Science, Health & Recalls Week of November 16

Honda Device Builds Immediate Strength Honda Motor Co. recently introduced a supportive lower-body exoskeleton to assist walking, Scientific American reports. The Fundamental Technology Research Center of Honda R&D Co. began designing the walking assist device in 1999, with the goal of improving the mobility of people who walked with difficulty. The user sits on a [...]

The City Slicker’s GPS: A GPS For The Infrequent Driver

The Dirt: Garmin may have been one of the first to gain a big market share of the personal navigation sector, but competitors are creeping up, among them the promising Navigon, whose U.S. headquarters is based in an emerging financial city, Chicago. With a catchy name that combines its industry, navigation devices, with the tiny [...]

Easy Makeup For All: One-Step Cosmetics

Cosmetic innovations have come a long way, making women’s morning routine shorter thanks to products that multi-task and work for many environments. Formula variations have taken us from a world where separate products were required for foundation, blush and bronzer, and lip liner, lipstick and gloss, to products that double-time. Recently two more joined that [...]

Morocco’s Latest Natural Resource

Often thought of as a stable African nation and exotic tourist destination, Morocco is now referred to by some as the home of the Argan tree. The tree found in a certain region of the nation that straddles Africa and the Middle East bears a fruit whose insides are cultivated for its oil. Long used [...]

Mobile Civil Liberties: The Android, The Bold and The Treo Pro

The Dirt: Perpetually connected, the mobile addict is a constant consumer and that’s just what is helping forge alliances between mobile phone makers, software developers, cell phone carriers and advertising companies. Amid a bear market, while the housing and stock markets continue to slump, the mobile phone rumor mill is buzzing, as Palm prepares for [...]

Squashing Fat Food NationThe Breakfast Companies’ Attempt At Healthy MenusWhat: American food business chains are in the midst of a competition for the best “healthy breakfast” menu. What’s the truth about the food?

The Dirt: One might argue the food businesses in America have worked out a clever roller coaster of a marketing plan, building us up with fatty, delicious foods only to allow themselves to present “healthy” menus that help us lose the weight. Or, one might just chock the fatness of America up to the excess [...]

A Sexy PC On The Cheap: The Bare Basics Serve The Computer-Phobe

The Dirt: The low-cost personal computing market has shifted from the third world to the struggling first world as consumers cut spending and companies aim to fill a gap left by enterprise IT spending cuts. This was recently seen with the BlackBerry Pearl, a Research in Motion product meant to help the Canadian company grab [...]

A Writer In A Dancer’s Body

Spotted: Chelsea Name: Karen Age: 29 Hometown: Toronto Current ‘hood: Queens, NYC First language: English Job: Fiction writer, retail sales associate Ethnicity: Jamaican Canadian Favorite Condiment: Mustard Religion: Christian On your iPod now: Stevie Wonder Favorites movie(s): Pride & Prejudice Dream Job: “To write a bunch of novels that would be on Oprah’s book list.”

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