2019-02-01_Popular_Science

44 SPRING 2019 • POPSCI.COM typography by Glenn Orzepowski THE BIG ...

They can tell a pedestrian who wants to cross in front of the car, “Waiting for You.” Or they can warn them: “Going Now/Don’t Cr ...

What Kind of Hearing Aids Do Doctors Use? The same ones they recommend to their patients! Doctors love MDHearingAids® for the sa ...

SPRING 2019 48 THE UNBEATABLE SAILBOAT 55 THE FATE OF FLYING CARS AND JETPACKS 64 PERFECTING PUBLIC TRANSIT 70 HOW TO SURVIVE A ...

BY ANDREW BLUM THE POP SCI 48 ...

typography by Eric Htypography by Eric Heintzeintz PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARIUS BUGGE MASTERPIECE IN 1970 , BRUCE KIRBY CREATED THE PER ...

September, 89-year-old Bruce Kirby leans against the pinstriped first-mate’s seat of Lulu as it motors in slow circles on Long I ...

boats are a blast. “Who wants to design a slow boat?” Kirby likes to ask. “Or own one, for that matter.” The wheel was a Neolith ...

the sail, so they recut the cloth that night and won the next day’s contest. The little boat was fast and looked it, with a low ...

THE LASER IN FIVE EASY PIECES Sound. It had a deepwater dock out the back, and Kirby’s Laser—sail number 0—was laid out on the l ...

“There’s a lot of bullshit luck involved with the Laser, you know,” Kirby says, sitting at his dining room table, a half hull of ...

the we promised POP SCI 55 jetpacks and flying cars might seem more at home parked in the pages of sci-fi novels (and, uh, some ...

f l y i n g c a r s the point of flying cars is convenience: to go up and over traffic instead of sit- ting in it. That means th ...

1949 Although the pre- cursor to the FAA certified Moulton Taylor’s Aerocar as safe to fly, it never entered production. Makes s ...

58 SPRING 2019 • POPSCI.COM hyperloop capsules zoom at the speed of sound along magnetic rails through underground pneumatic tub ...

Inventor Alfred Ely Beach earned a patent for his Pneu- matic Transitt tech, which got power from large fans at opposite ends of ...

60 SPRING 2019 • POPSCI.COM j e t p a c k s in 1958, popular science predicted humankind’s “age-old dream of flying like a bird. ...

1958 PROMISING TECHNOLOGIES The U.S. Army com- missioned Project Grasshopper—a crude rocket belt— from Utah-based Thiokol Chemic ...

62 SPRING 2019 • POPSCI.COM in early 2018, it seemed like autonomous cars were ready to hit public roads. Then a self-driving Ub ...

POPSCI.COM•SPRING 2019 63 1958 CONCEPTS & PROTOTYPES Engineers measure autonomy from zero (full human control) to five (to- ...