It takes more than elbow grease to ply the ocean depths for big game. Commercial deep-drop fishing requires using 10- to 20-pound weights to sink the bait and keep it stationary in strong currents, and each line suspends multiple hooks that can each ...
A diamond core drill might be the best device for draining a bank vault—second only to, say, a credit default swap. The 16-pound Eibenstock—the lightest machine in its class—can bore up to 50 holes through 18 inches of steel-reinforced concrete with ...
Gas metal arc welding is fine if you just want a truck's bumper to stay put for a few hundred thousand miles. But if you're building an Ares I rocket—the craft that will shuttle astronauts to the moon and beyond starting in 2020—you'll need a more ...
Sometimes a good vein is hard to find—especially when you're bouncing around in an ambulance or working on a convulsing junkie. That's why many critical-care pros pack the EZ-IO. With a beveled, hollow-tipped needle spinning at 1,000 rpm, the $295 ...
It's easy to drop stuff out of a low-flying chopper and have it land where you want. But in a war zone, low-altitude aircraft draw attention — and gunfire. To avoid the bad guys, high-flying planes can release Stara's Mosquito. Its customizable ...
The only question I have for Congressman John Lewis is, “What took you so long?” The McCain campaign was apparently caught off guard by the the race card salvo, while many of us knew this day would officially come. ARLINGTON, VA — U.S. Senator John ...
The prototype of the Power Ascender was not easy to use. The battery-powered, waist-mounted climbing assistant yanked people up a dangling rope at a blistering 10 feet per second — almost 7 mph — fast enough to snap their limbs back. So Atlas, a ...
You go, you flush: out of sight, out of mind. Not for city maintenance crews. With 850 billion gallons of sewer and storm water leaking into watersheds around the country every year, the Environmental Protection Agency is cracking down on cracked pipes. ...
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I’m sorry but this is one reason why I have no real respect for the so-called “peace movement”. I would think a peacenik would abhor all war and call for peace whenever and wherever it broke out. But alas, the peace movement is currently silent (Day ...
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