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7 Gifts For The Gamer On Your List, Whether Or Not You Game
The Retro Game PlayerThinkGeekRetro games make thoughtful gifts. So do new games. So do things that aren't related to games at all. Here's a few ideas to get you started. Gamers are tough to shop for....
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To Make Steam Without Boiling Water, Just Add Sunlight And Nanoparticles
Everything You Need For A Steam Generatortim.perdue via FlickrA mixture of plain water, nanoparticles, and sunlight can convert water into steam without ever even bringing it to a boil Today in...
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BeerSci: How To Drink Your Thanksgiving Meal
A Feast In A Bottle You could have (almost) all of this fine food in beer form! WikipediaTips on making Turkey Beer and other highly questionable holiday brews Ah, Thanksgiving. That gluttonous annual...
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Watch This Awesome Robot Play Catch Better Than Your Dad
This Robot Practically Has PalmsYouTubeDisney researchers invented a humanoid animatron that plays a lifelike game of catch. Fancy a round of catch? This Disney robot plays an eerily humanlike game. In...
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These Beautiful Nano-Rainbows Could Make Better TVs
Nano RainbowsKing's College LondonPotential to make better solar cells? Check. Improved televisions down the road? Check. Pretty? Check. It's difficult to manage color when you get to the nanoscale,...
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Google Nexus 4 Review: The Phone You Should Buy This Black Friday
Google Nexus 4Dan NosowitzIt's probably the best smartphone on the market, period. The Nexus 4 is the first Android phone that combines all the disparate parts of a phone--interface, options, ease of...
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Happy Thanksgiving From PopSci!
This Week In The Future, November 19-21, 2012BaarbarianThe PopSci staff will be out of the office the rest of this week so we can spend some time with our families. (We'll miss you, too.) In the...
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9 Of The Most Wanted Gadgets... Of 1952
Enclose Your Child in this Model Train SetWe thumb through the pages of Popular Science to find the carpet-sewing machines and robotic soda jerks that no doubt populated Christmas lists 60 years ago....
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Grand Award Winner: Nest Learning Thermostat
HAL For Your HouseSam KaplanAn intelligent thermostat. A thermostat has tremendous power: It controls heating and cooling, the most expensive, energy-guzzling system in a house. Until the Nest,...
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Grand Award Winner: Sony VPL-VW1000ES
A Real Home TheaterSam KaplanThe quality of cinema on the home screen. Screen quality follows a simple rule: The larger the screen, the more pixels necessary to fill it. A high-def image is 1,920 by...
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The 7 Greatest Engineering Innovations Of 2012
The Largest SemisubmersibleCourtesy DockwiseFrom the world's largest semisubmersible vessel to a carbon-neutral office building that might be the most sustainable workplace ever In 2012, buildings,...
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A Pill That Tells When It's Taken
The Feedback System TeamMichael ChoThe Proteus Digital Health Feedback System, a blend of MEMS and wireless data transfer, could take the guesswork out of drug delivery for good. As a doctor, George...
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Can Taking A Pill Before Bed Get Rid Of Bed Bugs?
Bed Bug Pill?Brooke BorelA so-called "bed bug pill" has been in the news. Is it for real? Can you cure a bed bug infestation just by downing drugs? While the idea has appeal, particularly for people...
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Laser-Cut Scotch Tape Makes A Tiny Gripping Robotic Claw
The holiday staple/bane of gift wrappers' existence is now a water-collecting gripper. Scotch tape is indispensable this time of year, even for the least-skilled gift wrappers among us. Now it may have...
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With Electrodes Implanted In The Retina, Blind Patient Can Read
Reading BrailleWikimedia CommonsThe patient didn't touch a thing, but could read Braille letters downloaded into his brain. A new eye prosthetic can download electrical data right into a blind person's...
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BigPic: Sun Gone Wild
Toward The 'Solar Maximum'NASA/SDOHow do we know the sun is moving into the most active part of its 11-year cycle? For starters, we can plainly see it. Every time the sun lashes out with another...
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The Highway Patrol Cop Of The Future Is A Robotic Unicycle
Honda's CHP Drone Squad ConceptHondaOr maybe an aerial drone. The LA Auto Show's annual Design Challenge suggests the patrol car of the future is optionally manned, self-driving, and armed with...
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NASA Employees Have Highest Job Satisfaction In Federal Government
NASA Employees really, really like NASA.Wikimedia CommonsAn Office Personnel Management report shows that NASA is a pretty sweet gig. Working for the famously bureaucratic federal government can feel...
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How Kids (And Other Amateurs) Are Improving Science
Citizen ScientistsJon Gilbert Fox/PSUA new report takes an in-depth dive into citizen science. Enlisting non-scientists, the researchers say, could revolutionize how we collect data. Scientists often...
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What The Future Will Look Like, According To Famous Science Fiction...
Predicting The FutureAccurat/Brain PickingsStill hoping for an Internet that's accessible via your brain in 2020. Our science fiction isn't always on the nose. 1984 didn't look exactly like 1984, and...
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