Hank Torres, a quadriplegic, set the Guinness Book of World Records for the fastest hands-free typing.
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Toepener – Hands-Free Foot Door Opening Solution
The Toepener
The Toepener is a simple device that attaches to doors, enabling users to open the door with their feet. It is the ideal solution for exiting a public restroom.
It provides a sanitary, hands-free alternative for users to open the door and avoid touching the handle…
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QR Codes as Tombstones
All the information you need is in the QR Codes.
Japanese tombstone maker Ishinokoe has begun offering memorials that feature QR codes. Want to know more about the person entombed there? Just whip out your smartphone and scan the code…
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The Dull Men’s Club
They have a fascination with luggage carousels and park benches. They enjoy watching paint dry and, around this time of year, sap drip. These are the members of the Dull Men’s Club, and they don’t care if they bore you.
“We’re not a 12-step program where we’re trying to change our ways,” says club president Leland Carlson, 71, of London, where the club, known as DMC, is based. “We’re a two-step program: We admit we’re dull and we’re gonna keep it that way.”
The club, which Carlson founded in New York City with a few bored — and boring — pals in the mid-’80s, has remained true to its founder’s words. It’s never grown, it’s never held an event and it’s never had a membership drive…
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Wondrous, Detailed Map of the Wondrous History of Science Fiction
A Spectacular View of Science Fiction’s History.
Artist Ward Shelley’s brilliant map of the history of science fiction from 2009 is a kind of interestingness black hole whose event horizon captured me for several hours this morning as I pored over the diagram and the arguments it makes about the history and origins of science fiction. I don’t agree with every conclusion illustrated here, but thinking about them made me reconsider a lot of cherished beliefs…
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Canned Cow Farts Prove Big Hit in Germany
A gassy success.
Stall Duft is a small can filled with the smell of an old wooden stable full of gas-producing cows. This thing is actually for sale in Germany and Austria, and the strangest part is that it’s a success…
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Firefox And Chrome Add-On To Erase Charlie Sheen From The Web
Get the Sheen out of your computer life.
Are you sick of hearing about Charlie Sheen? Tinted Sheen is a browser add-on for Firefox or Chrome that blocks mentions of Sheen as you go about your daily browsing.
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Pass the Meat Water
Yummy meat water?
Remember that phony ad from The Simpsons that featured the phrase “the great taste of Worcestershire sauce in a soft drink”? It was ridiculous and funny to everyone who watched it, everyone except for Krautkraemer – the company that has brought us Meat Water.
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Japan to Build 10,000 EV Charging Station/Vending Machine Hybrids by 2012
Japan has a fascination with vending machines.
Japan is notorious for its fascination with vending machines — as of 2008, there were 5.5 million of them across the nation. And these aren’t merely the candy bar and soda variety, either — Japan has vending machines that sell live crabs, grow lettuce, are covered in moss, and dispense smart cars. And by this time next year, it will have 10,000 vending machines that charge electric cars.
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New Dating Website Helps You Find Someone Who Looks Just Like You
Lookin’ good!
Because that’s what we’re all looking for, right? Christina Bloom is the founder of FindYourFacemate.com, which will open for business later this month. She says that she was inspired to build the website after people kept telling her that she and her ex-husband look a lot alike. So this website will use facial mapping software to match you up with someone like you..
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The World’s First and Only Ice Musician
Chilled musician Terje Isungset.
He’s played concerts inside frozen waterfalls, on top of 3,000 meter high glaciers and inside massive ice-domes — at temperatures as low as -33 degrees Celsius.
Although it may sound strange, for Terje Isungset, the world’s first and only ice musician, these conditions are all part of the job…
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Corning’s “A Day Made of Glass” Video – The Future of Specialty Glass
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Can you imagine organizing your daily schedule with a few touches on your bathroom mirror? Chatting with far-away relatives through interactive video on your kitchen counter? Reading a classic novel on a whisper-thin piece of flexible glass?
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