Technology: Reviews

January 29, 2007

Windows Vista: Should You Switch?

After much delay and fanfare, Microsoft has finally released Vista. We’ve played with beta incarnations for months, watching it evolve from a glitchy mess into a relatively polished product. But now t...
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December 20, 2006

Your Own Digital DJ: Next-Gen Internet Radio Reviews

Internet radio services have evolved, with streaming music channels offering more audio diversity than your iTunes library could dream of. We rate three of the top competitors.
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October 4, 2006

Maxtor Fusion

The Maxtor Fusion isn't the simplest concept to explain: it's a combined hard drive and media server, providing you with 500GB (or more, if you connect additional hard drives) of network-attached stor...
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August 23, 2006

eNook: The Folding Desk

It's less like a piece of furniture and more like a piece of hardware. For starters, all the wood found in the desk is in the form of laminate. Furthermore, most of the desk is made of painted aluminu...
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August 7, 2006

All Tomorrow's Party Lightbulbs

This isn’t the LED lightbulb that’s going to put incandescents and halogens out of business, but the LED Party Bulb from Philips ($4.99 each, available later this month) is an unassuming harbinger. It...
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June 22, 2006

Shaving Grace: The Norelco Bodygroom

The Bodygroom electric razor is already the butt (puns are inevitable when talking about this device) of potty-mouth jokes from all manner of Web and print journalists. And yet, it's a good idea: a ra...
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May 14, 2006

Going to Bootcamp

When Apple announced it was going to use Intel chips—instead of the old Motorola PowerPC chips—in all its new computers, I didn’t pay much attention. I’m a custom PC builder, and a chronic Mac skeptic...
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April 21, 2006

Ultimate Ears super.fi 5Pro

Ultimate Ears super.fi 5Pro is a top in-the-ear headphone set – to get better sound you’d need a custom molded set. I hear new details in familiar music and movies. After using these there’s no going ...
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April 15, 2006

On the Front Lines: Ghost Recon 3

For fans of tactical first person shooters, especially the Ghost Recon series, GRAW is as good as it gets. The graphics are expansive: During a stunning UH-60 Black Hawk door gunner sequence, the spra...
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March 30, 2006

Review: Project Gotham Racing 3 (Xbox 360)

The Details: Project Gotham Racing 3 is a street-race simulator that puts you behind the wheel of some 80 cars on a diverse selection of urban courses, ranging from the Las Vegas strip to Tokyo's Shin...
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March 30, 2006

Adidas_1 are smart, but are they fast?

The Details: Electronic footwear hasn’t been in fashion since Get Smart’s shoe phone. Adidas hopes to resurrect the circuited shoe with the Adidas_1, the only shoe on the market that thinks about runn...
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Technology

CES 2007

Get hands-on with the newest innovations from PM's tech team: 24 videos, live blogging from Instapundit Glenn Reynolds, podcasting and a cheaper iPhone.

Industry

Movies 2.0: Digital Magic

PM goes to Hollywood to explain the revolution in digital cinema. Plus, the top 10 F/X scenes ever, podcasts with industry insiders, video of hot new flicks and more.

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Research

Breakthrough Awards: Complete Coverage

Popular Mechanics honored America's top innovators for 2006. Inside, meet the faces of technology's future with multimedia coverage of the awards.

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Reviews

The Boy Mechanic

Culled from a half-century of Popular Mechanics issues (make that the first half of last century), The Boy Mechanic represents an age when imagination could conquer far more than the checkbook — when solving a problem was more satisfying than paying to have it go away.