Archive Gallery: The Best of What Was New
The Mars Pathfinder Rover From climate-controlled clothing to Viagra, the first 10 years of PopSci's Best Of What's New Considering I was between the ages of -2 and 8 for the first 10 installments of the Best of What's New, it's remarkable how many vivid memories I have of the 1980s' and '90s' greatest innovations. I owned and loved the computer game that let you print out clothes for your Barbies. My dad taught me the rules of hockey by watching Red Wings games with me on Fox, where infrared technology left a streak of color behind the fast-moving puck so I could follow it. And I even built and programmed a Lego Mindstorms robot at nerd camp one summer. Click here to launch the archive gallery. That's what's great about BOWN. Not only do we feature military inventions, like bombers that are invisible to radar, or ambitious research projects, like the...