Byline: Jim Mateja
Dec. 1--CHICAGO--Thanks to the Internet and a never-ending supply of e-mail promotions, consumers now have access to a variety of innovative products for the opening of the holiday buying season.
Looking for an automotive gift for that hard-to-shop-for friend or relative?
Just open your e-mail and find relief, a most appropriate choice of words considering one of the products we found is TravelJohn.
You just finished your 36th cup of coffee, hopped in the sedan and slithered onto the expressway.
As you find yourself locked in bumper-to-bumper traffic, you hear nature's call over the sounds coming from the CD player--and nature isn't using the cell phone.
Or, you have the kids packed in the car for the trip to Grandma's house and halfway there in the middle of the wilderness, the kids hear nature's call.
Time to call on TravelJohn, the Irvine, Calif., maker of bathroom emergency products such as the Flexible Commode, the Foldable Commode and the Privacy Tent.
You might not have room on board for a flexible or foldable commode much less a tent, so TravelJohn has come up with disposable urinal pouches ($5.99 for a three pack) sold under the TravelJohn name.
Don't snicker. The pouches were used by the Federal Emergency Management Association to provide sanitation in disaster areas and now are being made available to the public.
The company bills TravelJohn as the "civilized anytime, anywhere solution" when you "need to go while on the go," though, of course, if you think talking on the cell phone and driving is a trick, using TravelJohn and driving, well ... be sure to pull off the road first. And the pouches can be used when kids get carsick.
For full details on how TravelJohn works, visit www.traveljohn.com or call 888-518-8389.
NO WAITING FOR HYDROGEN: Troubled by the frequent claims that clean-burning hydrogen vehicles are many years away from reality?
Anuvu Inc., a Sacramento, developer and supplier of fuel-cell products, is offering a hydrogen fuel cell-powered pickup.
Anuvu has begun marketing a zero-emission conversion of the Nissan Frontier that runs on a hybrid hydrogen fuel cell/battery engine.
The truck, Anuvu says, "makes it possible for environmentally conscious consumers and institutions to own and operate fuel-cell-powered vehicles" and "jump-starts wide usage of such vehicles."
Unfortunately, it requires some sacrifice on the part of the buyer, such as a 60-mile range before the need to refuel.
So before you rush out to get one, make sure you have access to a hydrogen fuel filling station less than 60 miles from home.
Anuvu adds, however, that the trucks are targeted at fleets, whose vehicles return to a central location each night, where a hydrogen filling station can be installed. And, as luck would have it, Anuvu provides the hydrogen fuel tanks needed to set up your own refueling station.
Before you dash out to have Anuvu set up your own hydrogen refueling station, be advised the hydrogen hybrid Frontier costs $99,995--and the refueling station is extra.
For more info or to place an order, visit www.anuvu.com or call 916-921-7040.
PROBLEM SOLVED: Thanks to Rocky Mountain Radar of El Paso, Texas, the age-old problem of radar detectors offering their warnings in English only has been solved.
Rocky Mountain has come up with RMR-D550, a radar detector that gives bilingual English/Spanish warnings when police are hiding with radar gun in hand.
You only have to flip a switch and the detector will holler a warning in the language of your choice. Price: $299.95. Call 915-587-0307.
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