There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.
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Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer.
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Students at MIT developed a wristband that can regulate your “thermal comfort”, which could possibly eliminate the need for central heating and cooling.
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An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
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