Examining a metal under a microscope will lead you to notice the peaks and valleys in it – products of manufacturing and the tooling process. Elementary science tells you that gears that interact with each other (example, metal to metal) will create fiction, and ultimately heat. When you apply this idea to race car...
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Isotropic Superfinish (ISF) Metal Finishing, The Basics and Advantages
The Week In iPhone Apps: Happy MMS Day, Everyone
Let's take a second to reflect upon how far we've come, from phone owners without the near-decade-old service that people don't really use that much, to people with it. That far! In other, slightly more scheduled iPhone news: some apps!
12Mail: MMS has only been working on the iPhone for what, four hours? So, uh,...
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Giz Explains: How To Fix the Airlines’ Stupid Portable Gadget Rules
If you've flown lately, you have probably noticed that the "portable electronics" rules are increasingly muddled. It's time for the FAA and airlines to lift the electronics ban completely, or rewrite it to reflect modern gadgets.
The first problem is, nearly all electronics are lumped together, despite differences in their innards and the services they...
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The Best Damn Rally Video Ever
So Ken Block the rally driver is known for the views he scores on YouTube. So what happens when he enjoys the support of BBC’s Top Gear? A really well-edited and polished video, of something called Gymkhana, full of slow-mo goodness:
I know Block just started participating in the World Rally Championship, but why only...
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