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COVER: COURTESY ZAP (SUV); NICK KALOTERAKIS (PLANE); NYU/EMILIO VEGA USING SIEMENS DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY (PHONE); THIS PAGE, BOTTOM ROW, FROM LEFT: JOHN B. CARNETT; COURTESY LUCASFILM
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48 THE MOST ADVANCED JET FIGHTER slow, hard to fly and not stealthy. The F-35B lets Marines
launch missions from small ships instead of Navy carriers.
f-35B Lightning II
SIZE: Length, 51 ft.; span, 35 ft.
The supersonic plane that can stop in midair. WEIGHT: 55,000 lbs.
FIGHTER
page to see inside it]. vertically. A helmet- FORWARD THRUST: 43,000 lb.-ft.
mounted display VERTICAL THRUST: 15,700
tracks objects wher- lb.-ft. from the main engine,
It lifts and steers this vertical-landing jet. The Marines’ new ride, the
ever the pilot looks. 20,000 lb.-ft. from the lift
fan, and 3,700 lb.-ft. from
roll posts under the wings
F-35B, or Joint Strike Fighter, WEAPONS: Two 1,000-lb.
52 THE PHONE THAT TOUCHES YOU BACK is the first stealthy, supersonic
jet that can slow nearly to
Joint Direct Attack Munition
GPS-guided bombs and two
AMRAAM air-to-air missiles;
A driver’s license that foils forgers. that on radar, the F-35B is roughly the size of a golf ball. SENSORS The Electro-
Optical Distributed Aperture
System can track threats in
62 THE Wii’S WILD CONTROLLER INTAKE This so-called diverterless supersonic inlet, which slows airflow to subsonic speeds 360 degrees and enhances the
before it enters the engine, eliminates many moving parts formerly used for the same function. pilot’s field of view.
RADAR The Active Electronically
Scanned Array radar uses hundreds
Swing like Tiger, thanks to accelerometers. WEAPONS AMRAAM of transmitters and receivers to track
ILLUSTRATION: NICK
64 SWAT’S NEW GUN Although the F-35B can land vertically, it needs a running
start—as little as 300 feet—to take off. It begins its takeoff
roll with the main engine pointing back. At a paltry 80 knots,
4. Turn the page to see how
the F-35B lands vertically
Inside a 900-round-per-minute rifle. the engine nozzle and lift-fan exhausts all swing halfway
down to give the plane vertical lift and send it airborne.
IN MOTION The standard F-35
during a January test flight
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popsci INNOVATOR
66 THE MEMORY HACKER
Neuroscientist Ted Berger sees the brain as a
giant computer—and he thinks he knows how
to upgrade it. By Stephen Handelman
UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE
72 STUDIES SUGGEST HEADLINES ARE
BAD FOR YOU Red wine stops aging? Chocolate
beats broccoli? Don’t go on a binge until you find out
what’s really behind health claims. By Jason Daley
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31 SPACE TOURISM
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Start packing—flights to zero G take off soon.
32 ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Shark-inspired fins harness wave power.
37 SHRINKAGE
D
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A hair-thin camera films your guts in high-def.
38 WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA?
A car salesman peddles an oil-free future.
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It’s a fight to the death as human cells battle bacteria
On the front line of the nasty struggle between our immune system and foreign bacteria are neutrophils, the
most abundant type of white blood cell. The crucial role that these cells play in destroying invading pathogens
has been known for years, but only recently did scientists discover the secret weapon shown here: bacteria-
trapping NETs—neutrophil extracellular traps—made of enzymes and DNA. Researchers at the Max Planck
Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin have determined that NETs are catapulted out of dead or dying neutro-
phils to capture, disarm, and eventually kill bacteria [the orange organisms in this photo]. “To mobilize the DNA
and extrude it to catch and kill microbes is a very powerful way to fulfill the neutrophils’ protective role, even
after their death,” explains Volker Brinkmann, a study leader. Call them the body’s kamikaze fighters.
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The Connect is the first MP3
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Clean hard-to-
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Be your own housesitter. The Wi-Fi chip in this robot lets you roofs—with this
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Impact drivers produce more
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This 2.2-pounder—the lightest
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A marine VHF radio doesn’t
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Aspiring music pro-
ducers and DJs now have
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THE
FLASH-FORWARD
One simple change makes this
ultra-mobile PC quicker, more
TRAP MAPPER
Next time you pass a state
trooper, mark the spot on
this radar detector. A GPS
chip inside alerts you when
you near the area again. Flag
chronic false-alert locales,
and stray beeps disappear.
Escort Passport 9500i
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Built for the urban wild.
THE RIDGELINE
WHAT ’S NEW | GADGETS
TESTED
SMART SURFERS
Many cellphones connect to the Web. Using these two systems makes it enjoyable
THE PROBLEM WITH USING the Internet on your mobile the fastest connections. The best cellphones for surfing the Web
phone is that the Internet was not made for your mobile phone. have operating systems that are selective about accessing data,
Web pages are usually 800 pixels wide (you’ve got an awesome downloading only what you need and displaying it neatly on small
handset if its screen is half that size), and they’re packed with screens. We tried two new phone systems to see how they sped up
bandwidth-hungry graphics and animations that bog down all but the mobile Web.—Joe Brown
SYSTEM: SYSTEM:
SERIES 60, CELLTOP
THIRD EDITION TESTED ON:
TESTED ON: Nokia Samsung SCH-u520
N80 Internet Edition ($50 with contract;
($500; nokia.com) alltelwireless.com)
AVAILABLE ON: ALSO AVAILABLE
Nokia E- and N- ON: LG AX245,
Series phones Motorola Razr V3m,
WHAT IT DOES: Samsung SCH-u420
A dedicated search WHAT IT DOES:
program lets you CellTop lets you
query Google or access oft-viewed
Yahoo without content without
opening a Web opening a browser.
browser, and the Half-screen win-
included open- dows (“cells”)
source browser contain sports
loads only the sec- scores, stocks,
tion of page visible weather, headlines
on the phone’s and more—con-
screen. Upload pho- tinuously updated
tos snapped with over the high-speed
the three-megapixel EV-DO network.
camera directly to THE VERDICT:
your Flickr account. We could quickly
THE VERDICT: browse through
Flawless. The N80 the cells and click
uses the slowish the “OK” button
EDGE data net- for more detail. But
work, but we barely we were frustrated
noticed. E-mail by the sparse initial
fetched just the offerings. More cells
message headers are in the works,
first to save time, though, including
and the search common e-mail
function spared us services and a menu
Google ads and the of podcasts. (Please,
like. For heavier surf oh please, make a
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Experience six times the resolution of regular DVDs* and up to 7.1 channels of high-resolution audio.
