The Snowdozer snow and ice remover

For those who have to deal with snow as an annual thing or in (our case a daily thing) this time of year, the Snowdozer can help aide in a very tedious task of scraping snow, ice and other stuff off your car windows and windshield. For the reasonable price of $17, the Snowdozer will scrape the crap both forward and backward thanks to a double-blade design. It’s front handle reduces strain and its extendable, telescoping arm allows for easily reaching far across the windshield of larger cars.

McDonald's to start accepting contactless Visa payments in all UK restaurants by

The UK already has a big old investment in contactless technology with London's rather successful Oystercard travel scheme, but now the whole Kingdom can get a taste for airborne payments thanks to a new initiative from McDonald's and Visa. The two giants of commerce are uniting to bring NFC tech to all of the former's 1,200 fast food restaurants within the UK, allowing hungry Brits to pay for meals costing up to £15 by simply waving their credit card in front of the till Obi-wan-style. Of course, the real excitement of such large-scale NFC proliferation is in the potential to use those automated tills with your Nexus S (which has an NFC chip built right in) and other devices coming up this year that look set to feature the technology. So yeah, Visa had better be working hard on putting together some mobile apps.