Students at MIT developed a wristband that can regulate your “thermal comfort”, which could possibly eliminate the need for central heating and cooling.
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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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All GPS units sold in the civilian market have to be programmed to deactivate themselves if they detect they are travelling faster than 1200 MPH or are above 60,000 feet in altitude to prevent them being used in intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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Technically speaking, crystal glass is actually a Liquid that flows very slowly.
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The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
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Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
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The life boat was patented in 1845!
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