Man Pays $4.88 for Plasma TV at Wal-Mart
While Wal-Mart is known for dropping its prices, one West Monroe man took the ad campaign seriously when he dropped the price of a plasma television from $984 to $4.88. Police arrested Chandon L. Simms, 23, on Tuesday at the retail store on a charge of felony theft. According to police reports, Simms carried a [...]
New Cell Can Tell If You’re Drunk
They were originally designed to simply make phone calls without tying callers to one location. But today’s cell phones can do so much more, from snapping digital photos to sending text messages to playing video. You can add one more feature to the list: a sobriety test. That’s right, cell phones with built-in Breathalyzers are [...]
High Pressure Tanning Beds
A tanning bed or sunbed is a device emitting ultraviolet radiation (typically 95% UVA and 5% UVB, +/-3%) used to produce a cosmetic tan. There are a few units called “high pressure” beds that generate only UVA, but these are much less common and much more expensive, therefore most tanning beds are those that produce [...]
Nextel’s i860
This multi-media powerhouse, the Nextel i860 packs more than a dozen top-of-the-line features into a pocket-sized package. The Nextel i860 has an integrated .3 megapixel camera with 4X zoom and pre-installed picture editing software, 10 second video capture and playback, a large color display both inside and out, and even a picture Caller ID feature.