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A Patent for What?

By Marcus Chan - 2012-09-17T21:57:31Z

Photograph by Laurence Dutton

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Russian Roulette, Sleeping at Work

If inventions are indicative of what we want, we're a people longing for sleep, thrills and a place to be left alone. Here's a sampling of some of the more curious patents recently granted.

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