When vaping first came on the scene in China and in Europe in 2003, it was touted as a replacement that was 95 percent better for you than cigarette smoking. While the trend did not start to take hold in the United States until 2007, largely due to regulation issues, the users of vapes have grown significantly. As the number ...

More and more consumers and investing in recreational boating, and the numbers are telling: boat statistics show that in 2014, approximately 87.3 million Americans participated in recreational boating in 2014, compared to 67.5 million in 2000. Furthermore, Trade News Today, a daily trade publication in the marine industry, found that boat sales were up 5% in 2016 compared to the ...

Technology has a way of improving practically every aspect of our lives. One area that this is particularly noticeable is in guns. It seems like every year a new gun comes out that takes us closer to the futuristic weapons we’ve seen only in science fiction movies and video games. To see what we mean, check out these eight recent ...

The end of last year marked some great news for people with their eyes on the job market. In December, the economy added 148,000 jobs. This marked 87 straight months of job gains, something that anyone could appreciate. “The real mystery is why hasn’t wage growth really picked up?” says Michael Arone, chief investment strategist at State Street Global Advisors. “That ...

In the distant 2004 year, the beautiful game The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap was released. The gaming product was meant for the portable console Game Boy Advance. It has become popular very fast owing to its classic gameplay related to the study of the world and puzzle solving. On the top of that, it featured a great visual ...

Living in a dorm can be a challenging time in your college life. Sharing a room with strangers from different backgrounds and lifestyles is generally a mixed bag. If you’re lucky, the people you encounter get to become your lifelong friends. If you’re not lucky, well, college is typically only four years anyway. To make dorm living – and college ...

It can be all too easy to play Monday morning quarterback about an entire plethora of topics. Hindsight is, after all, 20/20, especially when it’s someone who was not at all involved in the incident using that hindsight. You drove into a ditch swerving to avoid a squirrel? You shouldn’t have swerved for a squirrel. You shouldn’t have eaten fried ...

There are hundreds of options these days when it comes to choosing the right technology for your business, and it’s incredibly easy to think that you need every new product to come out, which can be wasteful and unnecessary. However, it’s just as easy to go the other way and think that your business can be completely organic of the ...

Automation might be the buzzword in many industries, but pardon the mining industry if this craze doesn’t register as particularly novel. After all, while organizations around the world were going wild over these new-fangled computers in the 1980s, the mining industry was attempting to automate surface mining equipment weighing in the hundreds of tons. Those three-plus decades of dedication to ...

Gaming has never been a bigger business than it is today. With the release of movie-based games, high-seas adventures and the very popular tower defense genre, gaming computer rigs are literally flying off the shelves – with people wanting bigger and better systems each year. This doesn’t even account yet for the rise of virtual reality, which is expected to ...