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- Pet safety: Should you keep rubber ducky away from puppy?What makes our lives easier and better might just make the furry members of our family sick, or maybe even kill them. The ASPCA recently came out with its Top Ten Pet Toxins of 2011, an annual list compiled by fielded calls into the ASPCA's Animal Poison Control Center in Urbana, IL.read more
- Flame retardants may make air even deadlier in firesSmoke inhalation and toxic gases kill more people during fires than burn injuries, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And some flame retardants--chemicals used to treat carpets, upholstery, curtains and other products to slow the progression of visible flames--may actually make the air in a fire even more deadly, according to a stud […]
- Arm yourself against heart diseaseDoctors recommend monitoring your blood pressure at home if you have high blood pressure. Taking daily readings yields a more accurate measure of blood pressure than a one-time reading during a doctor's exam, which could skew higher because of something called "white-coat" anxiety.read more
- Micro Chip Crisp'r: Watch us try it!A couple weeks ago, we posted photos of a mystery gadget on our Facebook page, asking readers for their guesses as to what it was. "It" turned out to be a Micro Chip Crisp'r (*Est. $6), a plastic gadget to make your own potato chips in the microwave.We got plenty of oddball replies. Many people thought it had something to do with bundt cakes; […]
- Cash, karma and cool ideas: What can you do with an old smartphone?Everyone has a junk drawer, a.k.a. that black hole in your kitchen (or elsewhere) where you toss takeout menus, manuals and other things that you don't think you should throw away, but you don't quite know what to do with, either. Junk drawers are also where old smartphones go to die -- but they shouldn't be. Even without a voice plan, old sma […]
- All cars, all day at IMPA "Spring Brake"Last week, I drove out to New York's Bear Mountain State park for the International Motor Press Association's (IMPA) "Spring Brake" event, at which a variety of manufacturers have a selection of cars and SUVs for IMPA members to sample throughout the day. The only bad thing about the event (which was blessed with ideal driving weather: wa […]
Probably not any time soon. They’re still too expensive. Maybe I’ll look into them in the years to come, but other than that – probably not.