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Manufacturer AJoka has come out with a spy camera that looks like an ordinary AC charger. It comes with a 2GB Micro SD card inside, and can record up to 66 hours of audio and video. It has a built-in lithium battery, so when it’s not plugged into a wall socket, it can record 3 hours of audiovideo stuff.

It would seem the best place to put it is in an AC outlet — assuming that outlet is high on the wall. Otherwise, you’d be recording dust bunnies under your bed, or people’s feet as they wander by. There are some rude places you could put it too, but most moral people wouldn’t do that, would they?

AJoka only sells wholesale, so you’ll have to wait until a store like Radio Shack puts it on shelves (yeah, right).

It never ceases to amaze me just how many ways there are to open a jar. If you accept the department stores’ idea of an opener, you’re only given one choice: A piece of floppy rubber that fits around the top of the jar and you just turn the lid and it, reportedly, opens the jar.But there are fancier, and possibly more effective, ways to open a jar.

Opening a jar has truly become a science. There are many products out there to open your jar, and all are dedicated to the same goal: To help you get to your pickles (or whatever) so you can eat them. All are made of rubber, or simulated rubber (simulated rubber is made, no doubt, from a simulated rubber tree).

Exhibit A:
At right is an approach that looks like something that came off the engine of a car — sort of like a miniature serpentine belt. It’s a hard-rubber product and comes in a five-pack. It’s made by the Handy company, and is known as the “Grip Mate.”

It comes complete with “teeth” that reportedly help the rubber grip the lid, which you can see on the jar of salmonella-less jar of peanut butter. Now, you young folks can poo-poo the idea of removing lids from jars, but old folks take it more seriously, since their grip typically lessens over the years. But hold on, now: Before you start thinking this is only a product for the older people, consider this: Have you ever tried to open a jar lid with greasy hands? Pounded a lid with the handle a knife? Run a jar’s lid under hot water?

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