Tennis anyone?

Well not exactly tennis. If you've ever been to Asia, you probably know what this is. Last night Charlene, her mom and I went out to a "Costco" style everything-you-need-in-one-place store and picked up one of these bad boys.

This little device is called an "ELECTRONIC MOSQUITO TRAP". It is made by the company SUPA FINE, so you know it has to be a quality product. It is basically a portable electric chair that has two isolated wire meshes on each side of a tennis racquet handle. There is a small gap of around 1/4" between the top wire and the bottom. When a mosquito or any other bug gets stuck between the two wire meshes, it completes the circuit and instantly disintigrates (making a high pitched popping sound). There is even a handy LED light on the handle that attracts the "moth to the flame".

It only uses two AA batteries. My guess is that is uses some kind of voltage multiplier circuit like those on cameras for the flash to increase the three volts from the batteries to a few thousand volts. Strangely there is no UL or CE safety marking on the product...sadly we'll never see these products legally sold in the USA.

I've been hunting around to find TV links to US sports and TV shows. As far as watching sports http://www.channelsurfing.net/ seems to be the best for NBA, UFC and other sports live. As far as US television shows and movies, http://www.ovguide.com/ is the best.

87° at 10:00am...today's going to be a hot one I think.

Jim