Popular Mechanics - March 2010 PDF
Name Digital Magazine: Popular Mechanics
Year: 2010
Issue: March
Country: US
Language: English
Format magazine: PDF
Pages: 123 pages
Size: 14 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 - March 2010 PDF:
56 Over the Horizon When the Air Force recently mapped out a game plan to 2047, the report contained a big surprise: fewer pilots and more UAVs acting on their own. Will the airmancentric service accept a future with few cockpits? BY JOE PAPPALARDO Test Your DIY IQ From paint chemistry to attic insulation, the PM doit- yourself quiz separates the expert from the amateur. Where do you stand? BY HARRY SAWYERS Super Tugs As ships get bigger, towing companies build more powerful and agile tugboats to guide the behemoths in and out of port. PM rides on the 6500-hp Edward J. Moran, tasked with escorting a liquefied- naturalgas tanker that some call a giant floating bomb. BY CARL HOFFMAN 80 Olympic Science Whether athletes at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver compete on snow or ice, they train hard and invest in stateof- the-art equipment to harness complex physics— and win the gold. BY DAVIN COBURN 86 Small Boat, Big Fish New designs make fishing kayaks stealthier and far more stable than their traditional counterparts, allowing anglers to go where no motorboat can and reel in huge fish without risking an unwanted dip. BY T. EDWARD NICKENS 91 Turf War We pit eight walk mowers against the obstacle course that is the American lawn. 94 Homeowners Clinic le secret to a good-looking vinyl cove base. Plus: Sealing a cracked foundation. 101 Saturday Mechanic Need to bench your car for a season or two? Use this guide to avoid corrosion. 104 Car Clinic How an out-of-time belt can destroy your engine. Plus: Recycling synthetic motor oils. 109 Quiet Your PC From rattling fans to vibrating CD-ROM drives, your PC makes quite a racket. Here’s how to silence it. 113 Digital Clinic How to juggle multiple phone numbers using Google Voice. Plus: Turning off netbook trackpad tapping. 13 Risks of Clicks Browser beware: An Internet security company ranks the sketchiest domains. Plus: Why is an ordinarylooking cow worth millions? 25 Power Book Lenovo’s Skylight smartbook merges cellphone battery life with netbook features. Plus: Can travel mugs withstand our Abusive Lab Test? 35 Changing Course le nimble new Buick Regal brings GM up to speed. Plus: Lexus’s GX 460 offers the best in luxury off-roading; a pair of plug-ins prep for production. 48 Jay Leno’s Garage Jay’s classic Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing has a restored powerplant, but it still looks a little rough around the edges. at’s just part of its charm. How to Reach Us 6 / Letters 8 / This Is My Job 120 64 DIY IQ / 56 Air Strike 2025 / 74 Super Tugboats / 52 Long-Term Test Cars / 86 Kayak Fishing / 91 Top Lawnmowers / 80 Science of the Olympics 52 Long-Term Test Cars Honda’s new Insight still has impressive fuel economy; we log 10,000 miles on Audi’s A4 Avant; and the VW Jetta takes its final road trip. pm do-it-yourself
