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Karen Field

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Karen Field is editor-in-chief of Design News. Email her your examples of products that somehow slipped by the QC cops for Design News' Made by Monkeys blog!

Title: Design News Editor-in-Chief

Email: kfield@reedbusiness.com

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El Cheapo Flashlight Doubles as Paper Clip Holder

Brit John Goldsmith sent in this example of an el cheapo shake-to-light flashlight he purchased at a filling station - it was a discounted offer if you bought enough petrol. Well, he got what he paid for, though given the price of petrol in the UK, the station probably could have given away a Surefire flashlight . “As the closeup photo shows, the power comes from a magnet... More

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Raise Your Hand if You Don't Have a Faulty XBox

Our sister publication Electronics Weekly has written about the Xbox 360 before - see Xbox 360 Recall: Penny Wise, Pound Foolish and Xbox Faults Cost Microsoft . Now they’re commenting on a new report that has looked further into the failure rates of Microsoft’s gaming console. A rather astonishing 23.7% have problems within the first two years…The study by... More

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Home-Built EFI Computer for Your Car

Today’s column is about Megasquirt, an EFI ( Electronic Fuel Injection ) computer that you can build. Maybe you own a hotrod (or clunker), and while you love it for sentimental reasons, you wish it had the driveability of today’s fuel injected cars: No more pumping the gas pedal while starting, good gas mileage combined with power, easy starting either hot or cold. With... More

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Misdirected Directions: The Baby Food Label

Jon Titus sends in this seal from a baby food jar with one extremely helpful warning on it.  Glad they included the 800 number, just in case! More

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Cool Motor Kits for Future Engineers

Greetings fellow gadgeteers! In this blog post, I will take a look at some electronics projects for kids. Like many of you, I have kids that are at that impressionable age where they can hopefully be steered towards an honorable life spent in a field such engineering, science, or plumbing, and away from such disreputable activities as ticket scalping or lawyering. To that end I present some... More
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