Save by Shopping for Drugstore Finds Online. Experts explore the conveniences and savings of shopping for personal goods online.
We all shop at local drugstores for health and beauty needs, but with gas prices on the rise, online drugstores are a great way to get all of your personal items without leaving the comfort of your home. As an added bonus, shopping online can actually save you money versus shopping at a brick and mortar store. Online drugstores offer many of the same brands and products that are available to you at your local retailer.
In fact, with Amazon.com's Subscribe and Save program, you can save up to 15 percent off your go-to cleaning supplies, baby care products and more. Shipping is free, and you can even set how often your delivery comes. With sites like Drugstore.com and Soap.com, you can stock up on hygiene and beauty products, and score free shipping after reaching a certain dollar amount in your shopping cart. So, the next time you need to replenish your toiletries, think twice about driving to the store. Things that make me smile (: / How cool.
The five technologies that will transform homes of the future. You get home from work on a Tuesday evening.
Sensing your arrival, your home turns on the lights in the living room and kitchen. You stop by the bathroom and step on your Internet-connected scale—it absorbs your day's activity levels from a clip-on fitness monitoring device, then logs them on a website along with your sleeping activity and health history. After making dinner, you sit down in front of the TV and tell it you want to buy a series you heard about on the way home from work. It responds to your voice, and in a few seconds downloads the entire first season over a gigabit connection. The series automatically downloads to your tablet, too, so you'll have it available on the go tomorrow.
We've been sold on such technological visions for years, but they always seem to be "three to five years" out. Super high-speed Internet Gigabit fiber connections remain the technological equivalent of Evil Knievel stunt-jumping a row of buses. A Huge List of Cool Stuff. Android integration comes to your car's mirror [w/video] LucyPhone.com - Never Wait on Hold Again.
Crime Map Beta. I Am Unreasonably Excited About This Thermostat. I consider myself a computer geek -- I'm comfortable with that.
But today I'm having a new feeling: apparently I'm a thermostat geek. Yesterday I came across the Nest "Learning Thermostat," which has been making the rounds of nerd blogs. Basically, this is a computer-driven thermostat with some fancy features: wifi, various sensors, a HAL-like Big Red Eye, and even remote control (via wifi/web). There's also an aspect of gameplay built into the thing -- much like some hybrid cars have an indicator showing you when you're driving "optimally," the Nest shows a green leaf to urge you in the direction of using less energy (for example, in the winter it may show the leaf for a setting a few degrees cooler than you'd normally use -- encouraging you to use less heat).
And finally, it actually has moving, physical parts (a ring), rather than the awful, awful touchscreen on my current thermostat (don't try to turn on the heat in the dark using my current thermostat -- it's impossible).