

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Announcing The 25th Annual Best Of What's New Awards

Liquipel, a gadget waterproofing service, is one of 12 grand award winners Sam Kaplan Since we inaugurated these awards a quarter of a century ago, the pace of innovation has quickened with every...

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The Top 25 Innovations of the Last 25 Years

Burj Khalifa One of Popular Science's greatest innovations of the past 25 years View Photo GalleryEver since we inaugurated the Best of What's New (BOWN) awards 25 years ago, the bar we as editors set...

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Grand Award Winner: The Sand Flea

The Sand Flea A reconnaissance robot for all of your building-leaping needs. Boston Dynamics Reconnaissance robots have typically required elaborate engineering to overcome the challenges of urban...

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10 Of The Greatest Aerospace Innovations Of 2012

The Pilotless Cargo Chopper Courtesy Lockheed Martin View Photo GalleryFrom pilotless cargo copters to air pressure suits that can fly from the edge of space, these innovations represent the year's...

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The 2013 Best Of What's New

Sandia National Laboratories Fiber Optic Network Each year, the editors of Popular Science search all corners of the material world—cars, skyscrapers, drones, phones—to find the 100 innovations that...

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December 2014: The 100 Greatest Innovations Of The Year

Letter From The EditorA Vision Of TomorrowNextA Blast To Better Predict DisasterClimate Control On Your WristCan Fist Bumps Halt Hospital Infections?Suspended Animation Gets RealHow Habitable Is That...

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The Editor's Letter From The December 2014 Issue Of Popular Science

A Vision Of Tomorrow Marius Bugge Every June, the editors at Popular Science gather for the first Best of What’s New meeting. BOWN, as we affectionately call it, has run as our December cover story...

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This Week In Numbers: Comet Landings, Peanut Butter Diamonds, And The Best Of...

BOWN Popular Science 100: number of innovative products and technologies featured in our 27th annual edition of the Best Of What’s New. From invisible duct tape to super-dexterous bionic arms, we...

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Archive Gallery: The Best of What Was New

Considering I was between the ages of -2 and 8 for the first 10 installments of the Best of What's New, it's remarkable how many vivid memories I have of the 1980s' and '90s'…

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