Engineering and Technology Trivia

  • 26% of iPhones are made by Samsung which happens to be Apple`s biggest competitor in the smartphone market.
  • The scientists have now figured out how to make an entire car disappear. Using optical camouflage technology boffins at Mercedes Benz created the illusion that their new zero emissions F-Cell car is not even there at all. Taking the principal that to see through something you need to see what's behind it, they covered the driver's side of the car in mats of LEDs, and mounted a digital SLR camera on the opposite side of the vehicle.
  • Two Japanese inventors have created a device that stops people from talking, it's called the 'Speech Jammer'!
  • The Mercedes-Benz motto is 'Das Beste Oder Nichts' which means 'the best or nothing'.
  • Justin Timberlake is a co-owner of MySpace.
  • The first Harley Davidson used a tomato can for a carburetor!
  • Between 2003 and 2010, humans created 5 exabytes of digital information every two days. That's 5,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of data
  • Intelligence researcher, David Levy, predicts that human-robot marriages will be legal by the year 2050.
  • The sewing machine was patented on August 12, 1851, by Isaac Singer of Pittstown, New York.
  • In 1894 there were only 4 automobiles in the US.
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