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The Cue bathroom privacy door handle

Household Technology

The Cue bathroom privacy door handle

Marilyn Mahoney

Hi, The following article was written by Keith Liles on our new product. We’ve also been featured on Fox News, Canadian Insider, Mobile Syrup among other news sources. Please take a few seconds to read this and if you’d like more information, our press release or even an interview with the founder and inventor please don’t hesitate to let me know. Thank you so much for your time! Have a wonderful day! Cue Handles - You’ll Really Want To Get A Hold Of This Tech The handle turns. The locked door

Thomas Willson would experiment with phosphate in fertilizers at Meech Lake in Chelsea, Quebec

Engineering & Technology

Enlightening Canada with carbide

We take our energy-efficient bright lights for granted nowadays with people rarely questioning how they work. In the late 19th century, however, this was a serious concern given how dim and expensive lighting was at the time. That was until Thomas “Carbide” Willson found an economically-viable way to light up Canada through the use of calcium carbide (CaC2) and acetylene gas (C2H2). An enthusiast of electricity and inventor since his teens, Willson moved from his home in Princeton, Ontario to

The Voltera V-One lets you print your own circuit boards from home

Engineering & Technology

The Voltera V-One lets you print your own circuit boards from home

There was a time when if you wanted to get your very own design of a printed circuit board you’d have to send a file and wait around for two weeks before seeing your work in the flesh. But then, after all your patience, you’d notice that they made a mistake and you’d have to get them to produce a new one. Well, those days are over, thanks to the V-One, a PCB printer. Voltera is the company that created the machine and was founded by students at the University of Waterloo. They noticed the

Social Science & Culture

How to prevent falls

Canada Foundation for Innovation

Researchers at Simon Fraser University are analyzing how people fall with the aim of preventing injuries. The Technology for Injury Prevention in Seniors (TIPS) program at Simon Fraser University partnered with two long-term care facilities in the Vancouver area to study real-life falls. They’re using this falling data to design new preventions such as compliant flooring and hip protectors that can help alleviate fall-related injuries. According to principal investigator Stephen Robinovitch

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Peanut Butter

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The protein substitute. Step aside, George Washington Carver. Contrary to almost universal belief, the celebrated American botanist didn’t create peanut butter. The stick-to-the-roof-of-your-mouth glory goes to Marcellus Gilmore Edson. In 1884, the Quebec chemist was awarded the first patent for peanut butter—or peanut-candy, as it was called then. Marcellus discovered it when he found that heating the surfaces to grind peanuts to 100 degrees Fahrenheit caused crushed peanuts to emerge as a

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Household Technology

Multi-touch screens

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The pinch and the zoom. Innovators had the idea for multi-touch screens in their minds and down on paper for years. The true breakthrough in this technology came in 1982. It occurred at the University of Toronto when members of the school’s Input Research Group actually made the first human-input multi-touch screen. Their screen featured a frosted-glass panel with a camera behind. The camera detected when a finger or fingers were placed on the panel and registered these input points as black

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Household Technology

Life Jacket

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The Inuit fisher’s insurance. When exposed to Canada’s frigid waters—both coastal and inland—you will often perish more quickly from heat loss than drowning. Inuit whale fishers knew this truth. They made what are known as spring-pelts, which are sealskin or seal gut stitched together to create a waterproof covering for their torsos. These early life jackets evolved, more insulated and buoyant over time, until they became the sailor’s salvation we know today.

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Zipper

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The hookless fastener. Many great innovations simply speed up or eliminate the actions that consume our time. The hookless fastener, more commonly known as the zipper, is one of the classics. The man on the other side of the zipper is Swedish-born Gideon Sundback. In 1913, he came up with something he called the Hookless No. 2. It’s the metal zipper as we know it today—two strips of teeth brought together tightly by a slider. No more tricky buckles or time-consuming hook-and-eye fasteners

Jolly Jumper: Photograph courtesy of Jolly Jumper

Household Technology

Jolly Jumper

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The back saver. Life is hard enough with two arms. When one of them must hold a squirming youngster, it can be downright impossible. After her first child was born in 1910, Toronto mother Susan Olivia Poole was keen to stay active. Inspired by the papooses used by Aboriginal mothers to carry their children, she fashioned a harness of er own. It was a cotton diaper fashioned as a sling seat, a coiled spring to suspend its wearer from above, and an axe handle to secure the contraption. Susan

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Household Technology

Light Bulb

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The bright future. Thomas Edison didn’t invent the electric light bulb. Credit for that illuminating discovery must go to an unlikely duo from Toronto. Dreaming of a bright future in 1874, medical student Henry Woodward and hotelkeeper Mathew Evans fashioned a bulb out of a glass tube that contained a large piece of carbon connected to two wires. When they hit the switch, the current flowed and the carbon glowed. But not for long. They then filled their bulb with inert nitrogen to prolong the

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