Your TV is trying to kill your children. Your DVD player is trying to kill your children. Your robot lawnmower is trying to kill your children. And now, your blinds—your soft roman blinds!—are trying to kill your children.
The recall, which covers virtually every roman shade and roller blind in the country, was prompted after a series of tragic strangulations—about eight over the last ten years, along with over a dozen injuries—were blamed on the blinds, which the children can become entangled in. In case you're like most other human beings and don't know the technical name for the thing that hanging in front of your windows, here's what Roman and roller shades look like:
On both types, it's the hanging drawstring that's most dangerous to tots. On the Roman shades, the strings running down the length of the fabric can be safety hazards too.
It's a recall prompted by some no-doubt horrible tragedies, and I'm sure the Consumer Product Safety Commission wouldn't have negotiated a recall this massive unless there was a real risk here, but in a video breaking down the various dangers of these blinds with the chair of the CPSC, ABC somehow managed to make this Very Serious Thing seem ridiculous. I quote:
Any loop is the enemy of children.
Recall all loops! This is the only solution. [ABC]
Scientists at MIT’s 
It's pretty obvious that Palm's going to be debuting a new device at CES, seeing as they were the highlight of last year's event, but what is it going to be?
They may look simple, but our red blood cells are the sophisticated result of evolution. So to create new ways to study our bodies and perhaps even disperse drugs to different organs and body parts, scientists played copycat. A team of researchers announced this week that they have developed synthetic red blood cells that mimic our natural ones in both form and function. They describe their 
Phaidon, publisher of the best-looking books on the planet, just released Pioneers, 
If your optical disk drive has been making oddly loud sounds when you start or wake your Mac from a slumber, then the EFI firmware update released by Apple is supposedly the cure. Is anyone hearing a difference?
This isn't the first iPod-compatible jacket 
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