Pimp your toilet?
Boston Globe
Advanced household technology once meant owning a garbage disposal and a frost-free refrigerator. Today we’ve got stoves that cook with magnetism instead of heat, vacuum cleaners with built-in ray guns, and washing machines that decide for ...
Haunting 101: The scare is in the details
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Sure — and witches fly vacuum cleaners. Still, haunted-house veterans agree that a back story that is even slightly plausible gives the best attractions real bite. "Plenty of haunted houses just have scary scenes thrown together that don't ...
Bladeless Fan Invented: James Dyson Explains How 'Air Multiplier' Fan Works
The Huffington Post
What's Your Reaction? A fan with no blades? Sounds impossible, but when coming from the innovating mind of James Dyson (of the nifty, newfangled vacuum cleaners and hand dryers), maybe it's not so impossible.
Why has Bill Bailey written a guide to the orchestra?
Times Online
Does he feel any affinity with the great Gerard Hoffnung, comic classical-music whimsy merchant of the 1950s, who liked nothing better than placing vacuum cleaners and floor polishers in a symphony orchestra? “There’s a bit of channelling ...
The robot on track to be grandmother's little helper
Technology.timesonline
Meet your grandmother’s new live-in helper: a robot built by an American company that has already pioneered robot vacuum cleaners and robot bomb-diffusers — 2,000 of which are on duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. The company, iRobot, says it pl...
Leaf labors
Bedford Times-Mail
The annual slow march through Bedford and Mitchell is well under way. Workers and oversized vacuum cleaners follow methodical routes along the streets, sucking up an autumn’s worth of fallen tree leaves for disposal. Aside from “an occasion...
Police blotter
Redmond Reporter
Fraud: A victim in the 17300 block of Northeast 85th Place received a cashier’s check in the mail from an online survey business. He cashed the check and returned the money to the business. The cashier’s check was fraudulent.
Fixit: Dusty ducts and recycling rags
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
QHow dirty do heating ducts get in a year? Is it necessary to clean them yearly as my wife insists? AThey don't get very dirty year to year in most homes. Regular duct cleaning isn't necessary. However, don't confuse duct cleaning with furn...
Clean your own firebox for instant impact
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Before you pile on the wood and strike the season's first match, there are a few preliminary steps you can take right now to make sure your chimney is prepped and ready for another season.
Preoccupations: Success Isn’t Only for the Extroverts
New York Times
I found that I did my best work when the commotion fizzled and all I could hear was the buzz of the vacuum cleaners of the maintenance staff. One day, something clicked for me. I took the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, a popular personality a...
Bike and car enthusiasts enjoy what Clay has to offer
Evansville Courier & Press
Editor's note: This is the latest in an occasional series that takes a closer look at small towns in the Tri-State. CLAY, Ky. — Main Street Shoppes has a variety of items for sale from clothes to cupcakes. Customers also can paint their own...
Awqaf eyes ‘tech boost’
The Peninsula
DOHA: The Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs (Awqaf) is set to launch an ambitious project that takes advantage of technology to enhance service rendered to mosques.
Paranormal activity? Call local ghost busters
Yakima Herald-Republic
Yakima's ghost busters aren't sucking up ectoplasmic residue in metal canisters that look suspiciously like backpack vacuum cleaners the way Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd and other paranormal scientists did in the 1984 movie.
