As we saw this week, the two-wheeled electric device provides a stable platform for a camera.

Post-holiday cleaning will be a breeze for a retired couple who use an 88-year-old electric device that vacuums, sprays paint, buffs, grinds coffee and even minces meat.

As to the surgical procedure, ablation (or fulguration) of endometriosis (burning and vaporizing the lesions with a pointy electric device) has shown high rate of short-term recurrence after the procedure.

A surge protector attempts to limit the voltage supplied to an electric device by either blocking or by shorting to ground any unwanted voltages above a safe threshold.

The inherent flaw in this method was that turning off a single lamp (or other electric device) affected the voltage supplied to all others on the same circuit.