Can You Still Buy "Cheap" Gold?

Lately the price of gold is going up, up, and up some more. But it may still be possible to buy "cheap" gold in order to protect your wealth and make some easy money. In fact, according to investment expert Louis Navellier, you can buy gold for about $310 an ounce... even though the extremely precious metal is currently trading at over $1100 per ounce.

The key is to invest in a gold mining company -- GoldCorp, Inc. -- that is able to produce gold at relatively low costs due to their highly streamlined mining processes. Buying this company's stock (up 125% in the last year) is, according to Navellier, one of the best and most-profitable ways to ride the current wave of skyrocketing gold prices.

If, as many experts predict, gold reaches $2000 an ounce in the near future, owning shares of GoldCorp may turn out to be a very golden opportunity indeed!

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Cool Google Stuff: Real Time Search, Google Goggles

It looks like the world's greatest search engine company Google is up to their old tricks. They have launched two incredibly cool new services: Real Time Search and "Google Goggles". The first allows you to view extremely "fresh" information about the topic you're searching as it's being created in real-time. Examples include live Twitter tweets, news articles, blog posts, Yahoo Answers, and new web pages. This service will even be available on mobile smartphones, including Apple iPhones and Google Android phones.

The second new service/product, Google Goggles, is about as cool and useful as they come. It's basically a "visual search" product that allows you to take a photo of something and have Google instantly recognize it and then provide you with useful related information. Imagine being able to take a pic of a wine bottle or book at a store, before buying, and then viewing all the most-useful vintage info or reader reviews (e.g. from Amazon.com). It will even be able to recognize text and read product bar codes, making the usage possibilities almost endless!

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Zhu Zhu Pets: A Possible Recall?

Zhu Zhu hamster pets, the ultra-popular, ultra-cute robotic toy from Cepia LLC, may have some not-so-cute toxic chemical problems. If it's true, there may be a Zhu Zhu pet product recall coming in the near future! According to consumer group Good Guide, the toys may be unsafe for children due to relatively high levels of antimony, a chemical that can cause serious health problems. They also found unacceptable levels of tin and bromine. Of course the makers of Zhu Zhu pets says that there products are 100% safe for children and have passed rigorous tests for contaminants. They say they want to know exactly how GoodGuide tested the toys and determined that there were problems.

So for now, it's probably OK to keep buying those cute and cuddly robot hamsters for your kids. Just don't let them eat or lick them!

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Wireless Electricity Is On the Way!

We already have wireless internet and Bluetooth. But what about wireless electricity? It looks like it's on the way, according to a new company called WiTricity. They say that their new wireless electric systems will be able to power lights, TVS, computers, and even electric cars... all without any power cords. Intel Corp is also working on similar technology.

It's all based on pretty old ideas mainly created by famous inventor Nikola Tesla, the creator of the alternating current (AC) power system that we use today. Tesla actually was able to demonstrate low-power wire-free electrical conduction all the back in the 1890s. Good to know it's only taken over a century to get back on track with this potentially extremely useful technology! Of course the scientists who are working on this, including some of the smartest people in the world at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, need to make sure it's safe and won't be "cooking" its users!

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Obama: Plan Will Jump-Start Business Hiring

There's been some surprisingly good news about job losses in the US. And there will soon be even more, according to President Obama. He says that a new proposal he'll roll out next week will help to "jump-start" hiring across the country. The most important part of the plan is a set of new tax breaks for small businesses that hire new employees. The plan will also help states pay government employees, give people money to make their homes more energy efficient, and increase federal spending on infrastructure (roads and bridges) construction.

Let's hope this works... because America definitely needs more jobs!

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