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

Wake Up Call
26
Wakeboarding
Vision Revision
28
Blindness, Medicine (Computer use), Brain damage, Computers and the blind, Vision
Cyber Greetings
38
Electronic greeting cards
Tiny TV.
42
MicroDisplay Corporation, Videophones, Liquid crystal displays
Special Ops
50
United States Army Special Operations Division, Helicopters (Military use)
Toyota Sienna
66
Toyota Sienna (Automobile)
Plutonium Peril
70
United States Dept. of Energy, Radioactive waste disposal (Nevada), Groundwater pollution (Nevada), Yucca Mountain (Nev.)
Mini Motorsport
74
Model cars (Radio control), Model car racing
Computers Under a Grand
78
Computers (Rating, Prices)
Lincoln Navigator
85
Lincoln Navigator (Automobile)

What a Racket!
54
Tennis rackets
For Control Freaks Only
56
Remote control (Rating), Audio-video systems (Control)
Skin Deep
60
Chrysler Corp Dodge Division, Automobiles (Advertising), Television advertising (Special effects, Computer use), Dodge Intrepid (Automobile)
Dunesday Chronicles
62
George Smith Patton (American general.); 1885-1945, All terrain vehicles (Rating), Tanks, Military (History), Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area (Calif.)
Snow Business
88
Snow blowers, throwers, etc (Rating)
Business Class
94
Office furniture
Repairing an Icemaker Water Valve
96
Water valves (Maintenance and repair), Ice makers (Maintenance and repair)

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