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The Top 100 Tech Innovations of 2006
Our annual guide to the year's most amazing products—and the people who created them


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Hubble, New and Improved
NASA’s baby gets a checkup and a bunch of new toys
Courtesy NASA/Hubblesite.org
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MegaGoods 2.0
More drool-worthy gadgets! More must-have-'em tools! More superfun toys! Our biggest-ever collection of the most lust-inducing tech on the market
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Our High-Tech Dream House
PopSci has built a house in California equipped with the most advanced materials, cutting-edge technologies and incredible household gadgets available today. Take a look inside with our virtual tour
Graham Murdoch
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Are You Ready for the Future?
On Saturday, November 4, Popular Science and GMA Weekend journeyed to the year 2031 during a special broadcast of Good Morning America
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Your Brain on Fatherhood
Contrary to popular belief, child-rearing may make men smarter
Kozorovitskiy et al. (2006) Nature Neuroscience
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Better Than Blood?
A man-made, pure-white compound called Oxycyte carries oxygen 50 times as effectively as our own blood. Researchers are betting that it’s the best way to treat America’s leading cause of accidental death: traumatic brain injury
John B. Carnett
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Magic-Carpet Rides
Eclipse Aviation founder Vern Raburn brings the corporate jet to the masses
John B. Carnett
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Natural-Gas Guzzler
Will Honda’s natural-gas-powered Civic GX blow other “green” cars off the road? See the first reports from our year-long in-depth test
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The Top-Secret Warplanes of Area 51
Stealth jets? Hypersonic bombers? What's really being developed at the military's most famous classified base?
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The Invisible Warship
The Navy’s next destroyer is two football fields long, but on radar it looks like a fishing boat
John MacNeill
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Going Nowhere Fast
The Baja 1000 is the toughest road race on the planet. To win it, you need a lot of guts, a lot of money and a state-of-the-art new truck
John B. Carnett
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Making Salt the Hard Way
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A Fire-Breathing Bot
The best-selling Robosapien toy robots are made to be hacked, so we asked the guy who wrote the book on modding them to create a flame-throwing Robozilla

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A British backhoe manufacturer takes its new engine to an unlikely work site: Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats




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