Category: Technology
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Golf: Sports Shades
These amber-tinted MaxSight contact lenses from Nike filter out blue light to reduce glare and improve the visibility of baseballs, tennis balls and other moving targets. A gray-green version gives golfers an edge by enhancing the dips and curves of a distant putting green. Orioles second baseman Brian Roberts credits his MaxSights with boosting his…
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A Day in the Life: New Furnace #5
I arrived home this evening and cast my eyes upon the new thermostat. With its 6cm high display and 2.5cm high characters I was able to read it from the front door. It reported 70F. While we do live in a metric country I chose to have the temperature set in Fahrenheit. Why? More precision,…
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A Day in the Life: New Furance #4
“Is it on?” “It must be, it’s getting warmer” “Wow, it’s quiet”
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A Day in the Life: New Furance #3
The homeowner’s guide for the thermostat has 31 pages and starts with: Your decision to choose the Carrier Infinity Control puts you in a select group of homeowners who understand the value of precise comfort control and appreciate the simplicity of an easy-to-use, intuitive, user interface. It astonishing to me that the manufacturer could so…
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A Day in the Life: New Furnace #2
in: GadgetAs previously noted we are having a new furnace installed. The labourers are still here, but they just installed the thermometer: it has a scroll button!!!