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WHAT ’S NEW | GADGETS
COMING
SOON
CUTTING THE
LAST CORD
Two new technologies let you wirelessly charge your gadgets
IS A CELLPHONE really “wireless” if you have to plug it in every day? And how far
can you roam with a laptop if you’re dragging a power cable behind you? Several
companies recently unveiled technologies that finally untether your gadgets and
deliver juice through the air. Here are two promising candidates.—Andrew Br andt
In related news . . .
ALTHOUGH YOU CAN’T yet power your TV wirelessly, you
can lose the rest of the cords. Wireless HDMI, from Tzero and
Philips, uses ultra-wideband radio waves to transmit audio
and uncompressed high-definition video about 25 feet at three
gigabits per second. That’s enough for 1080p, the highest-
definition format, used in Blu-ray and HD-DVD movies. The
Philips Wireless HDMI transmitter-receiver pair shown here
will sell in late summer for about $400 (not much more than
an extra-long HDMI cable). Attach one to your cable box or
DVD player and the other to the back of your set. A competing
CHARGING UP CLOSE system, Wireless High Definition Interface, uses specially
Devices that are charged by tuned Wi-Fi and can send 1080p video at least 100 feet. That
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Plugs inside the
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TECH
TREND
THE OTHER CABLE TV
New Internet video services provide more options for demanding couch potatoes
THE WEB-READY TV
Starting this summer, Sony will deliver
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free Internet video through an optional
box mounted on the back of its high-end
Bravia sets. Announced pickings are slim
—mostly video from AOL, Yahoo and
Grouper, plus movie trailers and music
videos—but the entertainment giant could
expand its offerings if the service is a hit.
Although the adapter has no storage, Sony
says the box can stream HD content live
without hiccups. Sony Bravia Internet TV
Price not set; sony.com
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WHAT’S
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DEEP STORAGE
Holographic drives can archive dozens of high-def
movies or a monstrous music collection on a single disc
SO BLU-RAY DVDS can hold 50 giga- surface and on a layer below its surface, a at least 50 years. The first commercial prod-
bytes? Big deal. A holographic disc can holographic disc packs data throughout the uct, Maxell’s 300-gigabyte discs, are meant
store 30 times as much data. Stuck in the gel at every point where two laser beams for professional archiving, such as TV sta-
lab for decades, the mother of all memory cross. And it’s fast: A single laser pulse tions need. Expect consumer versions in
is finally available, thanks to a gel-like etches one million bits, for a write speed two to three years. By 2010, discs will hold
film developed by InPhase Technologies. nearly four times that of Blu-ray disc drives. 1.6 terabytes and may eventually reach 100
Whereas a DVD holds information on its Plus, the new gel is durable enough to last terabytes.—Lauren Aaronson
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A power generator Lotus’s 155mph A cellphone that
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SPACE TOURISM
UP AND AWAY
In the latest bid to rocket tourists into orbit,
the secretive Blue Origin unveils a flying pod.
Is your space voyage sooner than you think?
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get too fierce [1], the BioWave automatically shifts to safe mode and lies flat on the Gradatim ferociter. Roughly: “Step by step,
seabed [2] so that waves pass over it harmlessly, like a surfer ducking a swell. ferociously.”—Michael Stroh
THINK SPORTS look amazing in high snake into the body. Tearney’s scope, in
definition? Forget about Derek Jeter’s hair contrast, is a single fiber-optic cable no
follicles—wait until you see the inside of bigger than the width of a human hair,
your esophagus, courtesy of the world’s so in many cases it can be administered
first high-def miniature 3-D endoscope. without anesthesia.
It captures images of tumors and other Increased patient comfort aside,
diseases in unprecedented detail and the probe’s biggest advantage is its
perspective, an innovation that may help high-quality 3-D views. It illuminates sur-
physicians spot trouble they would other- rounding tissue with a rainbow of colors,
wise have missed. using different wavelengths of light to
Inventor Guillermo Tearney, a physi- more fully capture uneven surface areas.
cian at Massachusetts General Hospital A spectrometer records the intensity of
in Boston, says, “It’s particularly use- the light as it reflects off the tissue, and
ful in any place where size matters,” an imaging device renders the data into a
such as the brain, heart and spine, and crisp 3-D snapshot. The whole procedure
in fetuses, where traditional imaging can take less than five minutes. It’s affordable. The fun of
devices are too big to safely go. Tearney plans to begin human tri- boating starts at less than
Most endoscopes consist of a bundle als by the end of the year and hopes to $10,000, and boats bought
of fiber-optic cables about a centimeter make the device available at local hospi-
from a dealership can be
in width that can damage tissue as they tals within a few years.—Nicole Dyer
easily financed.
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HE ADLINES
makes him feel less like “the stereotype pint-size Brazilian import that will be Q: What about those of us who want
car salesman with plaid pants and the nation’s first commercial car to run more than a short-range cruiser?
a white belt.” The country’s largest on 100 percent ethanol, followed by a A: We’ve partnered with Lotus
TIMOTHY
retailer of electric vehicles—90,000 Lotus Engineering electric SUV that will Engineering to introduce an entire
FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN HELP YOUR CHILDREN BECOME AN ARMY OFFICER.
