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Save by Shopping for Drugstore Finds Online -- Savings Experiment. 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. The tech we do get never seems to work quite as seamlessly as the futurists suggest. Super high-speed Internet Smart thermostats and the future of power. A Huge List of Cool Stuff.

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