Thursday, August 19, 2010

The Consumers Union

On Wednesday, August 19th, we went to the Consumers Union (publisher of Consumer Reports) in Yonkers and were given a tour of their testing labs, where engineers determine the best of everything we buy: cleaning sprays, ovens, humidifiers, cribs, video cameras, cell phones and more! It looked like a great place to work - like being in a fun high school science lab. We got a special tour of the lab where they test cell phones out of the box and interviewed Gerard Catapano who is in charge of electronic equipment testing labs...



Here is a link to a useful article on cellphone service from Consumers Reports: http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine-archive/2010/january/electronics-computers/cell-phone-service/overview/cell-phone-service-ov.htm

-Helki

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