ARMY ROTC ®
HE ADLINES
line of green but very advanced just put a few quarters in a station and BURNING RUBBER,
vehicles. One is an electric SUV called
the ZAP-X that we expect to sell in the
start refueling. The Xebra takes four
hours to recharge, but the ZAP-X comes
SAVING FOSSIL FUEL
$60,000 range next year [see “Burning standard with a new fast-charging
Rubber, Saving Fossil Fuel,” right]. Its lithium battery. Plug it in, and 10 FOR DRIVERS prepared to forgo
all-aluminum frame allows us to add minutes later you’re on your way. gasoline but not legroom or power, ZAP
additional batteries that give it a 350-mile is partnering with Lotus Engineering to
range, a penny-a-mile operational cost, Q: Will it kill your electric bill? deliver the first all-electric road-ready
155mph capability, touchscreen controls, A: No, because it costs about a dollar to SUV. Called ZAP-X and slated to hit the
and all-biometric entry and ignition. refuel the Xebra, and roughly $3.50 for ZAP showroom next year, the vehicle
the ZAP-X. will feature a number of surprising
Q: Where will we charge up? performance perks. For starters, in-
A: In the early stages, people will Q: So from the Xebra to the ZAP-X, is hub electric motors, which manage the
just plug in at work, restaurants, your basic idea to have an alternative- torque at each wheel, will replace a
their homes. Costco and Wal-Mart fuel car for all consumers, except central engine to deliver a staggering
already have outlets available. The maybe the Hummer-lovers? 644 horsepower and enable a top
infrastructure will change so you’ll A: Even the Hummer driver. speed of 155 mph. That’s more than
25 miles an hour faster than the new,
Lotus-built electric Tesla Roadster. The
SUV will also feature the longest range
THE ZAP-X WON’T KILL YOUR of any electric vehicle—350 miles on
a single charge—thanks to computer-
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having your cake and eating it too won’t
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is roughly $60,000.—dakin camPbell
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UV RAYS CELLPHONE MR. PREPARED
CELLPHONES DON’T OFFER much shade on a bright day. But in service would tell you, through a text message or audio alert, when
December, Philips Electronics filed a patent on a system that would to sunbathe, when to seek shade and how long your sunscreen
allow the devices to help prevent sunburns and skin cancer. The will stay effective, all based on information about your location
plan integrates information about a cellular customer’s location and skin tone and the type of lotion being used. “With the health
with real-time local data about how much ultraviolet radiation—the importance of avoiding sunburns, this struck me as a positive appli-
component of sunlight that can harm skin—is hitting the area, as cation,” says George Marmaropoulos, the Philips designer who
measured by the National Weather Service or yet-to-be-installed invented the scheme. The company needs to find partners, but the
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FRIED FISH Warmer oceans 30-SECOND SCIENCE
could mean fewer fish in the
sea—and pricier seafood.
1 PALTRY PLANKTON
Using a decade’s worth
of satellite data, scientists
2 GASPING FOR AIR
German scientists
have found that eelpouts
3 HEAT MISERS
Jellyfish will actually
thrive in warmer oceans—
have determined that rising (elongated fish with eel-like bad news for dozens of fish
ocean temperatures are kill- heads) require more oxygen species, says biologist Martin
ing phytoplankton. Not only to perform basic functions Attrill of the University of
do these tiny plants form the as water temperatures Plymouth in England. Attrill
base of oceanic food webs, increase—a big problem has analyzed 50 years’ worth
they also process as much because warmer waters of data from the North Sea
carbon dioxide and produce contain less oxygen. Despite and found that jellyfish are
as much oxygen as land eelpouts’ better-than- more prevalent in warm-
plants do. Although the find- average tolerance of thermal water years. As seas con-
ings may be influenced by El fluctuations, their popula- tinue to heat up, this could
Niño, the researchers say the tion decrease in the North pose trouble for cod, salmon
the study provides a sneak Sea has coincided with rising and other commercial fish:
peek at how ocean biology temperatures. Less-hardy fish Jellyfish not only outcompete
will evolve as the climate such as Atlantic cod are suf- fish larvae for food but eat
continues to change. fering similar effects. them too.—Bjorn Carey
ADVANCED slow, hard to fly and not stealthy. The F-35B lets Marines
launch missions from small ships instead of Navy carriers.
FIGHTER
page to see inside it].
INTAKE This so-called diverterless supersonic inlet, which slows airflow to subsonic speeds
before it enters the engine, eliminates many moving parts formerly used for the same function.
COURTESY LOCKHEED MARTIN
KALOTERAKIS; PHOTOGRAPH:
Lockheed Martin
f-35B Lightning II
SIZE: Length, 51 ft.; span, 35 ft.
WEIGHT: 55,000 lbs.
COCKPIT The flight COST: $110 million each
controls automatically MAX. SPEED: 990 mph
change function as the CRUISING SPEED: 600 mph
plane begins to land RANGE: 450 nautical miles
vertically. A helmet- FORWARD THRUST: 43,000 lb.-ft.
mounted display VERTICAL THRUST: 15,700
tracks objects wher- lb.-ft. from the main engine,
ever the pilot looks. 20,000 lb.-ft. from the lift
fan, and 3,700 lb.-ft. from
roll posts under the wings
WEAPONS: Two 1,000-lb.
Joint Direct Attack Munition
GPS-guided bombs and two
AMRAAM air-to-air missiles;
25mm four-barrel Gatling cannon
MIN. TAKEOFF DISTANCE: 300 ft.
LANDING DISTANCE: 0 ft.
MORE INFO: jsf.mil
DESIGNING A SUPERSONIC short-takeoff/vertical-landing down—and, by the way, the engine has to steer and stabilize
(STOVL) jet has stumped aviation engineers for decades. the airplane, because the regular flaps and controls also stop
First you have to give the airplane enough thrust to over- working when it’s not moving. And all this has to happen in
come its weight, since wings generate no lift at a dead stop. midair. Here’s how the F-35B—engine by Pratt & Whitney
Then you have to bend the thrust so that it points straight and lift system by Rolls-Royce—does it.—bill sweetman
Lift fan
Gearbox
Clutch
Driveshaft
NICK KALOTERAKIS
F-35B LIGHTNING II
Deflector
vanes
Inlet guide
vanes Fan blades Compressor Combustor Turbine Swivel duct Exhaust nozzle
HANG TIME
For the F-35B to JET ENGINES 101
hover in midair, Jet engines use a simple sequence to create thrust: suck, Fan Turbine
its fan nozzle and squeeze, burn, blow. Several fans at the front of the engine
lift fan are per- suck air in. “Primary” air enters the heart of the engine,
fectly positioned while “bypass” air accelerates around the core. Smaller fans
to balance the then squeeze the primary air, increasing its temperature
downward thrust and pressure. A combustor adds and burns fuel to make the
around its center compressed air even hotter. That superheated stream of air
of gravity. The roll shoots through a turbine, spinning it to keep the compressor
posts add another and fan at the front moving. When the primary and bypass air
axis of control. merge behind the turbine, the air accelerates as it’s blown Compressor Combustor
through the narrow exhaust nozzle, producing thrust.
