Coca-Cola's "Freestyle" suicide-making machine is so last week. Hitachi's come up with its own little gimmick that's even crazier: paying for a drink with your biometrics. We've seen Hitachi's finger vein authentication system before in cars. Now, machines installed in...

Somewhere in Asia, there must be rooms full of people who's incomes depend on coming up with a steady stream of questionable USB powered accessories. For a while they were cute, like the alarm clock fan, and head massager,...