Carrying and lifting heavy luggage during the holidays can lead to neck, wrist, back and shoulder pain and injuries unless you take proper safety precautions, an orthopedic surgeon says. In 2012, nearly 54,000 luggage-related injuries ...
Spot prices of 98.5% 553-grade silicon metal in Asia rose this week as sellers raised offer prices due to output cuts in South China. Platts assessed the Chinese export spot price at $2,040-2,060/mt FOB China Thursday, up from ...
We went into the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials with what we thought were realistic expectations. And generally, we had the right idea: the robots are very slow, very deliberate, and not always successful. But overall, we've been surprised ...
Tags: Robotics, Electrical, Electronics
Engineers at Imec and IBM have independently developed new manufacturing processes for making the next decade's leading chips, they revealed late last year. These efforts will allow the marriage of silicon wafers and certain exotic ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
FPInnovations’ Performance Innovation Transport (PIT) is bringing its popular Energotest concept to the US, with trials slated to take place Feb. 3-7 in Texas. The testing will be conducted at the Continental Truck Tires Uvalde ...
Tags: testing, PIT, transportation
Did you know that in 1946 Albert Kaufmann designed the first Jig Saw? ?He replaced the needle in his wife's sewing machine with a blade. ?I am sure after his wife saw what he did, he spent many nights sleeping on the couch. ?Lucky for us, ...
If you have watched any of our drill or impact reviews, you are probably familiar with seeing a blue bit we use. ?In fact, we get emails all the time asking about those bits. ?A couple years back we received a request to try out some of ...
The early morning highlights from the major news organizations examine today's deadline for enrolling for health insurance that would begin Jan. 1, as well as a variety of other health law stories and several articles on mental health ...
The U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled against InterDigital in a complaint that alleged Huawei, Nokia and ZTE had infringed the company’s patents. On Thursday, the ITC upheld a previous ruling in June that found ...
Tags: Huawei, ZTE, Nokia, Patent Dispute
Thanksgiving is a time to celebrate family and friends, enjoy the fall harvest, and to stuff our faces full of delicious food. ?No matter your specific traditions, I'm certain the stuffing-of-faces is common across all Thanksgiving tables. ...
E-cigarette as relative effective way of quitting smoking has obtained follower. As a complicated quit-smoking product, ecigarette gains increasing research support. Western countries' Ministry of Public Health declared that current ...
Tags: E-Cigarette, E Cigarette, Cigarette
It's tough to shop for techies. They already own everything with a plug or rechargeable battery. But fear not, a slew of unique technology gifts have hit the market just in time for Christmas. Here's a roundup of some of the season's most ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Tech Gifts
Andrew Jackson (contributor) Celebrity endorsed headphones have become the number one player in this booming market, leading to a wealth of brands providing audio products as celebrity vehicles with little focus on audio quality. Some ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Headphone
African-American women may need to eat fewer calories or burn more than their Caucasian counterparts to lose a comparable amount of weight, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in a study published ...
Initial jobless benefit claims rose to their highest level since March in the week ended Dec.14,the Labor Department reported. The rise reflects fluctuations that usually happen around the end of the year due to holiday-related ...