Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer.
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In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
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Kissenger is a pig-shaped robotic device that lets you kiss someone over the internet.
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All GPS units sold in the civilian market have to be programmed to deactivate themselves if they detect they are travelling faster than 1200 MPH or are above 60,000 feet in altitude to prevent them being used in intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
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Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have expressed their desire to see the search engine become artificial intelligence itself. To achieve that goal, they created the highly-protected “X lab.”
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