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Students’ invention allows quadriplegics to use tongue to control devices

You’ve probably never heard of the phrase “tongue-controlled independence,” but thanks to five enterprising college students, that’s about to change. They’ve just invented life-changing technology: a retainer for quadriplegics that allows them to move by …
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Apple granted a patent that’d allow advanced car control via your iPhone

The proposed invention outlines an advanced vehicle access control system that would permit an iPhone to do things like open your car doors, start or shut off the engine for specific time frames and for specific duration of time, adjust and activate …
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This invention lets you control your computer with a banana

You can now control your computer, phone, tablet with virtually anything ranging from a banana all the way to a wiggly bowl of jello, including living pets and human beings. All this with Makey Makey Go, which is the world’s first portable invention kit.
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Commentary: An invention that got just a little out of control – Dayton Daily News


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Commentary: An invention that got just a little out of control
Dayton Daily News
By DL Stewart, Contributing Columnist 6:18 PM Tuesday, May 29, 2012 The year 1955 was a big one for inventions. It brought us Velcro, Play-Doh and that green bean with mushroom soup glop that is required by law to be on every American's Thanksgiving
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Inventor of TV remote control dead – Entertainment Weekly Online

Beyond keeping TV viewers pinned to their chairs, Polley’s invention unchained technology from mechanical knobs and levers, opening vast possibilities, said Richard Doherty, CEO of suburban New York-based technology assessment and market …
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Eugene Polley dies at 96; inventor of wireless TV remote control – Los Angeles Times


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Eugene Polley dies at 96; inventor of wireless TV remote control
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Polley felt he did not receive proper credit for his invention. Eugene Polley holds his Flash-Matic television remote control. “This is the greatest thing since the wheel,” he told the Chicago Tribune in 2007. (Antonio Perez, Chicago Tribune / January
Eugene Polley, inventor of TV remote, dies at 96Cincinnati.com
Inventor Of The TV Remote DiesKJCT8.com

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