advice
Windex works great on your windows, but will it clean your TV? How about those expensive cleaning kits they sell at Best Buy? Our sister publication,
Consumer Reports, says that both of them are bad ideas, but for different reasons.
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cleaning
Barbara Flanagan of I.D. Magazine has a fascinating article about
microfiber, a cleaning cloth introduced in Europe a decade ago that's never caught on in the U.S., despite its ability to clean all sorts of things without the use of cleaning chemicals—"the product
cleans surfaces mechanically, not chemically, by scraping them with microscopic precision."
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