Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
08 July 7: Wireless
In 1908, U.S. Patent 887,357 for a wireless telephone was issued to Nathan B. Stubblefield of Murray, Kentucky.
08 June 14: Mobile
Minimum number of South Africans who do their banking entirely by mobile phone: 500,000
08 May 22: Cathode
The origin of video games lies in early cathode ray tube-based missile defence systems in the late 1940s.
08 April 25: Inter@ctive
In 1998, Research in Motion (RIM) released the Inter@ctive Two-Way Pager. A year later, RIM introduced the BlackBerry to the world.
08 March 28: Robot
Japanese scientists unveiled a robot that plays the violin, a robot that solves Rubik's Cubes, a robot that recognizes itself in a mirror, a robot snowplow that eats snow and excretes ice bricks, a robot exoskeleton that can be worn by elderly farmers, and a robot that walks at the command of a monkey on a treadmill in North Carolina.
08 March 16: PET
The first complete personal computer was the Commodore PET introduced in January 1977.
08 February 16: Bigspy
Bigspy on Digg Labs displays upcoming stories on your computer screen as people digg them (bigger stories have more diggs).
08 January 3: Satellite
1.5 million Canadians work out of their homes or satellite business centres at least a few days a week.
December 31: Blogs
Technorati's Top 100 Blogs have an average age of 33.8 months. From Darren's ProBlogger article here.
December 13: Nanotechnology
‘Some nanotechnology products are applied directly to the skin, such as cosmetics and sunscreens. Titanium dioxide is commonly used as the white pigment in sunscreen. When it is ground into nanoparticles it can still block harmful ultraviolet radiation, but it allows visible light to pass straight through, which means modern sunscreens can appear completely transparent, while offering the same protection as the old white stuff.’
September 26: Whitening
The practise of skin-whitening can be found everywhere but is particularly common in India, Asia, Africa and the United States.
Interesting article here.
Interesting article here.
September 25: Bag
The familiar green plastic garbage bag (made from polyethylene) was invented by Harry Wasylyk in 1950.
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