by Ben Oaks | Jun 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
Living in the Pittsburgh Area near the Allegheny County/Beaver County Line? Notice your 4G signal is even more awesome than normal? Thank Verizon for their new 4G tower site. This tower now brings increased 4G coverage to the area. Thanks to Verizon’s ongoing...
by Andy Quayle | Jun 10, 2012 | Vehicle Tech
On the way back from my overnight stay north east of Pittsburgh today I paid a little attention to the Energy Information for my demo Chevrolet Volt. Admittedly I’m not the…. slowest… driver on the road and I don’t like to get stuck behind anyone overly slow. If I...
by Ben Oaks | Jun 2, 2012 | Generally Cool Stuff
Who says American intuition is dead. Jack Andraka, a high school student from Maryland has developed a new method to detect Pancreatic Cancer. Jack had entered the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Jack created a dipstick sensor that could detect Early...
by Andy Quayle | Jun 1, 2012 | Vehicle Tech
This is fairly old news but it is still relative. Maybe more so now than ever. Relative to my string of Chevy Volt posts on here I had heard that Giant Eagle had installed a vehicle charging station at one of their Squirrel Hill stores. So, I took a ride over there,...
by Andy Quayle | May 26, 2012 | Generally Cool Stuff
I was lucky enough to be invited to a press tour of the new CSL building at the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens here in Pittsburgh this week. There’ll be pictures and a more in depth post this week but for now, here’s the press release. Pittsburgh,...
