Word: vacuums
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Having packed up after the International Housewares Show in Chicago last week, Salton product manager John Howell is still bursting with pride for what he claims is a first: the $300 Westinghouse Unplugged Cord-Free Vacuum, a full-size vacuum cleaner that runs on rechargeable batteries and is due out in June. "This," he says in dead earnest, as if showgoers had never seen a Dustbuster, "is completely revolutionary...
Some of the most practical gizmos were the simplest. Cordless was big. In addition to the vacuum cleaner, Maytag, Panasonic and Euro-Pro were all hawking cordless clothes irons. At $25, Select Brand's battery-powered corkscrew was both cheap and useful, taking only seconds to uncork a bottle of Chardonnay in our tests...
...most patient-friendly method of treating erectile dysfunction," says Dr. Ira Sharlip, assistant clinical professor of urology at the University of California at San Francisco. Although Viagra doesn't work for everyone, it's what most patients want to try first, before turning to such alternatives as injections, vacuum pumps and surgical implants. Perhaps all those unsolicited e-mail come-ons are a small price to pay after...
...each two-to three-minute film, Wallace concocts a daft labor-saving robot--meant to serve dinner or overcome a burglar or produce Christmas cards or vacuum up cracker crumbs--while Gromit watches in mute exasperation or buries his snout in a favorite book (one is Men Are from Mars, Dogs Are from Pluto). Something usually goes explosively wrong, but that doesn't dampen either Wallace's enthusiasm or Gromit's obligation to restore the status...
After graduation, Lavietes worked at the family basket factory in Shelton, where he lived for most of his life. He eventually inherited the factory and, over the years, converted it into a toolkit factory and then into a wet/dry vacuum factory...