POPSCI.COM POPULAR SCIENCE 51
THE PHONE
THAT TOUCHES
YOU BACK
Hitting virtual keys on the screens
of next-generation cellphones will
feel just like pressing real buttons.
The secret: a motor like the one that
vibrates your phone today—and a
little mind trick BY SARAH Z. WEXLER
the details
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HOW IT VIBRATES FAKING THE FEEL OF BUTTONS
ALL CELLPHONES shake when a small weight 1. TOUCH THE SCREEN
somewhere inside them moves vigorously. Most An ultrathin layer of electrically conductive material coats the touchscreen, so
vibrate at only one speed, but newer phones, when you press down on the image of a button onscreen, your finger causes
such as the Samsung model shown here, use a a change in the electrical current, a process known as resistive technology. This
more precise system in which the rate and inten- prompts software to send motor-control instructions to a chip inside the phone.
sity of the vibration can be quickly changed.
2. SET IT ABUZZ
On typical phones, the vibration is either on or off, but this chip allows the
THE OLD WAY motor to receive positive or negative current (producing forward or backward
An electric current spin) at specific voltages and intervals. This means it can ramp up or down pre-
spins a motor with cisely enough to produce a quick staccato movement that feels like the click of
an off-center weight
a physical button, what’s called “haptic feedback.” (It can also vibrate along to
on the shaft up to
a thumping bass line in a song or the soft patter of raindrops in a game.)
USING SIEMENS DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY
OTHER USES
FOR HAPTIC
FEEDBACK
GAMING
Controllers for Playstations, Xboxes and
arcade games use two motors (one
Touchscreen large and one small) to produce a wide
range of sensations, such as the feel of
gravel when you drive off the road.
MEDICAL TRAINING
Immersion also makes a kind of
advanced version of the game Operation
that gives practicing surgeons feedback
identical to actual surgery, down to the
jelly-like feel of the gastrointestinal wall.
The system relies on what’s called force
feedback, which uses haptic motors, plus
magnets and springs, to give the sensa-
tion of resistance instead of vibration.
the details
SONAR BEACON conveys the trencher’s location
Water jets
A total of 96 nozzles cut into the seafloor by To bury the cable, water jets weaken
shooting water from jets at 200 psi—three the top and bottom of the trench,
times the pressure of your shower head. creating a mini avalanche.
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Tomorrow’s digital cameras
will shoot the same scene from
dozens of perspectives at once,
creating a three-dimensional
image that lets you choose the
focus later BY JONATHON KEATS
the details
STANDARD CAMERAS gather light through a single cen- 1. TAKE SEVERAL SHOTS AT ONCE
tral lens and project it onto a sensor, making a fl at picture With multiple eyes—Adobe’s prototype has 19—the light-field
with only one focal point per image. Humans, on the other camera is even more perceptive. Each of its lenses is faced
hand, view objects from two perspectives at once (called with a prism set at a unique angle, so it can take 19 pictures
binocular vision), so we’re sensitive not only to the location simultaneously, with each capturing a different part of the
of light rays but also to their angle. This lets us see the full scene in focus. Each image uses a piece of the sensor, so a
depth of what’s in front of us and choose where to focus. 100-megapixel camera will yield 19 5.2-megapixel shots.
DIGITAL WATERMARKING Feds or bouncers can but will reveal statistics about the image readable
screen out phonies by verifying that license photos by a scanner (which can be as simple as a PDA with
are genuine. The best tool for doing this is covert a camera running special software). For example,
digital watermarking. License-makers create several the photo’s colors could be altered slightly so that a
slight alterations to the photo while it’s still in digital specific value of color showed up a specific number
form. That adds a layer of data to the portrait that, of times. If the scanner doesn’t see the correct pat- EXAGGERATED
when printed, will be imperceptible to the human eye tern in the watermark, it flags the ID as suspect. WATERMARK
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SILICON PLATES DISTANCE traveled
pick up voltage is measured by the
from the weight change in voltage
the details
1. THE SETUP 2. THE SWING 3. THE PHYSICS 4. THE ACE
An accelerometer consists of As you move your arm, the A basic law—force divided The controller wirelessly
a silicon weight—less than weight slides to one side, by mass—yields the accelera- sends data about your move-
one millionth of a gram— increasing the voltage at the tion. The force depends on the ment to the main console,
connected to a chip by minus- nearer plates. The accelerom- distance the weight moves which compares your actions
cule springs. When you hold eter measures this change in and the stiffness of the springs with a database of pos-
the controller still, the weight voltage and uses it to calculate holding it. With weights that sible swings. If you swing
sits equidistant between sets of the distance the weight has shift up and down, left and smoothly with a straight fol-
silicon plates. A current run- traveled—a matter of no more right, and back and forth, the low-through, it corresponds
ning through the weight sends than five nanometers (a hair is accelerometer measures move- to a perfect shot, and you’re
equal voltages to all plates. around 200 nanometers wide). ment in three dimensions. headed for a hole-in-one.
WASHING MACHINES
To spin efficiently
and rumble-free,
some washers assess
vibration with an accel-
erometer near the
motor. The machine
will opt for the speed that pro-
duces the fewest shudders.
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LAPTOPS
If a hard drive’s writing
arm scratches the plat-
ter that holds data, the
drive is toast. In many
new laptops, an accel-
erometer detects a fall and tells
the hard disk to park its arm
safely in non-write mode before
the computer hits the ground.
CAMERAS
Image stabilization
SPEAKER relies on accelerom-
eters near the lenses to
sense side-to-side and
up-and-down jiggles.
A motor in the lens array shifts
the image in the opposite direc-
tion to counteract shakes.
PEDOMETERS
An accelerom-
eter attached to a
shoe measures the
forward distance
covered with each
step, marked by the up-and-
down movement of your leg.
