When you need a multimeter for testing electrical equipment around the home, it's vital to know what all those symbols around the dial mean.

Artist Tracy Thomson hangs her "Kabuki Potholders," which depict various New Orleans neighborhoods on the classic New Orleans Water Meter at the Dutch Alley Artist's Co-op in the French Quarter.

Promising that you can drop its newest model handheld from six feet without damage, use it in the rain, and have it tumble 2,000 times from a height of 1 meter, Symbol Technologies on Monday unveiled ...