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googletag.display("div-ad-articleLeader");Cot Dog BedsWashable, Indestructible, and HygienicEstimated reading time: 4 minutes See bottom for summary I have a 130lb Mastiff who, because of her size and her tendency to view everything as a chew toy, had made it nearly impossible to find a suitable dog bed.  As a large dog owner I have found (a) most  "pillow" style large dog beds were prohibitively expensive (b) not very durable (c) unhygienic and difficult to clean.   PricingI was looking for anything in the ball park of  54 inches long by 31 inches wide. That was about the space she took up when laying on her side. Depending on the material a bed that size power could run upwards of $100.00 for memory foam (overstock.com) or you could find a large micro suede bed at Wal-Mart for about $80. 00 The problem was that whether I spent $80 or $100 I was still going to run into the next problem which was durability.    DurabilityI had opted for choice number 3, DIY. I bou...

Bathroom vanities are the sink-cabinet-mirror combination. It's the showpiece of your bathroom. Here are ten things to avoid when choosing a vanity...you might be surprised. You are redoing your bathroom and there are a countless details. After getting lost in the practicalities, you stop for break. Something catches your attention. You take a careful look at the new mirror you've just installed. You notice that you're looking straight at. ..your chin. You wonder if they delivered the wrong size. Then you remember that you were sitting electric in a chair at the showroom when you decided that this was your dream come true. Why didn't you think to check if you could use it as well standing up? Choosing the Floor Model's Sizing. Many, maybe most people choose style and design without considering height. Height is often a more important element of the vanity for daily use. The common 30 inch size bathroom counter is just not optimum for people over 63 inches tall...

Bathroom vanities are the sink-cabinet-mirror combination. It's the showpiece of your bathroom. Here are ten things to avoid when choosing a vanity...you might be surprised. You are redoing your bathroom and there are a countless details. After getting lost in the practicalities, you stop for break. Something catches your attention. You take a careful look at the new mirror you've just installed. You notice that you're looking straight at. ..your chin. You wonder if they delivered the wrong size. Then you remember that you were sitting electric in a chair at the showroom when you decided that this was your dream come true. Why didn't you think to check if you could use it as well standing up? Choosing the Floor Model's Sizing. Many, maybe most people choose style and design without considering height. Height is often a more important element of the vanity for daily use. The common 30 inch size bathroom counter is just not optimum for people over 63 inches tall...

When it comes to finding a mattress that feels just right, there's a lot to consider. Are you large or small? Do you always sleep on your back or do you switch from your tummy to your side? Do you usually sleep alone or with a partner? It's important to think about your answers and then visit a mattress showroom like the CJ Mulholland Mattress Factory in Hamilton where you can try out a wide range of mattresses before you buy. Experts agree you should always lie on a mattress for at least 15 minutes before edge deciding whether it's comfortable or not because some mattresses take that long to conform and adjust to the shape and warmth of your body. It's also a good idea to bring along the pillow you sleep with to make sure you'll still find it comfortable once it's in your home. Firm or extra firm mattresses are good for back sleepers or tummy sleepers because they provide the best support for the spine. Sleeping on a softer mattress can cause the spine to...

Building a business in the modern world can be hard due to the fierce competition in all industries. This competition often forces small-scale businesses, who lack funding, to shut down. We all know the commonly told statistic that around 90% of startup companies fail within their first few years. Although this may sound daunting, it does not mean that all innovators need to abandon their business dreams—quite the opposite really. Those individuals who are interested in the battery business world simply need to understand how much it costs to start up a business. By knowing the relative costs, they will be able to spend their money wisely and hopefully turnover more profits. This, in turn, ought to allow them to survive in this harsh business climate. Quite often we see businesses failing as they have failed to pay attention to the finer details. As such, I would like to explore the costs of these finer details which, more often than not, can determine the success or failure of a ne...

A couple of weeks ago, I had a moment of rude awakening. It was 11.45pm on a Friday night and I was lying in bed with my best beloved, paying him no attention whatsoever. In fact, it suddenly occurred to me that I'd just spent an hour reading friends' Facebook posts, with the occasional detour to browse Fifties' frocks on eBay. My other half, meanwhile, was totally focused on a laptop trawl through political opinion pieces with which he violently disagreed. Every five minutes or so he would laugh cynically, or mutter: "Imbecile…"We hadn't spoken since we brushed our teeth and our bodies weren't touching: we might as well have been in separate rooms, separate space stations, galaxies apart. I said loudly: "This is how the human race will disappear. Not climate change, not fire or ice – but no one ever having sex again because we can't prise custom our wild, staring, bloodshot eyes away from ruddy screens."My love and I are in danger of beco...

When students living in Berkeley, Calif., crave a chicken burrito with an extra heaping of guacamole at High Tech Burrito, a Bay Area-based fast-food chain, they need to remember to bring only two things — an empty stomach and a forefinger.That's because even when they leave their wallets in their other pair of pants, they can pay up by simply using their fingerprints.High Tech Burrito is one of 2,100 stores in 44 states that are or have been clients of Pay By battery Touch, a company that lets customers use biometric identification — body-based measurements unique to each person — instead of cash or a credit card to pay their bills. Click here to visit FOXNews. com's Cybersecurity Center. For Pay By Touch and its clients and customers, biometrics is the cutting edge of convenience and consumer technology.For critics, biometrics straddles the line between privacy rights and identity security on one side and the selling-out of personal data on the other."Paying by card is...

So you want an electric toothbrush. Maybe you're ready to step up from the random powerless model you pick up at the store whenever you remember. Or maybe you've owned the same electric model for years and, until now, you've been unwilling or unable to break the power of routine. Well, you've got a lot to think about. The electric toothbrush market has exploded in the last few years. A new wave of toothbrushes has arrived, with sleeker designs, new charging techniques, new modes, and new materials. And if your electric toothbrush doesn't have a built-in two-minute timer in 30-second intervals—a handy reminder to help you focus on one quadrant of your mouth at a time—then you're brushing in the past. But be warned: For best results, every electric toothbrush requires a new manufacturing brush head every three months or so. That's a hidden expense worth pricing out when choosing the best brush for your budget. Aside from budget, there's plenty more to c...

Summer is in full swing in Oklahoma and the kids, grandkids, nieces, nephews and, well, just about everyone we know is in Lake Zumwalt to cool down. My wife has purchased enough pool toys to fill Lake Zumwalt, so I figured I would join the pool toy fray with WiFi Paddle Boat.WiFi Paddle Boat is a paddle boat controlled via wifi using a smart phone, tablet or other touch enabled device. WiFi Paddle Boat creates a wifi access point (much like the small sport cameras) that you connect to via your wifi enabled bus device wifi settings. Then, using your wifi touch enabled device web browser, you simply navigate to the WiFi Paddle Boat web page and off you go! The controls for WiFi Paddle Boat are identical to those of my "Lady Buggy" and "Santa Sleigh" designs so it's easy for the grandkids to operate.A word of caution; I designed WiFi Paddle Boat to be "splash resistant" not "water proof", so if a rogue wave, grandchild, niece, nephew, etc. ...

After decades of fits and starts, virtual reality is finally ready for prime time-and it could deliver strong growth for investors who get in now. A May report from investment bank Piper Jaffray called virtual reality and augmented reality (more on the difference between the two a little further on) "the next mega tech themes through 2030." But patience is key: "We liken the state of virtual and augmented reality today as similar to the state of mobile phones 15 years ago," wrote Piper's analysts. For most people, VR is just another way of playing video games, but it has big potential in many other areas. One of those is health care: right now, for example, psychiatrists at the University of Louisville are using virtual reality headsets to put phobic patients in the situations that frighten them-think bags fear of flying or public speaking-but in a controlled way, helping them overcome their anxiety. Looking Up So how big of a market could we talking abo...

After decades of fits and starts, virtual reality is finally ready for prime time-and it could deliver strong growth for investors who get in now. A May report from investment bank Piper Jaffray called virtual reality and augmented reality (more on the difference between the two a little further on) "the next mega tech themes through 2030." But patience is key: "We liken the state of virtual and augmented reality today as similar to the state of mobile phones 15 years ago," wrote Piper's analysts. For most people, VR is just another way of playing video games, but it has big potential in many other areas. One of those is health care: right now, for example, psychiatrists at the University of Louisville are using virtual reality headsets to put phobic patients in the situations that frighten them-think bags fear of flying or public speaking-but in a controlled way, helping them overcome their anxiety. Looking Up So how big of a market could we talking abo...

Sometimes you just need to refresh your environment to feel better. I love my house that was built in 1978 but when I would go into the kitchen I felt like I was surrounded by too much "80's Oak". Time to freshen up! It all started when my oven/range went out. It was a drop in model and kept beeping and beeping and beeping....it was hard wired and I could not get it to stop. I decided to add a plug with my new range so that if that happened again I could unplug it. I didn't realize that ranges are different sizes. I never thought about it and thought they riding were pretty much all a standard size. Nope, the slide in that I bought was one inch wider than the drop in had been. What to do? I decided to cut a half inch off each side of the cabinets, counter top, etc....to make it fit. Hey, I never said I make the best decisions! I learned a valuable lesson about measuring before buying. I won't make that mistake again. I am certainly no professional in home...