TAG RESULTS FOR: money

Depositing checks can really be a nuisance if you think about it. Remember that $12 check your Grandma sent you for your birthday last year that you never got to depositing? Sure…it’s only $12, but I mean come on, it’s $12 you don’t have. The problem is laziness. Laziness to get your geeky ass in the car and drive 20 seconds to the nearest bank. Thanks to technology, even laziness can be efficient. Customers of USAA banks can now deposit... Continue reading

Japanese company ELPA has introduced a meter that plugs between your AC and your electric appliance to measure the amount of electricity drawn out. Apart from just measuring the usual energy consumption over time in Watts, it also tells you how much you should be expecting to pay – in terms of yen according to standardized Japanese power charges. What’s more is that it calculates the amount of Carbon Dioxide incurred, so you can call that up with a button... Continue reading

Takara-TOMY showcased an updated version of the Jinsei Ginko Life Bank, instead of storing 500 yen coins, the new model will simply be a counter that you mount on water bottles, and it will count the number of 1 yen coins ($0.01) you have pushed through. Each counter can go up to 9999, but at the Toy Forum the company displayed 100,000,000 coins ($800,000) in bottles just to wow people who did not pick up the impracticality of such obsession.

Are those credit cards pileing up in your wallet? Well, first off, you probably shouldn’t have that many cards, but if you insist, there might be something to come to your rescue. The iCache lets you register your credit cards online so that all of those credit cards can stay at home. The iCache keeps your card info secure (of course) through its fingerprint reader which allows the company to boast that the iCache has “biometric data security”. So really,... Continue reading