Motor Mayhem

Able to achieve horsepower ratings equivalent to piston engines in only one-half or one-quarter their size, the Spherical Golubev’s Machine (SGM) offers a unique approach to creating rotation that is small, highly reliable, and that places balanced, uniform loads on its parts. For example, a 500 HP, 5-liter engine measures 430mm x 430mm x 450mm [...]

RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can stay in the air for more than 24 hours. It has a range of 3,400 miles and can maintain altitudes of 65,381 ft. Normally the military  would have control over things such as these, but the Global Hawks have been turned over to NASA for environmental research [...]

After 27 years working with Navistar, ford has decided to move into producing their own diesel powerhouses. This is believed to be due to an ongoing legal battle between the two companies over warranty and cost issues related to the old 6.0L V8 Power Stroke. Ford’s new design named Scorpion is a 6.7L diesel [...]

Mercedes-Benz put the diesel version of its E-Class through a 100,000-mile test.
Automobile executives who come to the United States from Europe invariably wonder, with diesel-powered vehicles making up as much as half the new-car fleet in some countries, why diesels represent far less than 1 percent of the U.S. market.
“It’s frustrating,” said Nick Scheele, a [...]

The newest iPod touch is here with up to 64GB of memory for even more songs, video, and pictures. It is now priced at $199 (8GB), $299(32GB), and $399(64BG). The 32GB and 64GB ones offer the faster processor that is currently found in the iPhone 3Gs. This will allow for fast loading and more complicated [...]

Best Ways to Keep Your Car Running
By Tom and Ray Magliozzi, Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers

1. Don’t Drive

Want your car to last? Don’t use it. That sounds obvious, but it’s worth keeping in mind.
Chances are there are plenty of times when you currently use your car that you could be walking, biking, using public [...]

Is the DIY community so prevelent in the 50’s making a comeback?

Originally Featured on Auto Week

 
By PETE LYONS

Bruce Crower has lived, breathed and built hot engines his whole life. Now he’s working on a cool one—one that harnesses normally-wasted heat energy by creating steam inside the combustion chamber, and using it to boost the engine’s power output and also to control its [...]

Originally Posted on Popular Science
Walking is overrated. Here’s how to build the ultimate lazy man’s all-terrain vehicle, and a video of the sweet ride in action
By Doug Cantor Posted 02.28.2008 at 3:21 pm

On Deck: PopSci’s John Carnett on his home-built motorized skateboard. It can go as fast as 20 mph, and steers like [...]

Originally Posted on Popular Science
To create beautiful electrical-charge patterns like this, you could use a giant particle accelerator. But shag carpeting will also do just fine. Watch how Lichtenberg figures are made in our amazing video
By Theodore Gray Posted 02.15.2008 at 1:06 pm

Lightning Trigger: A Lichtenberg figure being created by a tap from a [...]