According to an AP article a number of companies are starting schemes where employees are given an allowance to cover the use of their own laptops at work. The theory for companies is that this might actually cost them less…
A recent article in the New York Times was trying to link the decline of landlines in homes as a result of a slowing economy. While it may be true that tighter home budgets pushed folks to trim the fat…
Move over Kindle…there’s a new reader in town. Plastic Logic has presented a demonstration of their new eReader product at the DEMOfall 08 technology conference. As yet unpriced, it is expected to debut in the first half of 2009. What’s…
I just saw some information on a solar icemaker created by some students in San Jose. This is a great invention. The picture I saw was a big device but who cares. Regular commercial icemakers are big as well. It…
I have seen several versions of automatic or robotic lawn mowers online yet I am still skeptical. Mostly I have seen ones similar to the one pictured at the end of this post. But I have run across a couple…
We all have seen those cameras at red light intersections. We all have slammed on our brakes when we do see one if fear of Big Brother mailing us a bill for our “transgression”. At intersections with no camera we…
Soon, you may see your Quarters in a new way. The US Mint is working with a new 3-D modeling technology to design circulating and collectible coins. The Bald Eagle half dollar and James Monroe dollar are a couple coins…