Articles Posted August 2009
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Insight into the world of glasses
Today Dorothy Parker’s words, “Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses,” are outmoded for so many reasons but mostly because eyeglasses are now enjoying the spotlight as more fashion statement than functional item.…
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Go into the light
The green light means trust, the purple light says disgust. The red light is anger and the blue or gray light is sadness. Emotional LEDs are said to be one of the hot new inventions…
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The numbers in our lives
Someone once said, “Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive but what they conceal is vital.” And we don’t really know what these upcoming statistics reveal or conceal and how vital they are…
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Switzerland protects its privacy
Most have accepted the reality that the word “privacy” is mainly just a word in the digital age. Personal data from health records to social media profiles are randomly transferred and shared on computers everywhere.…
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The tough make grape soda
By now it’s cliché. There’s a recession out there and businesses are suffering as the market recalibrates itself. But it isn’t like this hasn’t been done before. There is always a way path out and…
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Could there be an app for you?
So you want to win customers and influence their choices. Is there an app for that? At this time there may not be but indications are that it might be wise for businesses to create…
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Please don’t poach the crayfish
August is crayfish eating month – somewhere. And, in our great, green, hi-tech world, it seems some things are being done the old fashioned way. Folks from Louisiana to California and even Australia are poaching…
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When science meets the bus stop
The bus stop. A mundane, unstylish, practical thing. And around here who takes the bus anyway? Over time various artists have undertaken projects to liven up the ordinary bus stop with paint or artistic designs.…
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New USB drive and crystal earbuds
Reviewers are weighing in on the newest external hard drive – the just released Verbatim InSight portable USB drive. With two models sporting capacities of 300 gigabytes and 500 gigabytes for under $200, the drive…
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