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On the eve of the Big Game, CBS Sports engineering guru Ken Aagaard takes us for a high-tech tour of Dolphin Stadium--rigged with nearly 50 cameras, hundreds of engineers and a new lighting system that'll blow your mind.
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With rumors swirling that General Motors is thinking of buying the Chrysler Group from DaimlerChrysler, will it be minus one for the Big Three? If there's anyone qualified to sort out fact from auto-industry fiction, it's Detroit Editor Jim Dunne, who joins me to discuss the fate
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Veteran ice breaker captain Rene Turenne talks about revolutionary new ice breaker designs and the consequences of a warmer arctic. Paradoxically, the opening of a northwest passage means a lot more work for U.S. and Canadian ice breaker crews. PLUS: Glenn Reynolds reviews Nikon'
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It allows you to put thousands of songs in your pocket, watch brilliant, life-like TV and communicate more efficiently, and faster than ever before. But there's one thing digital technology can't yet provide: The ease and simplicity of the dial, knob and toggle switch. Instapundi
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From the Tesla Roadster to the all-electric Mini Cooper S, we've driven our share of electric cars. West coast editor Ben Stewart joins me to share his impressions of all-electric and plug-in hybrids, as well as to chat about his wheel time in some non-electric, thoroughbred supe
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Take a trip back to the future... Of our past. Popular Mechanics contributing editor and resident roboticist Daniel H. Wilson (who just happens to be the author of the new book Where's My Jetpack?), joins me figure out what ever happened to that silvery, mechanized, automatic fut
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Leading global warming experts Gavin Schmidt, Trevor Williams and Meredith Nettles join us for a roundtable discussion about the science behind climate modeling and learn the frightening facts we already know and the even more frightening ones we don't know yet. Plus: In a new se
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After all the fanfare from techies worldwide, the touchscreen coffee table that could change the world is just getting started. Senior technology editor Glenn Derene, who was the first journalist to go hands-on with Surface, analyzes the top-secret development and the limitless f
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At T-minus 3 hours, 45 minutes before the Space Shuttle Atlantis launch, NASA administrator Michael Griffin sat down with Popular Mechanics for a very candid conversation on the space agency's future, from partnering with private space moguls to the 2008 elections. Plus: why Detr
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At PM headquarters to promote the Live Earth concerts, Al Gore sits down with us to talk about his green renovations at home and ethanol's future in America. And on the brink of iPhone launch, our tech team looks to where not enough people are with this super gadget: down the roa