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WHAT WENT WRONG
ANALYSING THE
COSTA
CONCORDIA
TRAGEDY
LAB-GROWN
ORGANS
Scientists now produce vital
HOW BIONIC
body parts from scratch
TECH WILL
GIVE US
LONGER,
HEALTHIER
SYMBIONIC LEG
Combines a bionic knee, ankle
and foot for the fi rst time
LIVES
RE-ENGINEERING
HUMA
N
PRINTED BONES
3D scaffolds provide
structur
THE
e for new cells
PLUS:
BRAIN CONTROL!
The user’s thoughts move
this robotic hand
FA
CEBOOK
CONNECT SA
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
BUSINESS IN THE CLOUD
BEWARE THE CYBER CROOKS
FLYING UPSIDE DOWN
LOTS OF GREAT GADGETS
(WE DID IT ON PURPOSE)
Some cars get you from A to B. Some do a whole lot more. The new
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EDITOR'S NOTES
UNVEILING OUR TECH FUTURE.
futur
tech
TOMORROW’S
TECHNOLOGY
TODAY
C
ontrary to widespread belief,
South Africa does
not
lurk at
the bottom end of the techno-
logical food chain. In fact, when
it comes to connecting with the
future through new technologies
and exploiting every avenue of
communication, our hunger
knows no bounds – as does our
pride in home-grown innovation.
Now say hello to
FutureTech
2012
, a unique P
OPULAR
M
ECHANICS
initiative that will bring together
tech-savvy people from all over
South Africa for an exciting and
inspiring conference. It happens
in Johannesburg on 25 October,
and it’s destined to be a “must”
on the calendar of anyone who
wants to get up to speed in a
world ruled by technology. The
theme of our inaugural confer-
ence is “connect”, a word that
will resonate with anyone who
understands the mechanics of
the 21
st
century.
Representing the top echelon
of science and technology, our
presenters will unpack techno-
logies that are already changing
our lives for the better, enabling
us to share world-changing ideas
and solve challenges together.
Programme details and booking
information will be available
soon; please watch for announce-
ments via our Web site, our
weekly e-mail newsletters (“The
Cutting Edge”) our TV commer-
cials and other channels.
There’s also some good news
for South Africa’s vibrant invent-
ing community: our Inventor of
the Year Competition remains as
an integral part of the
FutureTech
initiative. Details of the annual
challenge, which offers even big-
ger cash prizes for 2012, will be
released within the next few
weeks (see elsewhere in this issue).
Now to this month’s magazine.
Our cover story, “Re-engineer-
ing the human”, explores some
remarkable breakthroughs in
the design of prosthetic limbs,
artificial organs, bones and
even blood cells. Bionic limbs
with machine intelligence can
now sense their environment
and predict a user’s intentions.
The prosthetic arm on our cover
is actually composed of a swarm
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of robots, each detachable seg-
ment housing a processor that
works in concert with the others.
Wonderful stuff, and it’s bring-
ing new hope to many people.
We hope you enjoy our bumper
32-page
Tech Focus supplement
,
which comes free with this
month’s issue. It introduces fas-
cinating and increasingly relevant
technologies in the fields of home
entertainment, automotive safety,
leisure pursuits, communications,
and much more. We provide ad-
vice on buying a new TV, intro-
duce a couple of outrageous
bicycles, unpack appliances with
brains, and ask what it will take
for tablets to replace PCs.
As always, we showcase a
heady assortment of new gadgets
throughout the magazine – which
brings me to an opportunity for
full disclosure. Having been con-
sumed with guilt for the past
few weeks, I should now confess
to my wife (who is morally
obliged to read PM every month)
that the 600 mW laser pointer,
Music Angel docking station,
multi-bladed camping knife and
Samurai steel LED watch were
not, in fact, “for the office”.
Finally, regular PM readers
who may have been alarmed by
our “haunted house” headline
need not be concerned: it’s not
about exorcism or exploring
beyond the veil. Instead, we
explain what makes doors bang
and floors creak in your ageing
house, then tell how you to fix
them. It’s what we do.
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CONTENTS
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JUNE 2012 VOLUME 10, NO. 11
TECH
20 Re-engineering the human
(cover story)
Bionic limbs get smarter; blood cells are next
45 DIY tech
Five rules for Internet safety
58 Digital clinic Q&A
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Name that sound
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Neg-a-pixels
69 SA: gadget nation
Of cyber crooks and cloud storage
74 My sandbox, my algorithm?
WHEELS
48 New on the block
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Lambo off-road rocket
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Merc concepts
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Keep Old Faithful running
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Sports car skirmish
114 Esoteric car repairs
Welcome to an obsessive underworld
128 Car clinic Q&A
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Oil crisis
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Mystery leaks
FEATURES
36 What went wrong
PM investigates the deadly
Costa Concordia
accident
60 Training day
Preparing fi rst responders for the worst
72 Facebook faux pas
First, get your head around “smart” sand...
SCIENCE
12 Tech watch
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Fire and forget
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The fl utter fi ghter
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Dummy fi sh, smarter dams
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Fukushima’s long goodbye
Minding your manners in social media
HOME
121 Homeowner’s clinic Q&A
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Make your move
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Start digging
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Yankee dandy
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Fan clubbed
124 Fix your haunted house
Creaking fl oors? Flickering lights? Strange
UPGRADE
76 When ideas run free
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Meet a two-seater hybrid car and gyroplane
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Honda redefi nes personal mobility
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Thirsty? Fancy a R1,25 million bottle of whisky?
MONTHLY
1
Editor’s notes
4
Contact us
7
Letters
10
Time machine
30
Great stuff
113
This is my job
144
Do it your way
smells? Here’s what to do about it...
PM DIGITAL
123
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Spot the Ford Focus – and win
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Watch the chilling
Prometheus
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OUTSIDE
56 Flying upside down
On the cover: The Modular Prosthetic Limb, developed at Johns
Hopkins University for DARPA, belongs to a new wave of bionic
devices with superior dexterity and machine intelligence. A brain-
controlled model is in clinical trials now. Photograph by Eric Ogden.
This page: Designed and built by Ekso Bionics, this exoskeleton was
the fi rst to step out of the lab and into the real world.
Our journo steps aboard an acrobatic helicopter
IN FOCUS
66 Hearth and home
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A radically different fan heater
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Bling’s the thing (just add crystals)
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