Car accidents are a horrible thing to be involved in, but one thing is for sure– you’re much better off preparing for the worst of them than pretending you’ll never be in one. This battery-operated aerodynamic “hammer” cuts through seatbelts, breaks glass, punctures airbags, and even glows in the dark. It also has a miniature [...]

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This morning, my friend told me that people who text or make calls while driving are up to 23 percent more likely to get in a fatal car crash. Personally, I don’t see how any text could be so important that YOU MUST REPLY TO IT, and you must reply to it right now while [...]

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For those of you, that like myself, drive beater cars, every day is an adventure in whether or not you can get your vehicle moving. It’s like a game of surprise: what will go wrong today? Which part of the engine will break? Will it be my left or right front wheel that flies off [...]

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On average, a person spends 25% of their lifetime looking for lost stuff. We spend about 20 years hunting for keys, phones, bags, shoes– but one of the most annoying searches? Trying to find your %$#&* car in the parking lot. The Zoombak Universal GPS Locator is the perfect tool for saving us wasted time [...]

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These days it’s really, really difficult to feel totally cut off from the rest of the world. Every device connects to every other device, to the internet, and usually wireless-ly. But there’s always a chance that you might push your luck and end up somewhere without access to the internet or GPS, without people, or [...]

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While writing about yesterday’s purse-o’-seatbelts, I was reminded of my mother. Not because she has a fabulous purse, but because you cannot get in a car, anytime, anywhere without her huffing and sighing and b*tching about how “the seatbelt is trying to strangle her oh my G-D it’s so unCOMfortable.” After 24 years of this, [...]

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So yesterday morning was fun.
It was raining, it was early, I was freezing. I go to get into my car to go to work, shove the key into the ignition, turn it, and…
nothing.
Nothing happened. At all. No noises, no lights, and apparently? No battery. Woke up the boy. Tried to jump the car. Nothing. Decided [...]

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