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Popular Mechanics Awards Technological Innovation
PreacherTom writes "Every year, Popular Mechanics attempts to find the most innovative tech products and hand out a little notoriety. This year's honorees range from everyday items like a $17 Crescent RapidSlide wrench, which puts a new, faster spin on an already well-designed tool, to a high-end Lexus that can virtually park itself. PM took an extra step by honoring innovators in science, having solicited nominations from a board of editorial advisers that includes Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin and Dr. Amy Smith, a professor at MIT. Winners include Burt Rutan (of SpaceShipTwo fame) and Angela Belcher (for her work with virus nanofabrication)."
How the hell does a /. submission get accepted about a popular mechanics article that has a link to businessweek.com instead of a link to the article at the popular mechanics website? There have got to be better submissions to choose from. /. seems to be going downhill like bad water these days.
Forget the fact that businessweek.com is one of the most poorly designed and annoying web sites on the internet. To be avoided by anyone who might want to actually read something without grinding their teeth flat.
"We are all geniuses when we dream"
- E.M. Cioran
"...to a high-end Lexus that can virtually park itself."
Wouldn't you prefer a car that would *actually* park itself, not just park itself in VR?
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Yes, let's verb random nouns and utterance them.
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
I don't think the submitter understands the negative connotations of the words "notoriety" and "notorious".