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Weird Product: Big Mouth Billy Bass, Meet Alexa
Big Mouth Billy Bass has received an upgrade from Amazon. The dancing and singing mounted fish, popularized in the early 2000s as a must-have for cabins

Video: “The Pharmacy of the Future? Personalized Pills, 3D Printed at Home”
Daniel Kraft, physician-scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur, shares his view of the future of personalized medicine through a prototype 3D printer that could design pills that

Deals for National Cookie Day!
Today (Dec. 4) is National Cookie Day! Celebrate the occasion by treating yourself to America’s most popular dessert. Many companies are getting in on the

Lame-duck session need not be lame for consumers
This article was originally published on December 1, 2018, in The Hill. After an election, Congress occasionally holds a “lame-duck session” to tidy up outstanding

Man Down: Man-Size Tissues No More
What is in a name? For the past 60 years, when faced with a sneeze or perhaps a manly “eye-water,” gents in the U.K. could

It’s almost like we finish each other’s…sentences
Putting words in your mouth/Word doc Authors with writer’s block need no longer worry: Artificial Intelligence is here to help. Robin Sloan, a New York

Regulators Propose Oversight for Lab-Grown Meat
Food regulators recently announced their oversight plan for the production of lab-grown meat. Last month, two federal agencies — the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Event: (Re)Defining Consumer Protection in America
Consumers’ Research hosted a panel discussion of the meaning and challenges of consumer protection at Capitol Hill on Thursday. The discussion, titled “(Re)Defining Consumer Protection

Weird Product Review: Meditation Headbands
A Canadian company recently released its second model of a brain-scanning headband meant to help consumers meditate. This fall, Interaxon released the Muse 2, a $250
Supreme Court Considers App Store Monopoly Suit
The Supreme Court is considering whether a class-action lawsuit against Apple over its App Store’s commission policies has enough grounding to proceed. If allowed, the