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The Best of What's New From Popular Science

Posted by Hemos on from the and-floating-cars dept.

Wrathie writes ""The top 100 technological innovations of 2003, from aviation to defibrillation, GPS to Wi-Fi, rotary to rockets. The year and the gear that was." This article from Popular Science magazine is quite extensive."

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  1. Note to inventors by Albanach · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't release anything between November and December or it'll never make it to a "best of", "coolest of" or "top 5,000 things" list.

    1. Re:Note to inventors by arth1 · · Score: 5, Funny
      Don't release anything between November and December or it'll never make it to a "best of", "coolest of" or "top 5,000 things" list.

      Correction: You don't have to actually release something to get on PopSci's list. There's plenty of VaporWare on it. All you have to do is announce it well in advance. Again, some of the entries were announced years ago, but now have "a likely release in 2004".

      My guess is that PopSci's Game of the Year 2003 will be Duke Nukem Forever, followed by Half-Life 2 and Doom III.

      Regards,
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  2. bah by SHEENmaster · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Everyone knows the good issues of Popular Science are long gone. Remember projects/experiments, rather than just news? Yeah, Popular Mechanics used to have them too, ones relating to mechanics.

    Printed news is now effectively obsolete, they don't even stay curren on the happenings in Soviet Russia like slashdot does.

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  3. The best is... by h4rm0ny · · Score: 5, Insightful

    that which opens the door to future developments. I don't think a skinny TV, or even the beautiful maglev train contribute half as much as the entrants to the X-Prize. I don't think any of the others will stimulate further invention as much as a commercial space travel. Next I'd like to see the Y-Prize - first commercial hotel on Mars ;) Though that Mag-train is beautiful.

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  4. Re:Why is the RX8 on this list? by confu2000 · · Score: 5, Informative

    You should get your facts right.

    1) The new rating is 238. The old rating was 247. While various people have dyno'd and believe the true rating is below 238, there's some question as to if this is due to the car being too smart for single axel dynos and limiting performance if it doesn't detect the front wheels moving (plenty of BMWs do this too).

    At any rate, the car's perfectly capable of pulling a "less than 6.0" 0-60. 5.9 secs if you want to be precise.

    2) Yes, 159 lb-ft of torque is less than 160... It also redlines at 9000 rpms. It's a sports car so you rev it high and leave it there (and eat your gas bill). This isn't particularly different from the WRX (which admittedly isn't as bad) or S2000 both of which also lack low end torque (the WRX needs to get its turbos going before the fun really starts).