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There are some mysteries we're just not meant to understand. Why is the sky blue? What makes water wet? Oh, and why in the world did Microsoft just spend $76 million dollars to buy a Wisconsin pumpkin farm? It's a mystery.

Dennis Horton is the Director of the Rockford Regional Office of the Better Business Bureau (BBB), joining us twice monthly with the latest information on area scam activity.

Technology and scams go together hand in hand, and unfortunately, this scam cost a Stateline family over $2,550 in a matter of a seconds. Don't let it happen to you.

In 1975, there was some excitement brewing in our house. We were getting a new TV, right before the Super Bowl. My dad, who had grown tired of our 19-inch, (semi) color TV that had a vertical hold problem, had decided it was time for a 21-inch color console TV...

As a confessed gadget-geek, I thought this look at the future of interactive imaging was extremely cool. And, it doesn't look to be that far in the future, either. From CNET: There's virtual reality and augmented reality. Microsoft is imagining something similar, but not via a headset...