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Binding: Magazine
First Issue Lead Time: 4-6 weeks
Format: Magazine Subscription, Print
Issues Per Year: 12
Label: Hearst Magazines
Magazine Type: Consumer magazine
Manufacturer: Hearst Magazines
Number Of Issues: 24
Publisher: Hearst Magazines
Studio: Hearst Magazines
Subscription Length: 730 days
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Product Description:
Popular Mechanics is for people who have a passion to know how things work. It's about how the latest advances in science and technology will impact your home, your car, consumer electronics, computers, even your health.Popular Mechanics - answers for curious minds.
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Popular Mechanics is for people who have a passion to know how things work. It's about how the latest advances in science and technology will impact your home, your car, consumer electronics, computers, even your health. Popular Mechanics - answers for curious minds. Who Reads Popular Mechanics?
The Popular Mechanics reader is curious.The reader is driven to explore, become knowledgeable and actively participate in a wide variety of interests, making him today's Go-to Guy that Main Street America goes to for advice.
What You Can Expect in Each Issue:
The Popular Mechanics reader has a curious mind - a hunger to know, an inquisitive interest, and a desire to investigate and learn.Every month, Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences millions of curious minds - engaging them with breakthroughs in science and technology, how-to stories on digital technology, automotive advances and home upgrades. - Tech Watch:Reporters dig deep to find new and exciting technological advances that will keep readers up-to-date with cutting-edge innovations – in aviation, computers, energy, environment, health, military, robotics, space and transportation.
- Upgrade: Reporters collect the best gear from the biggest trade shows – from new tools for the home and worksite to the most advanced digital gadgets – and provide no-nonsense comparison tests and monthly reviews.
- New Cars: Auto editors at Popular Mechanics give readers a comprehensive sneak-peak of the most exciting vehicles coming out of Detroit, Asia and Europe.
- DIY Auto: This section gives readers a place to go for all their automotive repair and maintenance questions and answers – allowing them to skip the trip to the local mechanic by providing them instructions on exactly how to diagnose and repair any number of auto problems.
- DIY Home:This section offers readers a column with a variety of step-by-step home improvement projects, including useful tips, advice and product reviews.
- DIY Tech: This gives readers hands on advice on all things tech – from cameras and computers to HDTV and surround sound – keeping them one step ahead of the curve.
- Feature Articles: Popular Mechanics tells you how the latest advances in science and technology will impact your home, your car, consumer electronics, computers, even your health.Features include: Tech Watch, Upgrade, New Cars, Saturday Mechanic, Car Clinic, Homeowners Clinic, and Jay Leno's Garage.
Magazine Layout:
Popular Mechanics is clean, crisp, fresh and cool.The magazine continuously delivers to curious minds every month - and even at 102 years young, continues to be a voice of authority on all things science, automotive, technology, home and outdoors.
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Comparisons to Other Magazines:
Popular Mechanics is the essential source for the modern man.From installing windows in their home or on their computer, Popular Mechanics gives readers the information and tools they need to be confident and competent in today’s high-tech world.
Advertising:
Popular Mechanics has a wide variety of advertisers, from automobiles to retailers and tools to home and garden, and everything in between.
Awards:
Over the past 9 years, Popular Mechanics has won over 60 Art and Design Awards - ranging from Distinction in Editorial Design toBest Cover of the Year, to Best Table of Contents to Distinction in Photography.In 2008, Popular Mechanics won the American Society of Magazine Editors award for excellence in service journalism, for its 3 part series on the fast growing national anxiety - the degradation of the environment.
With plenty of features on the latest high-tech cars, tools, sports gear, and military developments,
Popular Mechanics is the source for discriminating gadget heads. Full-page ads for spark plugs, extrastrong glues, and manly cigarettes fuel the magazine's testosterone engine, and many of the how-to articles are designed to help today's male achieve maximum speed, efficiency, and style in his leisure activities. In-depth articles on the history of the baseball glove, comparison tests of mulching mowers, and a list of the cables you'll need to build a home network join brief news bites covering science, outdoors, and home improvement. With a copy of
Popular Mechanics and a fat wallet, you could be the alpha male you've always wanted to be!
--Therese Littleton Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
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- Could be more practical, Room for improvement
Jay Leno's column is cool but it is in every other issue, not monthly. I agree that PM gives a good overview of tech stuff and its great to have the advice columns for us home and auto owners. I find, though, the mag is too technical at times- it echoes the all too common tendency of many companies to focus on features and not on ease of use or simplicity of the product. Tech for its own sake, in other words. They often write about "fantasy inventions"- things that would not work in the real world, ...
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- Great Magazine
I'm about halfway through my first issue and loving it.PM has a very nice mix of futuristic tech and current, more practical tech.I can't wait for the next one.
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- Popular Mechanics
I ordered the Magazine over 5 weeks ago and have not recieved an issue yet.It is hard to rate something that has not been delivered.
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- Whole family Read!!
We love having Popular Mechanics around to keep our young boys interested in reading. Even when the articles are too hard for our youngest reader to read the pictures spark his interest and make for great daddy / son time!! It has interesting articles for everyone.
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- Have not recieved order yet!
I ordered this in May for my husband for Father's Day and I was told it would be here right around Father's Day June 20th. Then I recieved another email stating that it would be here in July. I was very dissapointed. Now what do I give him an empty envolope with an IOU. Thats not the worst, I then recieved a notice that I will be getting my first issue in August. Fantastic! I ordered it in early May and will get it in August. Maybe? I do not know how to rate this product because It hasn't come. Thank ...
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