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Feb 4, 2021

What’s a word for a device that saves time and labor?  A timmynoggy!  Speaking of timmynoggys, I was hiking in Colorado and found some old cans near an abandoned logging camp.  The cans were so thick, I wondered how in the world did people open these back then? Early cans for storing vegetables were made of iron...


Jul 1, 2020

 

It’s been just over 100 years since the first traffic light appeared.  Early traffic lights weren’t automatic but operated manually by a police officer in a booth next to the road.  At first, there were only red and green lights.  The yellow light didn’t come into use until the 1920’s when officers noticed...


Apr 30, 2019

 

Eudemonia is a word for deriving pleasure from doing mundane things such as the laundry.  Finally, modern technology has produced a machine that can help, with the laundry that is. The Foldimate, which just debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, folds your clothes for you.  Well, this is sure to make...


Mar 3, 2019

 

Television in America is turning 75 this year. Visitors to the World’s Fair in New York in 1939 were amazed to see moving pictures and hear sound coming from a small black-and-white screen built into a large wooden box! And then they were stunned to learn this technological marvel could soon be in their own...


Feb 5, 2018

 

February has been deemed Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month, an awareness-raising campaign started by  frustrated Chicago grocery store owner Anthony Dinolfo.

Stores around the world report losses of more than $800 million dollars a year due to thefts of shopping carts.  The average shopping cart costs...