Zero G Aerospace will lose money on its first load of business cards, but once the rocket proves itself, Gonser and Gorrell hope to become the kings of the space souvenir business.

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The cards give free travel on buses and trams, but to get child fares on the Tube and trains parents have to load money onto the cards.

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There are stored-value cards, which allow customers to load money onto a microchip-bearing piece of plastic.

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But what people underestimate is that it is nearly impossible to keep from adding to your debt load if you continue to use your credit cards.

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To avoid buying or giving an empty card, only purchase gift cards from secure displays or from stores that load the card with its value at the checkout, advises Mark Huffman of ConsumerAffairs.com.

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In the U.S., gamers can load their Rixty accounts via Coinstar marchines, MoneyPak, and Rixty prepaid cards.

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One of the strange things we learned during our hands-on was that SLI is complicated by NVIDIA's GPU Boost technology, which causes individual cards in the same chassis to run at different clock speeds depending on their load and temperature.

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