The Crazy Design of NASA’s New Mars Rover
Nasa is getting ready to throw a Mini Cooper-sized mobile science lab up into space. Curiosity, as the rover is affectionately called, is headed toward Mars with a payload of lasers and mass spectrometers and multi-million dollar robotic drills-basically all the stuff needed to prove fourth planet conditions are capable of supporting microbial life… conditions…
Get In On This Week’s Top Deals With Chase Slate
There’s nothing quite like that thrilling, fuzzy feeling you get in your stomach when you realize you’re about to save major cash on an item you really, really want. Which is why, with help from Slate from Chase, we’ve gathered some of the best online tech deals, and brought them here to you, our budget-minded…
Small But Powerful: 30 Useful PC Apps Under 2MB
When it comes to computing, our general philosophy at Maximum PC is that bigger is better. More, speed, more memory, more power—as far as hardware goes, there’s no such things as excess. Software, though… Software’s a little different. Big, feature-packed utilities and applications are great, but we prefer apps that show a little restraint. That’s…
No Road? No Problem! 12 Portable Bridges
When the potholes get too big to dodge, you’ll need a bridge layer. These gap-spanning mechs have been conquering divides since WWI (almost as long as the tanks they’re attached to) and our friends at Oobject.com have 12 of the coolest. These Port-a-Spans not enough? Try some bridges you can live in or a few…