If you know anything about Chevrolet and General Motors as of late, or if you've kept a marginal eye on our Facebook and/or Twitter streams, one thing is abundantly clear:  GM plans to move headlong into the future of automobiles via the electric vehicle, headlined by the award-winning Volt, Popular Mechanic's Invention of the Year.  As such, LG, a company that's performed in the top tier of electronics from televisions to…

Remember in the 1980s or early 1990s when robots were still science fiction?  Actually, I remember in an early, start of the millennium issue of Popular Mechanics magazine that a company had built the first humanoid robot that was capable of amazing feats:  walking down one stair (as opposed to stairs, plural), turning a few pages of a book, and so forth.  At the time I was flabbergasted by the astonishing tasks these hunks of…

If you're anything like me and regardless of your age or gender, chances are you probably played cops and robbers or some variation thereof when you were a child.  It's really a milestone of youth in a sense, as it happens right around the time when you first think to yourself what do I want to be when I grow up?  I think playing cops and robbers appeals to kids because it instills…