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:: A LITTLE OFF :: Read Our Full Review >>The Bonnier Mag+ platform is great on video and in theory but isn't great as an iPad application.
What's New
- Support for retina display- Other bug fixes and improvements
App Description
Popular Science+ is the re-imagined and re-designed digital version of Popular Science magazine. It has ALL the same content as the print magazine, along with special iPad-only features.FREE ISSUE INSIDE!
Included with your app is a complete free issue – the one that we sent to paid subscribers last month. It’s yours to keep permanently. Download it, read it, and scroll through the pages! (Tap the screen to access your “Library” at the top, to find it.)
You’ll be able to experience this exciting new way of viewing words and pictures – and understand why so many people have chosen to become regular subscribers to Popular Science+.
MAY ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS:
• Jet Setters — Three concept planes that would make commercial flight cleaner and quieter.
• China Takes Off — How the Chinese air-travel boom will change global aviation for the better. By James Fallows
• The Mach-1 Suit — Inside the equipment that will keep Felix Baumgartner alive on the world’s first 120,000-foot free fall. By Steven Kotler
• High Voltage — How engineers are tackling the challenge of electric aviation. By Seth Fletcher
• The Human Element — Why fighter pilots will always win a dogfight. By C.J. Chivers
• Paper Lions — The world’s greatest paper-plane engineers go head to head. By Corinne Iozzio
• What’s New — The nimblest R/C jet plane, test-driving the Fisker Karma, the (mobile) future of videogames
• Headlines — Skin-inspired armor, a robot-helicopter swarm, the biggest tunnel-boring machine
• How 2.0 — Building a portable x-ray machine, turning an old netbook into a new tablet, the magic of toxic phosphorus
. . . and more!
SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE!
• Free 30-day trial if you order an annual subscription: Order an annual subscription, and you will get the current issue free; you can download it to your iPad and read it for 30 days. If you like it, you will receive 12 more issues (1 year) for $14.99, billed to your iTunes account. If you decide Popular Science+ is not for you, just cancel within the 30-day period and you will have no obligation, and no iTunes charges.
• Not sure? Get a one-month subscription for $1.99, automatically renewed each month until you decide to cancel it.
Your subscription will automatically renew unless you cancel 24 hours before the subscription runs out. You can turn off auto-renewal at any time from your iTunes account settings. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during an active subscription period.
For more information, read our privacy policy and terms of use. http://www.bonniercorp.com/privacy_policy.html
INSTRUCTIONS TO USE THIS APP:
*Please note that most stories are constructed in two layers, one on top of the other.
-Swipe left or right to BROWSE through the magazine.
-Swipe up or down to READ an article.
-Tap the screen to ACCESS the menu.
-DOUBLE TAP the screen to TOGGLE the top layer on and off.
-A SINGLE TAP will call up the menu and navigation system; tap again to remove it.
-Tap the UPPER-LEFT CORNER to access the contents.
-Tap the UPPER-RIGHT CORNER to bookmark an article.
Missing issues after update? Tap the “Missing Issues?” button in the Library and sign in to the iTunes account you used to buy the issues originally. They should reappear in your Library.
E-mail us with any questions, problems, or even just feedback at: popsciplus@popsci.com
App Changes
April 17, 2012 New version 3.2
February 24, 2012 New version 3.1
January 05, 2012 New version 3.0
November 11, 2011 New version 2.6.1
October 12, 2011 New version 2.6
April 26, 2011 New version 2.0
April 01, 2010 Initial Release



