Modern technology has become more personal and a bit intrusive in our lives. Spending a…
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Blind people have managed to lead full, independent lives throughout history. But there’s no denying…
Numbers stations are shortwave radio stations that have dumfounded listeners for years. These mysterious stations…
Oxford University recently released a study concluding that almost half of today’s jobs performed by…
The invention of elaborately constructed flying machines to travel through the Earth’s atmosphere ranks among…
“When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” means that when…
While our technical instruments and communication devices keep getting smaller, our machines just keep getting…
3D printing is becoming a huge technological breakthrough. It is set to usher in a…
There are a lot of everyday things that many of us wrongfully believe were invented…
For the most part, clothing is fairly basic — it keeps us warm, covers up…
These days not a lot of people really remember the name Hedy Lamarr, other than…
Some of our greatest research and development goes into creating better and more efficient ways…
Wikipedia is pretty great. It contains virtually every piece of information mankind has ever known,…
During the Great Government Shutdown of 2013, NASA was offline and unable to continue whatever…
When people hear about inventors who lost their lives because of their own inventions, certain…
Adverts are a fact of life and, as people grow more and more accustomed to…
Everything is becoming increasingly democratized, especially technology. The opportunity exists for every citizen with disposable…
The world has experienced such an incredible technological rush over the past 20-30 years, that pretty much anything before it has been left in the dust. Let’s take a look back at some of the stuff you might have used growing up, but now seem like relics from an ancient civilization.
No doubt about it, we live in a world of rapid change. Whereas a century…
Usually when we think of “art”, things like sculptures or paintings come to mind; in…
The internet is not only a great resource for information, it is loaded with free…
Extreme has (luckily) lost most of its buzz-word status. It’s mostly back to meaning things…
Usually these lists deal with what was, but after finishing my top ten inventions of…
It is said that the first use of military aviation occurred in 1794 during the…