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ADVERTISEMENT No doubt about it, we live in a world of rapid change. Whereas a century ago, our grandparents and great grandparents were still getting around in a horse and buggy, and reading newspapers as their only source of information and entertainment, today we fly in supersonic transports and get our news and entertainment from [...]
Posted by Jeff Danelek on Thursday, August 9, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under Engineering, History, Misc · Tagged automobile, Books, Flushing Toilet, Incandescent light bulb, ironing clothes, Jeff Danelek, Landline Telephones, musical instruments, ourcuriousworld, rifle, sailboat, technology, technology that hasn't changed, Things That Haven’t Changed In 100 Years, train
Usually when we think of “art”, things like sculptures or paintings come to mind; in other words, stuff you can hang on the wall or keep in your atrium to be the envy of your neighborhood’s upper crust (everyone is lower-upper class, right? That’s what TV tells me). But there is a new form that [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Monday, January 30, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under Art, Entertainment, Misc, Science · Tagged 3-D, Carbon nanotube, David Dietle, Elisabetta Comini, Energy, Fanny Beron, Johns Hopkins University, Nanoelectronics, Nanowire, National Taiwan University, Pac-Man, Solar cell, Tata Nano, technology, University of Brescia in Italy
Usually these lists deal with what was, but after finishing my top ten inventions of the 19th and 20th century lists, I thought it might be fun to do a list of what might be coming down the road as well. Obviously, such a list is purely speculative, but the technologies/discoveries I list here are [...]
Posted by Jeff Danelek on Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Engineering, Science · Tagged 21 century, A.I., airplane, AMP Limited, artificial intelligence, Artificial life, car disappearing, Cloning, cutting edge technology, Energy, Energy development, energy sources, Engineering, everything from microchips to potato chips, exotic technologies, fantasy technologies, future technology, Genetic Engineering, http://www.ourcuriousworld.com, Hydrogen economy, Hydrogen vehicle, inventions, Jeff Danelek, natural gas, new technology, non-organic technologies, non-radioactive energy, nuclear and solar energy, organs, Physics, robot, Robotics, science, Self-replicating machine, technology, top 10, top 10 inventions, top 10 technology, TopTenz.net, zero-point energy generators
It is said that the first use of military aviation occurred in 1794 during the Battle of Fleurus when the French were able to use an observation balloon to secretly watch where Austrian soldiers were moving during the battle. Though successful at the time, many advances have been made within the realm of military air [...]
Posted by Ash Grant on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Engineering · Tagged Air Force, Aircraft, airplanes, aviation, B-2 Spirit, Clarence, F-111 Aardvark, F-14, F-14 Tomcat, F-14D Super Tomcat, F-15 Eagle, fastest planes, flying, MiG-23 Flogger, MiG-25R Foxbat-B, MiG-31 Foxhound, military, military planes, SR-71 Blackbird, Su-24 Fencer, Su-27 Flanker, Super Tomcast, technology, top 10 planes, War
The world has never been more technologically advanced than it is now, but that doesn’t mean that some things haven’t been lost along the way. Many of the technologies, inventions, and manufacturing processes of antiquity have simply disappeared with the passage of time, while others are still not fully understood by modern day scientists. Some [...]
Posted by Evan Andrews on Friday, August 13, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre, Education, Engineering · Tagged A, Antikythera mechanism, Antonio Stradivari, apollo space program, Damascus Steel, Gemini Space Program, Greek Fire, Library of Alexandria, lost technology, Nepenthe, Roman Cement, Silphium, Stradivari Violins, technology, Telharmonium
Toptenz.net has an iPhone App: Top 10 List iPhone App Chinese manufacturers piggyback off of successful products by cranking out thousands of copies, nowhere is this truer than with the success of the iPhone. There are literally hundreds of iPhone knockoffs, ranging from empty shells with the LED Apple logo lit up to exact copies [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Thursday, July 8, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Engineering · Tagged android phones, Apple, Apple Inc., CECT, cellular telephone, clone phones, Computing, consumer electronics, Dan Seitz, Electronics, Engineering, IBM, iphone, iPhone android, iPhone clones, iPhone copy, knockoffs, LG Dare Cellular Phone, Linksys iPhone, logo, Made in China, manufacturing, Meizu M8, PRADA, Smartphones, technology, top 10 iphone, top 10 lists, TopTenz, TopTenz.net
History books will often lead you to believe that the world’s great inventions and discoveries were the work of a single person with a flash of genius, but the reality is rarely that simple. In most cases, it was only after years of work and input from countless inventors that something was finally created. Still, [...]
