Popular Science Archive

  • Sleek Audio shows off their SA7 in-ear monitors

    Sleek Audio shows off their SA7 in-ear monitors

    Don't call them earbuds, at this price point they are considered to be in-ear monitors. The SA7 are the latest from Sleek Audio, and replace the previous model, the SA6 that Devin reviewed previously.

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  • Popular Science archives are now online

    Popular Science archives are now online

    Back in the old days, when people got their tech news from stacks of paper stapled together called "magazines," Popular Science was a nerd's dream. It was full of all sorts of exciting things, had less nudity in it than Omni (Note: This is not a good thing but your parents would buy it for you), and let you dream of jet packs. This is not to say that that old stalwart PopSci isn't still around, but back in the old days it was our only lifeline to the world of high tech.

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  • The Mag+ shows how we might one day read magazines, if mags don’t die first

    The Mag+ shows how we might one day read magazines, if mags don’t die first

    See that tablet concept thing designed by design agency BERG? Yeah, that might be the future of print publications. But you probably already knew that. For the past 20 years tablets have been deemed the next-gen magazine, but so far nothing has been produced that actually steps up to the task. And don’t get excited, [...]

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  • R2D2 features 8 consoles, projector

    R2D2 features 8 consoles, projector

    And here we see one of the most useful implementations of an astromech droid to date. Modder Brian De Vitis gutted a novelty R2D2 beverage cooler and somehow managed to stuff eight old-school consoles inside. And – AND! – there’s a built-in projector. Very nice.

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  • Video: The World’s Fastest Remote-Control Car

    Video: The World’s Fastest Remote-Control Car

    Friggin’ nuts. If you wish to live a long life, you should never drive a car over 100 miles per hour. But remotely controlling a vehicle at blazingly fast speeds sounds pretty rad. That’s the idea behind Nic Case’s Schumacher Mi3, who holds the world record for fastest R/C car with a max speed of [...]

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