Technology & Innovation

The can opener was invented 48 years after the can.

Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented or significantly improved by women inventors.

TYPEWRITER is one of the longest common words that can be typed using only the top row of a QWERTY keyboard, though three obscure 11-letter words (rupturewort, proprietory, and proterotype) technically hold the record.

Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.

A famous comparison claims radio took 38 years to reach 50 million users, television took 13 years, and the World Wide Web just 4 years—though these widely-cited numbers from a Morgan Stanley report lack precise methodology, they illustrate a real trend of accelerating technology adoption.

There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.

"Stewardesses" is the longest common English word that can be typed using only the left hand on a standard QWERTY keyboard.

The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.

To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!

Facebook pays at least $500 if you can find a way to hack the site.

If you get water flowing fast enough, it can cut metal.

The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.

The technology of a single Game Boy exceeds all the computing power that was used to put the first man on moon in 1969.

On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.

Steve Jobs was half Arab.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

German inventor Konrad Zuse built the Z1, the world's first freely programmable computer using binary logic, between 1936-1938 in his parents' living room. His Z2, completed in 1940, improved on the design by introducing electromechanical relays for better reliability.

One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.

E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.