It's the height of summer, and for many Americans, that means scorching cars and forgotten plastic water bottles rolling around under the seats. But before you take a sip out of one of those, you ...

With much of the country battling the worst wintry weather of the season, some of us are reaching for an old-fashioned way of keeping warm – the hot-water bottle. Along with their modern equivalent, ...

As a lifetime hot-water-bottle user, I have waxed poetic about them before, and I am a purist. The vessels should be all-natural rubber. And they should of course be traditionally shaped, like square ...