By adding up the strides, it
computes your total distance.
NUNCHUCK, a secondary controller, CONTROLLER, with accelerometer
also uses an accelerometer on the back side of the board
BOLT CARRIER
includes a charg-
ing handle that
chambers
the first round of
a new magazine
Hammer
the details
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MONTH 2007
2007
Barrel
WHAT’S UNIQUE
Gas tube
ABOUT THE SIG?
The SIG is one of the few rifles
in the world with a gas piston
Recoil spring system, which prevents debris
from low-quality ammunition or
Operating rod the environment from getting
into the receiver assembly. Its
adjustable valve increases gas
pressure in the system, which
also helps to clear debris.
5. The gas pushes the 6. As the bolt carrier moves 7. A recoil spring in the gas 8. If the rifle has a fully
operating rod rearward, backward, the extractor tube brings the operating automatic mode—civilian
which in turn forces the locks onto the rim of the rod back to its firing position, target-shooting versions do
bolt carrier backward. spent cartridge and pulls driving the bolt back. The not—a single squeeze of the
This rotates and unlocks it against the ejector (a bolt pushes another bullet trigger allows this process
the bolt head from the small protrusion inside the from the magazine and slides to repeat uninterrupted, at
receiver so the spent car- receiver), which hurls the it into place for the next up to 900 rounds a minute,
tridge can be ejected and case out of the receiver. shot. A cam rotates the bolt until the bullets are gone.
replaced with a fresh round. The same rearward motion head to lock and seal the
also recocks the hammer. cartridge in the chamber.
THE
MEMORY
HACKER By STEPHEN HANDelMAN
photographs by john b. carnett
Ted Berger has spent the past decade engineering a brain implant that can
re-create thoughts. The chip could remedy everything from Alzheimer’s to absent-
mindedness—and reduce memory loss to nothing more than a computer glitch
I
N WET LAB 412C on the Uni- boards and computer chips. The place waves shimmers across a nearby
versity of Southern California’s looks more like a computer-repair screen—waves that mean exactly
Los Angeles campus, Vijay shop than a world-class laboratory. zilch to me. Watch what? I wonder.
Srinivasan is poking a long, evil- “Watch this,” says Srinivasan, Srinivasan explains that the chip
looking needle at a slice of rat brain a design engineer working with is sending electric pulses through the
about half the size of a fingernail. USC’s Center for Neural Engineer- needle into the brain slice, which is
All around him, coils of cable are ing. A thin wire runs between the passing them on to the screen we’re
piled near hulking microscopes. Glass needle and a tiny silicon chip hooked watching. “The difference in the
vials and fluid-filled plastic dishes up to a boxy signal transmitter. He waves’ modulation reflects the signals
compete for space with spare key- flips a switch, and a series of small sent out by the brain slice,” he
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Prefrontal lobe Sensory area cells would change the lives of mil-
lions of Americans who suffer from
Visual area brain disease, and offer relief to the
families that care for them. In 1999,
that possibility became personally
significant for Berger. At a time when
he was keynoting conferences around
the world, his mother suffered a stroke
and developed strange neurological
symptoms typical of hippocampal
damage. “She didn’t speak, but she
could laugh and sing,” recalls Berger,
who grew up in Poughkeepsie, New
York, the son of an electrical-engineer
father. His mother’s illness and result-
ing death in 2005 had a profound and
grounding influence on his work. “It
suddenly made my research more than
just a cool laboratory problem to solve,”
Berger says. “Instead of just think-
Corpus callosum
ing about [the brain chip] as solving
Auditory area
one of the great puzzles of neurosci-
ence, I now think mostly in terms of
Hippocampus increasing the quality of life for stroke,
epilepsy and dementia patients.”
Today an estimated 4.5 million
MOST SCIENTISTS REGARDED THE Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s,
at an annual cost of some $100 bil-
BRAIN AS A POORLY UNDERSTOOD lion, according to the Alzheimer’s
Association and the National Institute
SWAMP OF BIOCHEMICAL SIGNALS. on Aging. “And those figures are just
BERGER SET OUT TO REDUCE HIGHER going to climb as my generation gets
older,” says Berger, who can rattle off
COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS TO A SIMPLE the grim statistics from Alzheimer’s
SET OF MATHEMATICAL EQUATIONS. and other brain disorders that disturb
memory. Another 5.3 million Ameri-
cans are victims of traumatic brain
vard graduate student in physiological largely regarded the brain as a poorly injuries, which can trigger a variety
psychology in the 1970s, he published a understood swamp of biochemical of neurological dysfunctions affecting
now-classic study of eye-blinking in the interactions. Berger, however, set out the hippocampus, including memory
prestigious journal Science that estab- to reduce higher cognitive functions loss, epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease.
lished him as an oddball wunderkind to a set of mathematical equations Where Berger once had difficulty
in the competitive field of neuroscience. based on how neurons responded attracting research partners, his recent
By the time he earned his Ph.D. in 1976, to various stimuli—equations that triumphs in the laboratory, coupled
at the age of 26, he had accumulated could then be coded into some form with the emerging medical potential of
10 papers and an award from the New of prosthetic device. Even in casual his work, have put him front and cen-
York Academy of Sciences. But as he conversation, Berger seems eager to ter. He now heads a National Science
ascended the ranks of academia, he demystify the brain. “Its cells are noth- Foundation review panel on neuro-
grew increasingly restless with the ing but leaky bags of salt solution, 20 prosthetics. As the leader of a national
accepted wisdom of his colleagues. microns in diameter,” he says, laughing. project investigating the brain-comput-
“The idea was that you could solve But beyond his professional ambi- er connection, he has attracted some of
every brain problem with a drug or tion, it’s the medical and therapeutic the country’s most prominent scientists
surgery,” Berger remembers. He began potential of neural chips that has most to his 65-member team. One of USC’s
to chart a different path in the 1980s. inspired Berger’s singular vision. A top biomedical engineers, Vasilis Mar-
At the time, most neuroscientists machine able to revitalize memory marelis, developed the modeling theory
Brain chip
for his chip, now being road-tested at convert the electronic signals coming ity, the message of which depends
the university’s Los Angeles labs, where from the brain (“I want to move this on the time and frequency of their
Berger directs the Center for Neural hand”) into motor activity by using firing. These spatiotemporal pat-
Engineering. And Sam Deadwyler, a algorithms embedded in a software terns allow us to, for instance, gauge
national expert on pharmacology, will chip. “The possibilities are limitless,” the distance between objects in a
test the chip on the brains of live rats says Elizabeth Razee of Cyberkinetics room and navigate around them.
