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	Vancouver Bans Doorknobs And This Isn't a Sexual Reference
	The doorknob may be the most inefficient solution to opening a door. And it's about to get banned in Vancouver. The city's council amended its building code, to mandate lever handles and lever faucets only. And this makes total sense. As Tim Stainto...
	How Fake Poop Is Helping Designers Create A Better Toilet
	The Gates Foundation is trying to give the toilet an upgrade. Their goal is to help 3.5 billion people lacking access to clean toilets, but how are they going to do that? By using fake poop. A competition from the Gates Foundation's 2012 Reinvent th...
	Scientists Find Method to Produce Hydrogen on The Cheap
	Hydrogen is promising as the fuel of the future but it is also very expensive to produce in bulk. To work around that, a team of Stanford researchers believe they can make it as cheap as fossil fuels by using some water and sunlight. To make hydroge...
	Paper by 53 Gets a Gorgeous Pencil Stylus [VIDEO]
	Paper by 53 is iPad's most famous drawing app. Now, the creators have released a gorgeous stylus to go with it. Named Pencil, it is a Bluetooth stylus that pairs the Paper app for iOS. Pencil may not be any different than any other stylus out there,...
	This Google Glass Mod Will Let You Play Super Mario Bros With Your Eyes [VIDEO]
	If you were a kid in the 80s and 90s, you would have spent a lot of time playing the Super Mario Bros games. Flash forward to 2013, now you can play the game too, but this time with your eyes.Google Glass has pupil tracking sensors, but it only acc...
	BlackBerry and Porsche Team Up To Make The P'9982 [VIDEO]
	Are they still doing this? More importantly, why are they still doing this? Porsche and BlackBerry have teamed up to craft a premium smartphone dubbed the P'9982. The phone is essentially an updated Z10 in a sleeker Porsche Design Package, and it b...
	This is The First 'Selfie' Hashtag in Instagram History
	The word "Selfie" officially became the Oxford Dictionary's Word of the Year 2013. The usage has reportedly increased by a whopping 17,000% since last year. That's interesting of course. But what's more interesting is if we can find the first selfi...
	Soldiers in The U.S. Army Will Be Wearing Iron Man Suits in Four Years Time [VIDEO]
	The US Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) has always wanted a real life version of Iron Man's suit for soldiers. It looks like it's getting very real now."The goal is to have a contract in place by next fall and have suits ...
	2013 Word of The Year: Selfie
	'Selfie' has been named the Oxford Dictionaries word of the year. And you thought 'twerk' had a chance! According to Oxford Dictionaries editors, the use of the word has increased by 17,000 percent since this time last year. Here's how they describe...
	Japanese Company Unveils New Radiation Protective Underwear
	Yamamoto Corporation has unveiled a new line of undies and drysuits, for the Fukushima clean-up crews. Dubbed "radiation shield wear", it differs from traditional radiation protective clothing.It has several layers of protection and it is a pair of ...

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