This Week In The Future: A Monkey Masterpiece

This Week In The Future, March 11-15, 2013 BaarbarianIn the future, when the super-intelligent apes and gun-toting dolphins have taken over, they will have their own Renaissance. Want to win this artistic Baarbarian illustration on a T-shirt? It’s easy! The rules: Follow us on Twitter (we’re @PopSci) and retweet our This Week in the Future tweet. One of those lucky retweeters will be chosen to receive a custom T-shirt with this week’s Baarbarian illustration on it, thus making the winner the envy of frie…

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Check Out This Dwarf 1949 Mercury

There are few hot rods cooler than the ’49 Merc.  A family friend had one years ago – with its chopped top, bulbous shape, and loud exhaust, it was the epitome of the lead sled.  So how do you make a ’49 Mercury even cooler?  Make a hand-fabricated dwarf version of it, naturally.

A reader sent us this video, and it’s just too cool not to share.  A man named Ernie Adams created his first dwarf car in 1965, powered by a motorcycle engine.  In 1980, he and his friend Dare…

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Giant Geneva motor show photo gallery: Check out the cars and stars from this year’s Swiss supershow

From exotic supercars to the latest in people-hauling, here’s a photographic look at the vehicles that stormed the 2013 Geneva motor show.

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Giant Geneva motor show photo gallery: Check out the cars and stars from this year’s Swiss supershow

From exotic supercars to the latest in people-hauling, here’s a photographic look at the vehicles that stormed the 2013 Geneva motor show.

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Wheels Blog: Rolls-Royce Wraith: Something Slightly Wicked This Way Comes

Times are changing, and Rolls-Royce – now owned by BMW – finds itself obligated to go, to some extent, with the flow.

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Video: Audi fits paintball cannons to two Audi RS4 Avants, and this is what happened

Want some lunchtime entertainment? Audi has just released some videos of a little paintball competition that they decided to set up, featuring the all-new Audi RS4 sport wagon.

Click here for our original post on the 2014 Audi RS4 Avant that we don’t get.
Two RS4 Avants, one black, one white, were fitted with special high-caliber paintball cannons on the hoods, while one was fitted with paintball grenades and the other dumped paint a-la oil slick.
And of course, in classic paintball fashion, one h…

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This Day in History: Final Model A produced

On February 28, 1932, the final Ford Model A was produced. The successor to the wildly popular Model T, the 40hp Model A was a success in its own right; nearly five million Model As rolled onto American highways between 1927 and 1932.

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Watch This Guy Fire 600 Rounds With A Partially 3-D Printed Gun

Defense Distributed’s new demonstration of their improved 3-D printed gun with a large capacity magazine seems designed to confound–and throw a middle finger to–Congress, which is trying to ban high-capacity magazines. The agents provocateur at Defense Distributed welcomed Congress back from recess by releasing a video of a brand new 3-D printed AR-15 receiver being used to fire multiple 100-round magazines. The video, embedded below, features a gun being fired for almost the video’s entire 3-minute ru…

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2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee EcoDiesel V-6 First Drive: Like Diesel? You’ll Dig this GC

If Jeep’s Grand Cherokee didn’t have enough iterations—including gas V-6 or V-8, rear- or four-wheel drive, fire-breathing SRT, etc.—the model’s 2014 refresh brings with it a 3.0-liter turbo-diesel V-6. The update also includes new exterior lighting, re-sculpted front and rear styling, and an updated interior. READ MORE ››

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This Day in History: Rudolf Diesel patents his engine

On February 23, 1892, Rudolf Diesel obtained German patent RP 67207, Arbeitsverfahren und Ausführungsart für Verbrennungsmaschinen (roughly, “Working process and realization method for internal combustion engines”) for his new compression-ignition engine design. The Diesel engine would prove immensely more mechanically efficient than contemporary steam engine designs, and quite adaptable. It’s still in common use today, particularly in European cars and modern tractor-trailer rigs.

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