later this year at Wake Forest Univer- Neurotechnology Systems, a firm in Measuring these patterns, and
sity. Berger is no longer on the fringe. Foxborough, Massachusetts, that hopes programming the results in terms that
to bring BrainGate to market by 2009. a computer chip can understand, is
MELDING MIND AND MACHINE Cyberkinetics’s work bears some what occupies John Granacki, a spe-
Scientists’ increasing ability to map similarity to Berger’s. Both convert cialist in circuitry and part of Berger’s
the basic structure of the brain has brain signals into code that can be interdisciplinary research team at the
already produced a handful of machine interpreted and translated by a comput- ISI in Marina del Ray. In the elevator
implants that can compensate for er. But Berger has set himself the more on the way up to Granacki’s office,
damaged sensory systems. The arti- difficult challenge. BrainGate offers Berger boasts, “These people are
ficial cochlea, for instance, has given a one-way link between mind and really cutting-edge. They’re the ones
hearing to the deaf, and artificial machine: The user can talk to a com- who invented the Internet.” (Actu-
retinas are now in patient trials. puter but not vice versa. Berger’s brain ally, as Granacki later explains to me,
But the most dramatic achievement chip operates in two directions, func- they hosted the West Coast sector of
in humans so far is a neurosensor tioning as a bridge over damaged cells. Arpanet—the academic proto-Web
under development by brain researcher The challenge of mathematically —in the 1970s, but close enough.)
John Donoghue and his colleagues at mimicking brain function—and the When we meet Granacki, he’s clad
Brown University. When placed over internal language it uses to com- in chinos and a starched button-down
the brain’s motor-cortex area, the sensor municate concepts like emotion and shirt. Rectangular, rimless glasses
enables quadriplegics to open and close memory—is complicated by the fact slide down his nose. No sooner do we
a prosthetic hand merely by think- that brain cells converse in a sort of sit down than he and Berger begin
ing about doing it. This technology, secret electrical code. One cell “talks” talking shop about chip production
called BrainGate, allows the machine to to another through pulses of electric- schedules and new math models.
Hippocampal tissue
Brain signal
3 Damaged region
IS GUINNESS GOOD
FOR YOU? If you
want to treat your
heart well, go to
the gym, not a bar.
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benefits the study found in chocolate—
high-cocoa-content dark chocolate, by the
way, not the sugary candy-aisle variety—
were extrapolated from short-term trials.
Long-term, randomized trials are needed to
confirm the connection to a healthy heart.
THE WAY TO A
GIRL’S HEART?
Chocolate’s good
THE BOTTOM LINE Enjoy chocolate in
qualities may moderation, but don’t imagine that it’s a
extend beyond health food the way green leafy veggies are.
the romantic.
ARE YOU
DRINKING
ENOUGH COFFEE?
GET HEALTH UP
VIDEO GAMES FILL TO SPEED
Super Smash Brothers and other Nintendo
PSYCHOLOGICAL 64 games and discovered that, at least in The Commercial Appeal (Memphis,
the short term, games could give players Tenn.), October 9, 2006
NEED a sense of accomplishment and improve
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CBC News (Canada), Risk of Type 2 Diabetes,” Journal of the
December 27, 2006 THE SUBTLER TRUTH Those good feel- American Medical Association, 2005
ings, as the researchers wrote, are “the
THE STUDY “The Motivational Pull of same basic motivators that other forms of THE HYPED FINDINGS This Harvard analy-
Video Games: A Self-Determination entertainment, such as sports, contain.” sis of 15 studies concluded that coffee can
Theory Approach,” Motivation Plus, the games caused fatigue, or “reduced slash the risk of Type 2 diabetes by a third.
and Emotion, 2006 vitality.” The study’s summary: “It may be
premature to conclude that computer gaming THE SUBTLER TRUTH Two mugs a
THE HYPED FINDINGS In this study, is negatively related to well-being”—in other day don’t cut it. The full benefit requires
researchers at the University of Rochester words, we’re not yet sure that they’re bad. six or seven cups (decaf works too).
tried to determine how videogames affect
players’ feelings of well-being, self-esteem THE BOTTOM LINE Videogames may THE BOTTOM LINE Common sense
and satisfaction. To that end, they asked 200 give a temporary self-esteem boost, but rules: overdosing on caffeine isn’t the
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Build an old-school Make better use of Clean the floor with a
arcade table your Zune MP3 player radio-controlled car
REACTION SHOT
Thiago Olson with
his home-built
nuclear reactor.
YOU
BUILT
what
KID
?!
FUSION
One high-school student’s
successful quest to create
atomic energy, just for kicks
3. Colliding particles fuse to THE CORE The reactor’s Olson has turned to an even bigger
form helium-3. The resulting central chamber [right], challenge: college applications.
neutron emission is measured, where fusion happens
—Gregory Mone
proving that fusion occurred.
buildIT
GAME ON
Free software lets any computer play hundreds of classic arcade games. So we
loaded up an old PC and built a heavy-duty, tricked-out arcade table around it
DIG DUG, Kung Fu, Ms. Pac-Man. As creator could be illegal. Fortunately, some gaming table [above and facing page], a
nostalgia-inducing as the smell of Mom’s companies now sell packs of legal ROMs, perforated-steel work of alien-blasting
cookies, the games that swallowed all your offering a dozen or more games for $20 art mounted on a set of 40-pound-bolt
quarters as a kid are still out there, eas- and up. There are versions of MAME for legs. Send us a picture of your creation
ily and cheaply played on any computer, any computer system (and even smart- at [email protected], and we’ll publish
thanks to a program known as Multiple phones and PDAs), so you can simply the best on popsci.com.—mike haney
Arcade Machine Emulator, or MAME. This play at your desk using your keyboard.
application, which simulates the circuitry But for the real experience, you need a WANT MORE GAMES?
inside the old arcade games, lets your full-blown rig, complete with joysticks and
computer load just about any classic game buttons that can take a beating. It’s easy to
file. A quick search will turn up hundreds assemble and build one on your own [see MAME ISN’T THE ONLY emulator out
there. You can simulate just about any
JOHN B. CARNETT
of these ROMs, as they’re called, on parts list, facing page]. Get a head start at
computer system or gaming console
Web sites and in newsgroups, but since arcadeinabox.com, where you can buy kits,
ever made, from Atari 2600 (Pitfall!,
many are still copyrighted, download- premade cabinets or just the basic plans. anyone?) to XBox. Check out emulator-
ing them from anyone other than their We used the plans as a guide for the POPSCI zone.com for more info.
