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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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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More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
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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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The life boat was patented in 1845!
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If a car is travelling at 55 miles per hour it will travel 56 feet before the driver can shift his foot from the accelerator to the brake.
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Energy is being wasted if a toaster is left plugged in after use.
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