The Cool Tools weblog features Yaktrax, grippy rubber-bandy things that snap onto the bottom of your shoes for a slip-proof walk through snow and ice. Yaktrax work like snow chains on your car tires.

October 30, 2005 We put snow chains on our cars to give us traction on ice and snow, so this is one of those ideas we’ll accept fairly readily. Indeed, the Yaktrax is such a good idea that it was ...

The Yaktrax strap on ice walkers are not a lot more complicated than the image suggests but anyone who’s been careful with their footfalls over the last few weeks of sub zero madness would appreciate ...

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Those few weeks in December changed everything. Car, previously good, became bad on steep, icy hills. Down there, at the bottom, even brave, burly beasts with 4-wheel-drive and chains lay bruised and ...

You may have to look hard if you hope to get a Toyota from your favorite car rental agency these days. Late last month, as news of the recall heated up, Avis, Budget, Enterprise, Alamo and National ...