"If every single toy has a choke hazard warning on it, then the warning label becomes meaningless, " complains Alison Cassady, author of the U.S. PIRG report.

FORBES: Sticker Shock

The car's ultrasonic sensors check for obstacles, and software starts and stops the engine, controls the brakes and hazard-warning flashers, and folds the wing mirrors in and out.

ECONOMIST: Rational consumer

This may sound creepy to some, but it opens the door to mobile devices providing users with highly personalized benefits, from a special offer on a package you are looking at to a warning of a hazard on the road ahead.

FORBES: Why Sensors Are a Force of Context

After forty years of experience coordinating the Pacific Tsunami Warning System (PTWS), UNESCO-IOC is leading a global effort to establish ocean-based tsunami warning systems as part of an overall multi-hazard disaster reduction strategy.

UNESCO: IOC congratulates Anguilla on achieving TsunamiReady recognition | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization