Late on your car loan payment? They won’t kill you, just your car
The credit squeeze that has helped put the brakes on the US economy is now stalling cars, as loan companies and automobile sellers install electronic repossession devices that kick in if a buyer misses a payment.

Sometimes you may just want a few bites of an apple, but you feel compelled to stuff down the whole thing since otherwise you’d just have to throw it away.

Breastfeeding has become a popular sport among newborns
About 77 percent of new mothers breast-feed their infants at least briefly, the highest rate seen in the United States in more than a decade, according to a government survey released on Wednesday. In 1993 and 1994, just 60 percent of new mothers breast-fed their babies, but […]

 Sorry, but your message smells funny
Two German companies have patented technology for sending scented text messages on mobile phones.

Only about 1 percent of U.S.-born founders of tech companies are teenagers
Challenging the perception of American technology entrepreneurs as 20-something wunderkinds launching businesses from college dorm rooms, a new study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and researchers at Duke and Harvard universities reveals most U.S.-born technology and engineering company founders are middle-aged, well-educated and […]

Beam me down some money, Scotty! This one’s pricey.
Look, I can kind of understand how some audiophiles justify spending a lot of money on fancy audio equipment, but don’t they realize that the CD is a dying format? I mean, I’m sure this ridiculous-looking $12,000 CD player is great and everything, but won’t you feel […]

The phone cart is a great improvement over the smoke signal cart…
Have you ever seen a bicycle vendor selling ice cream, popsicles, corn on the cob, hotdogs, etc? If you haven’t, the vendors are usually riding a three-wheeled bike with a cargo box in the front filled with their products. Inspired by these bikes and […]

As wireless services improve, traditional phone lines are going away

SNL Kagan expects that telecommunications carriers’ market share of fixed residential telephone service to decline, mostly due to IP voice services from cable operators.
In the past two years, the telcos’ share has dwindled from 90% to 74% of total connections. Over the next five years, that […]

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T3 Motion - Personal mobility has a new friend
Back in 2003, a hand-picked team of expert engineers, veteran designers, seasoned management, and environmental specialists was assembled under the T3 Motion banner. This diverse and accomplished group brought together world-renowned backgrounds in engineering, design, and electronics previously seen in some of the world’s most celebrated automobiles […]

Turning Laundry Into A New Experience
Because Japanese homes are typically small, you’ll seldom find a dryer accompanying the family washing machine, thus resulting in a sea of clothesline-dried laundry covering entire neighborhoods. The archaic practice of drying one’s clothes outside–even in the winter, rain and during pollen season–makes even less sense in the technology forward […]

 
Your brain machinery is clunky, only remembering 3-4 things at a time
Human memory is short. And we would do well to remember that, say researchers at the University of Missouri- Columbia. Their study on the storage capacity of the conscious mind or working memory, as reported by   LiveScience.com, caps the limit at a mere three […]

The Magic ZvBox Box
Hot off the press this morning is the ZvBox from ZeeVee. The box is a PC-to-TV video gadget that lets you send any and all video content on your PC to any digital, cable-connected TV in your home.