Want to lose $49.97 in a few seconds? One way to do it is to buy the “blueprints” being sold by the “Stirling Power Generator”. We fully understand your frustration with electric utilities and their regulators and we are all tempted to find ways to reduce our electric bills while still being able to use this … Read more
Here’s the one thing that we hate about ink-jet printers: cartridges. The printers are amazing — they are inexpensive, generally reliable notwithstanding lots of movable parts, they are smart and produce some surprisingly good graphics. The one thing that ruins my printer experience is cartridges. They are horribly and blatantly overpriced and yet … Read more
Getting tired of $1000+ annual cellular bills? How does $300 per year for unlimited talk, text and data sound? Sounds too good to be true, but it is true….and ingenious. There are three wireless phone services worth your attention. Perhaps the most interesting one is Republic Wireless; its phones use a clever hybrid communications concept, which … Read more
It is an increasingly common sight in living rooms, on rooftops and balconies throughout U.S. cities; a vertical garden. People are installing low-cost vertical structures in order to grow their own food, make salad greens and herbs more readily available and reduce exposure to pesticides and herbicides commonly used in supermarket-sold produce. In light of estimates … Read more