Popular Mechanics

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Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.
 

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Contents

Taking Control
37
Keyboards, Remote control (Rating)
Power Games
38
Computer game machines (Equipment)
Virtual Fitness
42
Exercise bicycles, Virtual reality (Exercise use)
To Beam Or Not to Beam
44
Technology transfer, Laser fusion, X ray lasers, Lasers (Physics use)
Sea Change
47
Automobiles, Trucks
Going Online
73
Databases
Have it Your Way
76
Mountain bicycles, Home-built
Topping Off
80
Roofs and roofing
Sears Plate Joiner
84
Jointers (Woodworking machinery)
Tools of the Rising Sun
87
Tools, Tool industry (Japan)

Engineering the '95s
56
Automobile engineering, Automobile engines (Design)
Piston-packing Showdown
60
Airplane racing
Is Stereo Dead?
64
3-D sound, Surround sound systems
Airborne Armor
68
Tanks, Military
Finer Forecasts
70
GOES (Geosynchronous Operational Environmental Satellites)
Fall in Line
93
Lawn equipment (Rating)
Countertop Facelift
96
Countertops (Maintenance and repair)
High-tech Fridge
108
Refrigerators (Energy usage)
The Alternate Fuel Report: Hydrogen-powered Miata
112
Hydrogen as fuel, Automobile engines (Fuel), Automobiles, Experimental (Rating)
New Tone for Tunes
114
Loudspeakers (Design)

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