An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
12
A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
16
Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37 percent fewer mistakes.
250
Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
19
Mico headphones read your brainwaves and select music based on your state of mind.
7
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.
10
In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
24
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.”
-7