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With the peak oil crisis looming, the Vee 9 solar vehicle has been getting a lot of press recently. And for good reason — it promises the same guilt-free commute experience as trendier rides like the Toyota Prius and Ford Escape — but for nearly $20,000 less.
With big, expensive equipment and closely con- trolled experiment schedules, particle physics has never been a field for the do-it-yourselfer. But that didn’t stop Tim Koeth from building two operational cyclotrons on his own time and dime.
Forget billionaire Richard Branson’s overpriced tourist spaceships. For a few thousand bucks, physics student Art Vanden Berg put his computer-controlled model glider 79,000 feet into the stratosphere.
Garnet Hertz will never want or need to debug his mobile robot, because it’s controlled by a live cockroach.
The time is right for a true people’s hybrid vehicle. The web is peppered with how-to sites for converting your old car into an electric vehicle, but why not develop SourceForge-style documentation for an open source hybrid?
One of nine temporary installations commissioned for the 2004 Olympics, “White Noise/White Light” is a hi-tech re-visioning of agrarian bliss.
If you’ve ever watched a child play with a pinstriped, pint-sized Hot Wheels racer, you may have wondered if the toy car was following some secret, virtual map in that child’s mind. Sketch-a-Move not only proves that the answer is yes, it brings those invisible maps to life.