B F
1 MAKE IT AN iPOD
Turn your Nintendo DS into a four-
gigabyte impostor ’Pod with code
from forum.gbadev.org. The software
turns the DS’s touchscreen into an
iPod-like touch-wheel; track listings
and other menus scroll on the top
A screen. Listen through the built-in
D speakers or the headphone jack.
E
2 REPLACE YOUR MOUSE
With the right software and a bit of
scripting, the Nintendo Wii’s motion-
sensitive controller (the “Wiimote”)
4 GIVE YOUR PC HD
F. 40-gigabyte hard drive eight buttons, depending on the
(free; salvaged) games you plan to play.
G. Two Ultimate Joysticks ($11.25 4. Solder wires from the controls Play those new HD-DVD movies on
each; www.happcontrols.com) with to the connections on the I-PAC your already HD-capable computer
SlikStik illuminated replacement control interface. Plug the I-PAC
monitor by plucking the HD-DVD drive
handles ($30 each; slikstik.com) into a USB port on the computer.
5. Go to mame.net to download from Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and drop-
H. Illuminated pushbuttons
($6.60 each; www.happcontrols.com) a version of MAME for your ping it into a PC. Uneasysilence.com
I. One- and two-player buttons operating system. walks you through the minor surgery,
($2.40 each; www.happcontrols.com) 6. Buy a pack of legal game ROMs which, though not as easy as buying
J. Start buttons (91¢ each; from arcadeinabox.com. an off-the-shelf player, is cheaper.
www.happcontrols.com) 7. Relive the glory.
5 GRILL STEAKS
The PlayStation 3 looks uncannily like
a George Foreman grill. So hackers at
therealps3grill.com turned the resem-
blance into reality, swapping Cell chips
for heating coils. Mortal Kombat fans
be warned: The culinary conversion
completely torches your console’s abil-
STURDY BOX The enclosure’s frame is made from one-inch channel steel. ity to run games.—Eric Mika
The legs are 40-pound, three-inch bolts with nuts that turn to level the table.
HACKING 1. Buy an
80-gigabyte Tosh-
iba drive ($160;
as a USB drive out
of the box.
1. Install .NET
after three plays.
1. To avoid this, do
the storage trick
YOUTUBE
Use the Internet
Explorer add-on
ZuneMyTube
THE ZUNE
A few tweaks can turn
welovemacs.com)
or harvest an iPod’s.
2. Open the Zune
(see ipodmods
Framework 2.0
from microsoft.com.
2. Download the
ZuneHDPatch at
[left], then change
the song files’
extension to .jpg.
Place the files, along
(tinyurl.com/
y2oomb) to
download videos
.com for directions). cppworld.com/ with a real image automatically.
Microsoft’s MP3 player into the FREE UP
Remove the bat- Zune/ZuneHDPatch file, into a new
device it was supposed to be YOUR MUSIC
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HOW 2.0
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TECH SHOOTING STARS
Add a camera to your scope for cheap astrophotography
Heat sink
AA battery
holder Nine-volt battery
16 hours $18.37
easy hard
! H2WHOA! Before opening any camera,
remove its battery. Avoid touching the flash ROM • MANUFACTURED IN CALIFORNIA SINCE 1990
circuit, which stores a charge for an unpredict-
able length of time. Wear rubber gloves and TIME IS IT. Over 92% of people who own perform work. It balances blood sugar, and
rubber-soled shoes, and use insulated tools. exercise equipment and 88% of people who repairs bad backs and shoulders. Too good to
own health club memberships do not exercise. be true? Get our free video and see for yourself.
A 4 minute complete workout is no longer hard The best proof for us is that 97% of rentals
1. OPEN the camera by removing the
to believe for all the people who since 1990 become sales. Please visit our website at:
screws holding the case together. Look for have bought our excellent Range of Motion www.FastExercise.com.
hidden screws under stickers and trim. machine (ROM). Over 97% of people who rent
2. FIND and release all the cables our ROM for 30 days
“ROM is the best
and plugs, and then gently pull the wind up purchasing it
case halves apart. based upon the health The typical ROM purchaser time management
benefits experienced goes through several stages: tool ever. ”
3. DISCONNECT and remove the lens during that tryout, and 1. Total disbelief that the ROM
assembly, but leave the ribbon cable the ROM performance
can do all this in only 4 minutes.
Anthony Robbins
attached to the motors. score at the end of each
2. Rhetorical (and sometimes
4 minute workout that Motivational speaker Anthony
4. ATTACH the heat sink and Peltier tells the story of health
hostile) questioning and ridicule.
junction—a device that electronically 3. Reading the ROM literature
Robbins calls the ROM a
and fitness improve- fantastic time management
draws heat away from whatever it’s next ment. At under 20 cents and reluctantly understanding it.
to—directly to the back of the camera’s cir- per use, the 4 minute 4. Taking a leap of faith and tool. He saves over an hour
cuit board with wire ties or, if it doesn’t fit, ROM exercise is the renting a ROM for 30 days. in exercise daily.
externally below the circuit board. least expensive full body 5. Being highly impressed by the
5. RELOCATE the batteries to the outside complete exercise a results and purchasing a ROM.
of the camera to further reduce heat. person can do. How do 6. Becoming a ROM enthusiast and trying to persuade friends.
we know that it is under 7. Being ignored and ridiculed by the friends who think
Just run longer wires to the old leads.
