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We know immediately cooling the brain after a stroke can help preserve neurological function by reducing swelling.  Making the brain chilly is also effective in saving lives and brain capabilities after heart attacks and after infant oxygen deprivation.  Products like Kool-Kit are already on the market to strategically lower the temperature of important parts of the body.

Last Friday, I did my yearly social duty and visited my CPA in Manhattan to do the dreaded taxes deed, and to assuage my aching heart and walloped wallet, I always first visit Circuit City on the corner of 14th Street and 4th Avenue in Union Square to put my hands on all the latest technology.  Unfortunately, Circuit City is now kaput -- but I was pleasantly pleased to see a Best Buy store in the same Circuit City spot.

Yesterday's announcement of the iPad left me feeling disappointed.  There's no built-in camera at all -- let alone a forward-facing one for doing live iChats -- and the thing doesn't do voice and it doesn't multitask and it doesn't have a lot of storage.  "An iPlop in the toilet bowl," was my first thought in the flushing.

If you love SpeedTest, then you will really love PingTest! As the internets get faster and as broadband becomes a basic way of life in our personal and public lives, knowing how your local computer is competing -- quality wise -- with the rest of the world in delivering rich content, is important.

When I was growing up in New Jersey, I would dream of one day driving a car and being able to go wherever I wanted. I knew that it would be years before I would actually be able to steer and control an actual car but there was a way in which I could exert some kind of power over not just one car but many cars at once -- the crosswalk button at most intersections. Pressing that button gave me a dramatic injection of power and, as I have now learned, a dose of unwitting, medicinal, gullibility.

soundAMP is one of those ten dollar chunks of software you cannot live without if you have an iPhone.  soundAMP brings "Super Hearing" to your ears using amplification and a simple-to-use interface.

For a long time, I did not think this day would ever come. I thought I would surely be using my Blackberry 8700c for years to come. (That review, by the way, is the reason I bought the phone!) Then, as time passed, things began to deteriorate. It just didn't run as well as it used to. Then came the day on which I couldn't turn the phone on at all, and I discovered that now if I wanted to turn on the phone from an off state, I had to completely remove the battery and put it back in. Then the scroll wheel started skipping. I decided that it was time for a new phone, and since I knew that Apple has been releasing new hardware in June I decided to wait for what I was sure was going to be the new iPhone 3GS.