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Look out for PM’s stylishly branded Ford Focus. If you spot it, take your picture with the car and upload it to PM’s Facebook Page via the “Spot the Focus” app. You could WIN a 7-inch Wi-Fi Wise Touch Tablet and HUAWEI E5832 Wi-Fi Modem worth R2 990.
Currently, the Focus can be seen around Cape Town, and on 21 May it will be driven up to Johannesburg. It will come back to Cape Town on 28 May.
The competition ends at midnight on 31 August, and PM’s editors will choose the overall winner on 1 September. |
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In this wallpaper collection, we introduce some of the leading characters in BBC Earth’s One Life documentary. Specially developed equipment and filming techniques were used to show the animals at critical moments in their lives. Click anywhere on the image below to be directed to the collection, download your favourites (or all of them, for that matter) and set them as your desktop background...
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Meet PDBot
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Meet PDBot, the first generation of police robots made by high school students... |click here|
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Jay Leno’s 1916 Owen Magnetic
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People think hybrids are something new, but they've been around since the beginning of the car. Jay Leno thinks the 1916 Owen Magnetic might be the most interesting early hybrid of them all. Take a closer look at his Owen Magnetic... |click here|
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Budding engineers prepare for the 2012 South African Solar Challenge
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Stratolaunch Systems is pioneering innovative solutions to revolutionise space transportation. The world's largest aircraft is already under construction. Check out the video... |click here|
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| Agatised dinosaur bone cells, unpolished, ca. 150 million years old... |click here| |
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Is Earth really a sort of giant living organism as the Gaia hypothesis predicts? A new discovery may provide a key to answering this question... |more| |
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Remember the Icelandic volcano back in May 2010? At the time, scientists followed its paths using various instruments. Now, they present the results and models that will help to prevent the consequences of such natural phenomena... |more| |
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Scientists have developed a way to generate power using harmless viruses that convert mechanical energy into electricity... |more| |
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| One lucky Popular Mechanics reader will win a VIP experience at the Vodacom Origins of Golf taking place at Selborne from 22 to 24 August 2012. |more| |
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PM and Marvel Studios are giving you the chance to win 1 of 3 Marvel’s The Avengers hampers, each worth R500. |more| |
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| Win 1 of 2 DeWALT Contractors’ toolkits - each worth R15 000... |more| |
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Win 1 of 5 DataTraveler SE9 4 GB USB flash drives (each valued at R72), or 1 of 4 Kingston DataTraveler Micro 16 GB USB flash drives (worth R127 each)... |more| |
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| Win a Klarus XT11 hunting light worth R945. |more| |
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Stand to win a Bosch PSM 18Li lithium ion cordless multi-sander worth
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Subscribe to 12 issues of PM's Digizine (note: iPad-compatible version now available) for only R125,79! |click here|
Did you know that if you're an existing Popular Mechanics print subscriber, you can claim your FREE digital version by e-mailing subs@ramsaymedia.co.za with your request? |
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| Subscribe to PM for 12 issues and you could WIN the dynamic new Ford Focus 1.6 Trend worth R233 290. We will also send you a gift for your Dad – the Solar Speedy Car kit from The Green Shop.|more| |
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