September, 2004

September 30, 2004 World's tallest, fastest roller coaster to rise at Six Flags Great Adventure! (with photo) See also How Roller Coasters Work. New system reads road signs and yells at you if you are going too fast! See also How Car Computers Work. Hospital camera watches you, decides how much pain you are in, injects relief! See also How Emergency Rooms Work. Laser beam fired at commercial jet can blind pilot, possibly cause crash. See also How Lasers Work. Whale takes a surfer for a real ride off California -- lifts his board right out of water! See also How Whales Work. September 29, 2004 Tiny nuclear microbatteries may soon be powering your cell phone! See also How Batteries Work. New encoding technique could store 1,000 gigabytes -- 472 hours of film -- on a single DVD! See also How DVDs Work. Multiple companies are getting ready to sell you suborbital flights for just $200,000! See also How SpaceShipOne Works. The Mt. St. Helens VolcanoCam is ready to show you the next eruption! See also How Volcanoes Work. Chocolate bars will be getting smaller in an attempt to control obesity. See also How Chocolate Works. September 27, 2004 Rats with brain implants, trained to smell humans, will start rescuing people! See also How Guide Dogs Work. Huge, huge surprise here -- psychics and mediums can't predict diddly! See also How ESP Works. Traffic is getting so bad that flying ambulances and fire trucks are inevitable! See also How Flying Cars Work. If they can't fix the oxygen generators, it may be curtains for the space station! See also How Space Stations Work. Check out this nice video of ASIMO doing an interview with CNN. See also How ASIMO Works. September 22, 2004 Here's a photo of all the hardware it took to run Google in 1999! Such a simple start... See also How Search Engines Work. Police chief takes a Taser to see how it feels! (with video) See also How Stun Guns Work. Very special beer can sells for $11,000 on eBay! See also How Beer Works. New WTC replacement tower in NYC will be a green giant! (with photos) See also The World Trade Center. If you lift weights to increase muscle mass, chances are you're not lifting nearly enough! See also How Muscles Work. September 16, 2004 For $3,000, you can experience weightlessness for a day! Really! (with video) See also How Spacesuits Work. New scientific habitat for Antarctica looks like a spaceship! (with photo) See also How Mars Works. You can open "high-tech" Kryptonite locks with a plastic pen! (with instructions) See also How Lock Picking Works. New WTC replacement tower in NYC will be a green giant! (with photos) See also The World Trade Center. If you lift weights to increase muscle mass, chances are you're not lifting nearly enough! See also How Muscles Work. September 16, 2004 Unexploded hydrogen bomb dropped by Air Force off U.S. coast may have been found! See also How Nuclear Bombs Work. Want to stay healthy? Try gambling! At least that's what this study says... See also How Blackjack Works. New WTC replacement tower in NYC will be a green giant! (with photos) See also The World Trade Center. If you lift weights to increase muscle mass, chances are you're not lifting nearly enough! See also How Muscles Work. How can we stop hurricanes? - What about giant fans, nukes or olive oil? See also How Hurricanes Work. September 14, 2004 These cops shoot themselves with stun guns so they know what it feels like! (with photos) See also How Stun Guns Work. SpaceShipOne gets an engine upgrade that increases performance 20% ! See also How SpaceShipOne Works. A mysterious, unknown force is pulling Pioneer 10 and 11 out of their normal trajectories! See also How the Sun Works. The U.S. assault-weapons ban expires today, so now you can buy that AK-47, Uzi or TEC-9. See also How Machine Guns Work. Cool car name decoder lets you figure out what something like "LS 430" really means! See also How Cars Work. September 13, 2004 Why so many big hurricanes this year? Charley, Frances, Ivan... This article explains what's up! See also How Hurricanes Work. September 10, 2004 Cool car name decoder lets you figure out what something like "LS 430" really means! See also How Cars Work. Genesis spacecraft is a mess but something may be salvaged (with close-up photo). See also How the Sun Works. New cell phone headset using military tech eliminates noise completely! (with photos) See also How Cell Phones Work. 50 of the weirdest world records listed for your amazement! See also How Tattoos Work. New subs will have flippers like a penguin so that they can turn on a dime! See also How Submarines Work. September 9, 2004 Get your own tiny satellite into orbit - see what you can pack in a 4-inch cube! See also How Satellites Work. Four simple steps you can take to lock down your insecure WiFi home network! See also How WiFi Works. The Genesis spacecraft has crashed in the desert after a parachute failure. (with photo) See also How the Sun Works. September 8, 2004 Four simple steps you can take to lock down your insecure WiFi home network! See also How WiFi Works. Soon you can download a DVD directly to your TiVo over the Internet! See also How DVDs Work. The first cell phone with a 1.5 GB hard disk inside will make a great MP3 player! See also How Cell Phones Work. September 7, 2004 Giant "flying triangle" UFOs are silent, 300 ft long and totally mysterious! (with image) See also How Stealth Bombers Work. SETI@home has found a signal 1,000 light-years away that looks like ET! Or maybe not. See also How SETI Works. New, jet-powered wheelchair can go 60 mph - no joke! (with photos) See also How Jet Engines Works. New car suspension completely removes bumps using linear electric motors at each wheel! (w/pics) See How Motors Work. Waiters can use all sorts of tricks to increase the tip you leave - scientific study proves it! See also How Tipping Works. September 2, 2004 By 2050, China will use as much power as the entire world generates today! See also How Nuclear Power Works. September 1, 2004 New car suspension completely removes bumps using linear electric motors at each wheel! (w/pics) See How Motors Work. New MP3 player is smaller than iPod Mini with bigger disk and twice the battery! (with photo) See also How MP3 Players Work.