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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 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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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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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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