Posted by Evan Andrews on Friday, May 28, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre, History, Science · Tagged airplane, Alexander Graham Bell, Antonio Meucci, Astronomer, Auguste Lumiere, Calculus, discoveries, Electrical engineers, Elisha Gray, Engineering, film projection systems, flying machine, ford, Ford Motor Company, Frederick Albert Cook, George Cayley, Gustave Whitehead, HIV, Invention of Radio, Invention of the telephone, inventions, inventors, Isaac Newton, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, Johann Philipp Reis, John Couch Adams, Joseph Wilson Swann, Karl Jatho, LIght Bulb, louis le prince, Louis Lumiere, Luc Montagnier, mathematician, National Geographic Society, Neptune, Nikola Tesla, north pole, Oliver Lodge, Patent law, patent officer, radio, Ralph Plaisted, Richard Pearse, Robert Gallo, Robert Kearns, Robert Peary, savvy businessman, science, technology, telecommunications, Telephone, Telephony, Thomas Edison, U.S. Supreme Court, Wilbur Wright, William Friese-Greene, Windshield Wiper
Here are 10 unusual ways to get from point A to point B. Some are fast, some are inexpensive, others are “green”, but all are guaranteed to get stares from the people you pass on the street: 10. Trikke Scooter A Trikke Scooter is a fairly nifty transportation device for only $199. It basically works [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre · Tagged cycling, Dennis LeRoy Anderson, Electric vehicles, environmently friendly, Exercise equipment, Green vehicles, hovercraft, La-Z-Boy, La-Z-Boy Furniture Company, nifty transportation device, personal transportation, Recreation, Segway PT, technology, top 10 lists, top 10 personal transportation, TopTenz, TopTenz.net, transportation, transportation device, Treadmill, Trikke, Trikke scooter, Velomobile, Wheel, wheel bike
Before Yuri Gagarin made history by becoming the first man in space on April 12, 1961, a long succession of non-human astronauts had already been shot through the atmosphere in order to determine if life forms could survive spaceflight. Even after manned space missions became routine procedures, many different animals continued to be used for [...]
Posted by Brandt on Friday, April 9, 2010 at 1:16 am
Filed under Animals, History, Science · Tagged Animal, Animals, animals in space, Cape Canaveral, cats, doctors, Dogs, first man in space, fish, Fruit, guinea pig, guinea pigs, human astronauts, Human spaceflight, ivan ivanovich, manned space missions, monkeys, Monkeys in space, NASA, newts, Orbiting Frog Otolith, parachute recovery, pig space, plants and animals, rocket flight, skylab 3, Smithsonian, space, space experiments, space exploration, spiders, technology, Yorick, yuri gagarin
Hi-tech GPS enabled phones, more accurate guns and faster cars – The criminals have taken their favorite cat-and-mouse game with the police on to a whole new level. Crime-fighting has become tough but law enforcement agencies are not willing to give up, not yet. From vomit-inducing flashlight to brain fingerprinting, here are the top ten [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Monday, March 8, 2010 at 8:00 am
Filed under Crime · Tagged 3-D Technology, automated system, barcode, brain fingerprinting, brain responses, car thieves, cat and mouse game, chemical code, cognitive brain, Crime, crime fighter, crime fighting, crime fighting gadgets, crime prevention, crime scene, criminals, D.C., dna, electroencephalograph, Forensic Science, Forensic Science institute, gadgets, GPS, guilty plea, Gunshot Location Detection System, Law, law enforcement agencies, Law enforcement agency, license plate recognition, license plates, magic trick, nausea, neuropsychology, OnStar, patrol cars, perfect crime, police, police car, shoe soles, SmartWater, stimuli, technology, US Department of Homeland Security, Washington