April 29th, 2004
Herbal Hard Drive Cleaner
Now that we know that green tea is good for almost anything that ails us, how about things that ail hard drives? Yeah, you got it… John Lombardi, at Ventana Research based in Tucson, Arizona in the US, somehow figured out that the tannin in tea, mixed with a few other herbal ingredients, can be used to polish the read/write heads of hard drives. Apparently it works better than the compounds now used and it’s environmentally friendly. Next week we’ll discover a common household use for bananas and your sound cards…












