GADGETS - TECH NEWS

	China's Taizhou Bridge is An Engineering Marvel Built to Cross The Yangtze River
	The Yangtze River is the third longest river in the world and has served as the beating heart of China's economic boom. Because of its incredibly wide points, China had to make one of the most advanced long-span bridges in the world. This is the Tai...
	How Disney's New Rendering Technique Will Benefit The Animation Industry
	A team led by Disney Research Zürich has developed a computational algorithm that can reduce rendering times for such scenes by a factor of up to 1,000. Led by Disney Research scientist Wojciech Jarosz, the team developed a method called "joint imp...
	August Raises $8 Million. Smart Locks to Come in 2014
	A company called August, is developing a smart lock which users can open with their smartphones. They also announced that it has raised $8 million in Series A funding from Maveron, Rho Ventures, SoftTech VC and others. They also got $2 million in se...
	Apple's Trade-In Program Now Accepts Water Damaged iPhones
	Whoops. You accidentally doused your iPhone in water. Too bad too sad? Buy a new one? Well wait a minute. Apple has just updated its Reuse and Recycle Program to allow water-damaged iPhones to be traded in. iPhones that have been previously damaged ...
	Nokia Shareholders Approve $7.2 Billion Microsoft Acquisition
	Microsoft will officially buy Nokia for $7.2 billion, according to the Financial Times. While some smaller shareholders are protesting the sale, 99.7% of the investors present at a company meeting in Helsinki voted in favor of the acquisition.As par...
	Test Your Screenwriting Powers With This App That Animates Your Script For You
	Think you could have wrote a better script for a movie? Now you can, with a new screenwriting tool called Plotagon. The software will even generate an animated version of the script. The software lets you choose from a small assortment of character...
	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,...

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