Days have gotten shorter, nights colder, and Jack Frost is nipping at our heels. It’s time to bust out your winter coats. But will yours pass muster or is it just passé? Check out this year’s Winter Coat Trends and decide if you need to update your outerwear this season: Animal Prints: Were everywhere […]
The Best Wines with Thanksgiving Dinner
Thanksgiving is right around the corner, you’re planning that perfect feast, and now you need to put on the finishing touches. Or maybe you don’t. Maybe you’re going to spend the day with someone who has prepared that perfect feast, and you’re the poor schmuck that doesn’t know what to bring. Either way, we’ve got […]
New Smart Outlet Saves Power
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being used to help you reduce your electric bill. Currant, a startup dedicated to making smart home devices that reduce energy consumption, has announced its first AI-driven product. The “Currant Smart Outlet,” works with a companion app that tracks real-time electricity usage and displays graphs to show where energy is being […]
Fighting Porch Pirates
We are coming on to that holiday season, and with it, a major increase in online orders and package deliveries. On average, package deliveries double during the three weeks before Christmas, which is fine, unless you are one of the 25.9 million Americans that will have a package delivery stolen this holiday season. The […]
All That Glitters is not Gold Flaked
In seeking those elusive Instagram follower fame, people have gone food-trend foolish. One of the worst seen this year is shellacking your edibles with the precious ore. Gold flake-dusted dishes seem to be everywhere these days, but why stop at flakes when your entire dish could be covered in gold? From chicken wings to chocolate, […]
Platform Sneakers Are Back!
If you loved your LA Gear chunky high-top sneakers and cried the day you finally had to face parting with them, your dreams have just come true. Platform sneakers, those crazy 90’s step aerobics-inspired footwear staples, are back with a vengeance. But these aren’t your grandma’s Jazzersize sneaks, oh no. Brands like Fila, Naked Wolfe, […]
XBox Drops One on Black Friday
Microsoft is offering its latest Xbox One X console at its lowest price point ever for Black Friday. The software maker is dropping the price to $399, a hundred dollars off the normal retail for the Black Friday bargain hunters. Microsoft’s deal will be available at a variety of retailers, but the company warns it’s […]
Amazon Cozies Up to Apple
If you’re an Amazon shopping junkie with an iPhone habit, you just hit the jackpot. The online retail behemoth has made a deal with Apple to sell all its best-selling portable communication gadgets, including iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watches direct from its website. Technically Amazon has offered Apple products before, but those have been […]
Chicken Soup is Good for the Soul…and Flu
Tis the cold and flu season, and when you’re feeling crummy, nothing seems to taste better than a comforting, steaming bowl of chicken soup. But is it, as old wives tales tell us, really going to cure what ails us? According to the National Institutes of Health, the idea of hot soup as a […]
Take A Nap!
Do you love to make like a cat and snooze away some of the afternoon hours? Don’t feel guilty about it! Turns out napping has a whole slew of health benefits, including: Makes you Leaner Turns out getting a few Z’s helps you lose weight by upping your metabolism and shifting chemicals that affect appetite, […]