20 cents per use? Over you’ve lost your mind.
6. REMOVE the infrared filter, a piece 90% of ROM machines 8. After a year of using the ROM your friends admiring
of glass in front of the CCD. Your shots go to private homes, but your good shape.
will take on a slight pinkish tint but we have a few that are in 9. You telling them (again) that you only exercise those
should be brighter. commercial use for over 4 minutes per day.
12 years and they have
7. REASSEMBLE the camera and slip its 10. Those friends reluctantly renting the ROM for a 30 day trial.
endured over 80,000
lens barrel over your telescope’s eye- Then the above cycle repeats from point 5 on down.
uses each, without need
piece holder or focusing tube. of repair or overhaul. The The more we tell people about the ROM
ROM 4 minute workout the less they believe it.
SHOOT THE is for people from 10 to
over 100 years old and From 4 minutes on the ROM you get the same
MOON results as from 20 to 45 minutes aerobic exercise
The author’s highly trained athletes
as well. The ROM adapts (jogging, running, etc.) for cardio and respiratory
modified Konica
its resistance every benefits, plus 45 minutes weight training for muscle
takes nearly
second during the tone and strength, plus 20 minutes stretching
professional-
workout to exactly match exercise for limberness/flexibility.
grade pictures.
the user’s ability to
A DAY’S WORTH
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Meet Chumby, an open-source touchscreen Internet device that’s so
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YOU PAY BIG BUCKS for your devices, so you want regular injury reports for your fantasy
why shouldn’t you decide what they do? That’s baseball team, a reminder to TiVo the Beverly 12:45 p.m. See how your
the question behind Chumby ($150; chumby Hillbillies marathon, and status updates on your stocks are doing.
.com), a wireless Internet box developed by a eBay auctions, you can create Chumby “wid-
group of hackers weary of traditional electron- gets” to do the work, or download existing ones
ics design—bland, square gadgets like MP3 off the Web. And Chumby’s makers encourage
players restricted to a few prescribed functions. you to hack the bugger for any function—home
Powered by a 266-megahertz processor, 32 automation, GPS—you can dream up. But even
megabytes of flash memory (with an upgrade on if you don’t care to change Chumby on the
the way) and open-source software, Chumby is inside, you can always do it on the outside; its
instead a platform with the capacity to do pretty squeezable, soft suede casing is just as ready to
much anything its users decide it should. If, say, mod as its guts.—Doug Cantor 5:43 p.m. Preview your
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I was the total skeptic. Not only had I lifted weights body and a tiny “get started NOW” decision to DO a burn excess body fat a lot, lot faster. This means
and run long distance for years, but I had major success little something each day. fitting into the clothes you WANT to wear.
under my belt, including a world kung fu championship The key to your success is in the magical, transforma- 2. Packs attractive and healthy functional muscles (not
and a national collegiate wrestling title. tive power of these exercises – not in your belief system grotesque) onto your entire body
So I just didn’t want to believe what Karl, a 76- about hard work. For many people, just one rep is all 3. Simultaneously doubles your strength and flex-
year old man told me about exercising WITHOUT they can do at first, and they’re shaking like a leaf on ibility – and does so without needing separate
weights… and WITHOUT long-distance running. a windy day in Chicago. And so, that’s all that person workouts for each.
Most importantly, I didn’t want to hear that a good should do at first. Even if you think you’re not doing 4. Quadruples your endurance inside of 30 days.
exercise program only took a few minutes. Hate to enough – the exercises work their magic anyway. Your Never get tired again.
admit it, but I was addicted to the “hard work or noth- body has it’s own intelligence and will work FOR YOU 5. Within a couple weeks, it often eliminates chron-
ing” mentality and refused to believe you could get into if you’ll simply get out of the way and let it. ic back and shoulder pain from years of heavy
the best shape of your life by doing LESS… not more. When you do, pretty soon you’ll be the type of squats, deadlifts and bench pressing – or other
Let me tell you, when I looked at this so-called “old person who can do 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 or 128 repeti- forms of abuse.
man’s” physique and watched him demonstrate his tions and feel no fatigue. Instead of tiredness you’ll feel 6. Sleep like a log. Eight hours of deep sleep is no
exercises, I could not look the other way. I had to check exhilaration and ENERGY. You’re building strength longer a goal. It’s automatic. As soon as you hit the
them out for myself, even if it meant saying, “Okay, I’ve and endurance from the INSIDE-OUT. And believe rack you’re out like a light.
wasted a lot of time doing it the wrong way.” me, once you can do more than a few reps, inches of
unsightly fat and pounds of excess flab will fly off your 7. Your self-confidence will have no bounds.
What I discovered shocked me from head to toe! Especially when you got compliments from
body at break-neck speed.
Before I met Karl I THOUGHT I was strong. I people who hardly paid attention to you before.
thought I was tough. But the exercises he gave me New Results from Forgotten Exercises 8. You can train anywhere. You don’t need more than
exploited every weakness that weights and running Are the exercises in Combat Conditioning NEW? a few square feet of carpet or pavement and you’re
could not cover, In a matter of minutes, I knew Karl Well, not really. They go back about 5,000 years – but all set. You don’t need equipment. Just your own
“had me.” for the most part, they got lost in the shuffle when bodyweight.
So I gave up the weights and began a routine of weights, gadgets and gyms came around. So although 9. You get a kick-butt workout done in 15 minutes
bodyweight calisthenics called Combat Conditioning. they aren’t NEW, they’re “New to YOU!” or less.
Afterall, when a man of 76 can do things that a 36-year Before I learned these exercises, I read about the 10. You’ll turn back the clock. Friends may tell you
old cannot do, that tells you that “Yes, there’s gold in Great Gama of India, a wrestler who followed this that you look 5–10 years younger.
them there hills.” program and was unbeaten in 5,000 matches. I also 11. You’ll have an explosive type of strength that
The exercises I learned had such a profound and read that the legendary Bruce Lee did these exercises, weights cannot give you. Your every movement
dramatic effect on me, that for six years I have been too. And we all know about Lee’s incredible martial will be lively and full of vigor.
introducing men and women of all ages and of all arts skills. Then there was the All-Pro NFL running 12. Your muscles will be pliable and powerful, like a
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