Aqua Globe Review: Do As Seen On TV Products Work?
The Aqua Globe, a "handblown glass ornament that waters your plants for you," contains a colored glass bulb attached to an elongated stem. You fill the bulb with water, jam the stem into a houseplant's soil, and the globe releases water as [... more]
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Awesome Auger: Do As-Seen-on-TV Products Work?
The Awesome Auger "takes the hard work out of yard work." Just attach it to any electric drill and its ski-pole style, solid-steel, "spiral, laser-sharp edge" cuts a path for the crescent-shape disk to rotate and dig. It bores post [... more]
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Do As Seen on TV Products Work? Samurai Shark Review
We tested the claims of one late night As Seen On TV tool to sharpen blunt blades galore. The results? Not so sharp. After test cuts with dull scissors and knife blades, we measured the improvement in cut speed and ease after sharpening with the ... [... more]
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Test Criteria
We ran fresh batteries through each light until they completely ran out of juice. We dropped the lights onto concrete from as high as 20 ft. Surprisingly, all three survived all falls with only cosmetic damage. We turned these lights on a ... [... more]
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Handle a blowout
Use snow tires on all four corners. (On nondriving wheels, they maintain traction and prevent spinouts during braking or steering.) Tall, narrow tires have more contact pressure than wide ones do, so they're better at cutting through snow down to ... [... more]
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Keeping a Drill from Becoming a Bad Trip
Insert two short lengths of thin, insulated copper wire in the hole before adding the screw. Be sure to use stranded wire, not solid. It allows the screw to bite and is less likely to cause it to jam. The standard tactic since the dawn of the ... [... more]
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