19 posts and columns on Popular Mechanics

Rupert Murdoch Gives Guests a Sneak Peek of Tomorrow's "Daily" Tonight. Here's What They'll See.

in Media on February 1, 2011 at 6:31 am PT

The best ticket in town is the one that gets you into the News Corp. CEO’s apartment for a look at his long-awaited iPad newspaper tonight. I don’t have one! But I’ve got a pretty good idea of what his guests get to gawk at.

Hearst Makes Its iPad Debut With Esquire: Full Price, No Subscriptions

in Media on October 8, 2010 at 4:00 am PT

If you’re the kind of person who refuses to pay paper-and-ink prices for digital goods, then this one isn’t for you. But none of the iPad magazines are. Meantime, this one’s pretty slick.

Voices

Astro Boy's Retrofuturistic World Has Hints of Real-Life Tech

in News on October 27, 2009 at 12:03 am PT

When Astro Boy debuted as a Japanese manga comic almost 50 years ago, people had an out-of-this world notion of what the future would look like.

iFugly

in News on January 3, 2008 at 10:53 am PT

Popular Mechanics is frantically turning the crank on the Apple rumor mill, isn’t it? In the annual guessing-game leading up to the Macworld Expo, the publication speculates that CEO Steve Jobs will announce a breakthrough laptop-tablet device at this year’s keynote, one quite a bit different from the gigantism-afflicted iPhone tablets imagined by others. ” [...]