New Subway Car Design Proposals Aim To Minimize Stranger Danger

It might be time for new subway cars, and the New York Transit Authority wants to do it right. So they sent a group of researchers into the subways to stare at straphangers over three weeks and make everyone super uncomfortable. Plus gather data or whatever.

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Amazing Video of a Crane Lifting a Car Using Two Phonebooks

You probably knew that it's impossible to pull apart two phonebooks put together with interleaving pages. But did you know that the bond—caused by the mechanical friction of the interleaving pages—is so strong that it can lift an entire car? This video demonstrates exactly that. The best part, however, may be to…

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Parents: Remotely Block Your Kid's Cell Phone When They're Driving

AT&T's new safe-driving initiative is more than a little creepy: it's developing software that parents can use to remotely turn off text messaging and voice calls on their children's cell phone when they're out driving.

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