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General Electric's 1978 Widescreen TV

razor123 @razor123 (979) • India 24 Aug 08

Sometimes it's best not to keep up with the Joneses. Take 1978, for instance. Your spendthrift neighbors had just taken delivery of a monolithic new General Electric Widescreen 1000 projection TV and were showing it off to...

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Cordless Jump-Rope Can Help the Clumsy

sunmin0123 @sunmin0123 (106) • China 22 Feb 07

And for that idea kicking around Clancy's head since 1988, the U.S. Patent Office this month awarded the 52-year-old Mansfield, Ohio, man a patent. Its number: 7037243. What makes this invention work is the moving weights inside...

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50 facts....

cradleOFjheffd @cradleOFjheffd (920) • Philippines 18 Feb 07

1. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted. 2. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted...

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Predictions that missed the mark

SK401001 @SK401001 (934) • United States 15 Jan 07

In 1894, the president of the Royal Society, Lord Kelvin, predicted that radio had no future. The first radio factory was opened five years later. He also predicted that heavier-than-air flying machines were impossible. Today,...

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How to be a More Savvy Hair-Care Consumer

Starlady0_1 @Starlady0_1 (586) • United States 9 Jan 07

Learning to abide by the shopping precepts below will help you save money, avoid endless disappointment, and become a savvy hair-care consumer. 1. You must be willing to change some of your beliefs about hair care. A hair-care...

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about google

kaniam @kaniam (582) • India 27 Dec 06

This article is about the corporation. For the search engine produced by this corporation, see Google search; for the underlying technology, see Google platform; For the number, see googol; for other uses see Google...

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Did you know....?

abukaka @abukaka (40) • Malaysia 15 Dec 06

Predictions that missed the mark In 1894, the president of the Royal Society, Lord Kelvin, predicted that radio had no future. The first radio factory was opened five years later. He also predicted that heavier-than-air flying...

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Why not use Water as fuel in your car right now

crabby1 @crabby1 (304) • Australia 29 Sep 06

It seems many inventions are at first considered “Of little value”. The cry goes out “That couldn’t possibly work; could it?” or “What on earth is the use of that” and the subject is never raised again. It is only when the...

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As a researcher and tech designer I wish to immigrate to US

rezaTA @rezaTA (1) 2 Jul 06

I have designed a powerful technology on data compression with which you can compress large amount of data repeatedly; even redundancy removed strings. I hope it will change next generation communication and Internet,...