I took a look at the possibility of a return to steam locomotives in a previous post. But what about steam automobiles? Unlike an internal combustion engine where you need fuel to explode in the cylinders, heating water for steam lends itself to more fuel choices (wood, coal, oil, propane, etc.). That should be a [...]
Madison Park of CNN reports: (CNN) — If your pinkie and ring fingers tingle or feel numb, you might not want to pick up that cell phone to call the doctor. Orthopedic specialists are reporting cases of “cell phone elbow,” in which patients damage an essential nerve in their arm by bending their elbows too [...]
Ryan Tate of Valleywag reports: James Coleman of Bristol, England became the “laughing stock of the office” after he got a black eye while using Twitter on the go… In Coleman’s case, reality literally smacked him upside the head. He was jogging to work and tweeting on his BlackBerry when he cracked his skull against [...]
I certainly enjoy watching a bit of television, but think it is definitely possibly to have too much of a good thing. Watching free tv over-the-air is the perfect compromise between giving up tv entirely and paying for hundreds of channels. Ted Leonsis writes: Growing up my mom never let me watch more than one hour of [...]
Craig Howie writes an interesting article for AOL Autos about the possibility of speed cameras coming to highways: You may already have seen an ominous looking radar and camera perched atop a traffic light in your neighborhood. And almost all drivers have seen a patrol car cruising a freeway looking for speeders, or a law-enforcement [...]