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The important thing to remember about biking in the snow isn't whether it's possibleeverything is possible, except time travel and convincing your best friend to ditch Cameron Diaz and marry you instead.

Whether you should bike in the snow is largely an issue of tolerance: Would you rather be whipped in the face by an onslaught of tiny, freshly-sharpened ice daggers, or cram into an overly hot train car with a group of wet, cranky people-cattle and their mouth-breathing children? The obvious answer here is "Mexico," but it's already too late to plot any sort of escape this month. If you do choose the former, follow along to reduce your inevitable misery:

First, don't overdress. Wearing a pile of sweaters isn't going to keep your fingertips from freezing; it's going to make your core sweaty, and that sweat will quickly become cold. Wear merino wool or synthetic fiber, but not cottonnever cotton. Cotton absorbs sweat and then insists on pressing that sweat against your skin in a sort of frigid death embrace. You may as well just tape a bunch of frozen diapers around your rib cage. Seriously, avoid cotton.

Wear a waterproof or water-resistant shell on the outside, preferably one that's vented or has a two-way zipper. Wear waterproof gloves with interior grips, because a humiliating death is crashing into a truck or lamp post because your clumsy, wet hand flew from the handlebar. Bring extra socks. If you're biking in daylight, wear darker colors to stand out.

On your head, you'll want a balaclava or helmet linerwhatever it is, make sure it covers your ears and preferably, your nose. Leave your eyes for dead.

Let's talk about your bike! Your bike hates winter. It's tough on your gears, your derailleur, your drive train, your everything. If you have enough green for a separate winter bike, get a fancy one with internal geared hubs and let me borrow it. Otherwise, you have some tire options: Mountain bike tires maintain better traction, but some people prefer thinner tires on the basis that more effectively concentrate your weight and thus provide a superior grip on the pavement, wherever that is. The other option is using a bike you won't miss when it rusts or corrodes. And the fewer gears it has, the less there is to have mucked up by salt and other destructive detritus camouflaged in the seemingly innocuous powder.

Regardless of the bike you choose, the best thing you can do is maintain it. A little oil where each tire spoke enters the rim every so often will help repel both salt and water. If it falls within your skill set, dismantle your bike and give it a thorough cleaning once every couple of weeks.

Also, fenders! Fenders will help protect your bike's prissier components, and maybe spare your pants a fractional amount of the crap shooting off the sidewalk. And if you've always wondered what it's like to take a lane, now is the timeplows tend to shove the snow right into the space where you'd normally ride, and anyway, you want to make yourself as visible to drivers as possible.

Wear a helmet and use your lights in the daytime: The roads are especially lawless in the snow, and cars expect your presence in such weather even less than they do on nice days. It's also damn slippery out there, so even if you're not a helmet-wearing person normally (for shame), become one today! Your hair already looks like crap anyway. It will look like crap until April 1, 2015, when you will awake to find that it's blossomed into a beautiful 90s Pantene Pro-V commercial. Embrace your matted, ugly hair, or your inner-beauty, whichever you possess more of.

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Robots are making great strides not just in the science world but also at home. Photo: Bloomberg

At the end of every year in recent memory, it seems, high-tech optimists have predicted the next year as the one when robots will finally lift from our shoulders the burden of dreary domestic tasks.

Think washing floors, scrubbing the grill, cutting the lawn, watering plants, changing cat litter, vacuuming the carpet - and, for good measure, pacifying the baby and entertaining the older children.

That was certainly the case at the close of 2013, said Dan Kara, a robotics analyst with ABI Research. "This was supposed to be the year where everything was going to be different," Kara said. "Again."

And while that home-robotics revolution didn't exactly come to fruition this year, Kara said a handful of interesting robotic debuts in 2014 brought consumers one step closer to the chore-free home of the future.

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That sentiment was echoed by two others who closely follow the consumer robotics industry: Erico Guizzo, editor of the Automaton blog of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and Andra Keay, managing director of Silicon Valley Robotics, an industry group. Based on recommendations from these specialists, as well as some firsthand tests, here are 10 notable robots that made their debut this year.

Neato Botvac: Vacuums constitute the biggest and most competitive consumer-robotics category in the marketplace, and they're getting better. The earliest models were criticised for their over-reliance on humans to maintain them. ("I had to constantly clean my cleaning robot," Guizzo said.) Owners also had to drag the bots to their charging stations when the batteries died, and move furniture that the robots couldn't squeeze beneath. The Neato Botvac ($899 to $999) requires less cleaning than the earliest robotic vacuums, and it features good pickup power and a low profile that helps it sneak under couches. My favorite feature: when the battery is low, the Botvac returns to its charging station. When Dyson's much-anticipated robot appears next year, watch for similar features.

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