Scouring the recently-posted PopSci archives on Google Books, reader Wesley Treat has put together a collection documenting the magazine’s odd, decades-long obsession with the idea of a personal monowheel.
Google has added the complete archives of several magazines, including Popular Science (est. 1872) and Popular Mechanics (est. 1905), to its books search–complete with advertisements and illustrations. It’s awesome.
It’s simple mathematics people: A copy of PopSci costs $8.95 on the newstand. A 12 month subscription costs $84.95, which works out at a saving of $22.45 over a year. A copy of Spore will set you back about $90. Which means that if you subscribe to PopSci this month, you’ll end up getting $112.45 worth of free stuff for your 85 bucks.
Not only that, but you can enter the mag’s other competitions, which include the chance to win a $900 Blu-ray pack, a $900 Tamron lens and a $140 STM bag. That’s a lot of value for your purchase, right there.
The timeframe for the free Spore giveaway probably ends fairly soon, so you should get subscribing sooner rather than later…
Just last week, Time announced what they considered the 50 most important technological breakthroughs of 2008. Not to be outdone, today Popular Science has named their 100 “Best of What’s New.” Unlike Time, PopSci has categorised their awards into achievements in Automotive, Aviation & Space, Computing, Engineering, Gadgets (of course!), Green Tech, Home Entertainment, Home Tech, Health, Recreation and Security. But you’ve had enough of a tease; you just want to see the winners:
