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Background: It is often recommended that pet owners buy “challenging” toys to keep their pets mentally stimulated in a world where the owners take care of all the pet’s needs. Although an owner could simply put a dog biscuit in a bowl, it would be more exciting for the dog if the biscuit were inside…
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The issue: Sometimes, it’s difficult to avoid being distracted by the wide variety of enticing modern entertainment options. It’s always possible to physically unplug your Internet router and turn off your phone, but most people aren’t going to do that on a regular basis. Proposal: An individual could purchase a set of wireless buttons that…
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The issue: Most social networks only allow you to “friend” or “unfriend” a person—a binary choice. Although a few networks have additional degrees of granularity (“co-workers” / “show only my public profile”), in general it is assumed that the relationship between individuals is symmetrical. Fig 1: The familiar but insufficiently expressive “friend” button. Proposal: To…
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The issue: Rarely, when buttoning a dress shirt, one may inadvertently buttons the buttons on one side to the wrong button holes on the corresponding side, causing mortifying embarrassment and eternal shame. (This problem can be encountered with snaps as well as buttons.) The solution: If each button / snap was magnetized, and its corresponding…

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