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Nothing puts a damper on your holiday cheer more than being stuck in gridlock — less than a mile from the festivities, but hours away as far as those brake lights are concerned. Luckily, the days of waiting, wondering and wasting gas in traffic are over. A bevy of doohickeys and gizmos now exist to help us plot a shorter route to your grandmother’s house. Now if only an app existed to shorten your legs on a plane ride home.

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History, hockey and Jersey Shore are rife with examples of the fuse-shortening effect an unrestrained barrage of trash talking can have. People get insulted, they get angry, they get in fights.

From the predictability of such primitive wiring comes opportunity, at least for London-based fitness center Gymbox. The gym has increased the hostility index of its Holborn location with the Human Punching Bag: an employee ensconced in a padded tube who taunts boxing clients as they pummel his cushioned torso. The invention is central to the “Goadivation” technique Gymbox created to keep those in its b...