Popular Mechanics - January 2010 PDF
Name Digital Magazine: Popular Mechanics
Year: 2010
Issue: January
Country: US
Language: English
Format magazine: PDF
Pages: 119 pages
Size: 30.7 Mb
About Popular Mechanics:
Popular Mechanics is for people who have a passion to know how things work. It's about how the latest advances in science and technology will impact your home, your car, consumer electronics, computers, even your health. Popular Mechanics - answers for curious minds. Who Reads Popular Mechanics? The Popular Mechanics reader is curious. The reader is driven to explore, become knowledgeable and actively participate in a wide variety of interests, making him today's Go-to Guy that Main Street America goes to for advice. What You Can Expect in Each Issue: The Popular Mechanics reader has a curious mind - a hunger to know, an inquisitive interest, and a desire to investigate and learn. Every month, Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences millions of curious minds - engaging them with breakthroughs in science and technology, how-to stories on digital technology, automotive advances and home upgrades. Tech Watch: Reporters dig deep to find new and exciting technological advances that will keep readers up-to-date with cutting-edge innovations – in aviation, computers, energy, environment, health, military, robotics, space and transportation. Upgrade: Reporters collect the best gear from the biggest trade shows – from new tools for the home and worksite to the most advanced digital gadgets – and provide no-nonsense comparison tests and monthly reviews. New Cars: Auto editors at Popular Mechanics give readers a comprehensive sneak-peak of the most exciting vehicles coming out of Detroit, Asia and Europe. DIY Auto: This section gives readers a place to go for all their automotive repair and maintenance questions and answers – allowing them to skip the trip to the local mechanic by providing them instructions on exactly how to diagnose and repair any number of auto problems. DIY Home: This section offers readers a column with a variety of step-by-step home improvement projects, including useful tips, advice and product reviews. DIY Tech: This gives readers hands on advice on all things tech – from cameras and computers to HDTV and surround sound – keeping them one step ahead of the curve. Feature Articles: Popular Mechanics tells you how the latest advances in science and technology will impact your home, your car, consumer electronics, computers, even your health. Features include: Tech Watch, Upgrade, New Cars, Saturday Mechanic, Car Clinic, Homeowners Clinic, and Jay Leno's Garage. Magazine Layout: Popular Mechanics is clean, crisp, fresh and cool. The magazine continuously delivers to curious minds every month - and even at 102 years young, continues to be a voice of authority on all things science, automotive, technology, home and outdoors.Comparisons to Other Magazines: Popular Mechanics is the essential source for the modern man. From installing windows in their home or on their computer, Popular Mechanics gives readers the information and tools they need to be confident and competent in today’s high-tech world. Advertising: Popular Mechanics has a wide variety of advertisers, from automobiles to retailers and tools to home and garden, and everything in between. Awards: Over the past 9 years, Popular Mechanics has won over 60 Art and Design Awards - ranging from Distinction in Editorial Design to Best Cover of the Year, to Best Table of Contents to Distinction in Photography. In 2008, Popular Mechanics won the American Society of Magazine Editors award for excellence in service journalism, for its 3 part series on the fast growing national anxiety - the degradation of the environment.With plenty of features on the latest high-tech cars, tools, sports gear, and military developments, Popular Mechanics is the source for discriminating gadget heads. Full-page ads for spark plugs, extrastrong glues, and manly cigarettes fuel the magazine's testosterone engine, and many of the how-to articles are designed to help today's male achieve maximum speed, efficiency, and style in his leisure activities. In-depth articles on the history of the baseball glove, comparison tests of mulching mowers, and a list of the cables you'll need to build a home network join brief news bites covering science, outdoors, and home improvement. With a copy of Popular Mechanics and a fat wallet, you could be the alpha male you've always wanted to be! --Therese Littleton Product DescriptionPopular Mechanics is for people who have a passion to know how things work. It's about how the latest advances in science and technology will impact your home, your car, consumer electronics, computers, even your health. Popular Mechanics - answers for curious minds.
Content issue Popular Mechanics - January 2010 PDF:
View From the Brink Director James Cameron dreams up movies that can’t be made with existing technology, then invents the machinery to transform his fantasies into film. He puts his wizardry—and reputation—on the line with his latest project, Avatar, a 3D sci-fi epic. BY ANNE THOMPSON 68 The Deadly Season It’s risky but potentially lifesaving work: Ski into the heart of avalanche country and bomb slideprone slopes. PM glides along with the dawn patrol. Fire in the hole! BY MICHAEL FINKEL 72 The Machines Are Watching Las Vegas … Sin City? More like Spy City. And the high-tech surveillance and data mining that keep casinos profitable and gamblers in line may soon be coming to a shopping mall, airport or workplace near you. Are you okay with that? BY MICHAEL KAPLAN 13 Nuclear Recharge Long-lasting, nuke-powered batteries charge hard-toaccess gear. Plus: What the Air Force fears most. 23 Cool Breeze Dyson Air Multiplier is the world’s first bladeless fan. Plus: Garbage bags get the Abusive Lab Test treatment. 35 Leading Man GM may hit its stride with the new Terrain. Plus: Genius at the Frankfurt Motor Show. 44 Jay Leno’s Garage In the 1950s, the Fiat was an Italian staple—and Jay thinks it has the potential to be a go-to car in the U.S. too. 48 The Future of Fat Fat isn’t just blubber—it’s a complex organ that could help you lose weight. 50 10 Tech Concepts From anthropomimetic machines to piezoelectric displays, PM takes you through the big ideas that will make headlines in 2010. 56 How It Works: Ocean Rower A look inside the boat that a 22-year-old athlete will row solo across the Atlantic Ocean. 89 The New Cubism If you can build a box, you can furnish a room. Here, steps to construct a versatile table, stackable shelves—even a bed. 92 Homeowners Clinic Tips and tricks for flawless caulking. Plus: How to quiet a buzzing dimmer switch. 97 Saturday Mechanic Diesels are famously durable, but they still need attention. Follow these tips to extend your engine’s life expectancy. 100 Car Clinic Choosing correct turn-signal flashers. Plus: Should you replace both rear-brake wheel cylinders at the same time? 106 The DIY Touchscreen PC We turn a standard netbook into a finger-friendly machine. 108 Digital Clinic Surprising ways silica gel saves electronics. Plus: What drains a smartphone’s battery faster—3G or Wi-Fi? 50 2010 Tech Preview 80 Cheap Speed 72 How Track You 58 Digital Hollywood 68 We Ski With Avalanche Blasters
