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    Wind Turbine Trees
    Wind Turbine Trees
    After noticing the wind rustling and turning the leaves on trees, French entrepreneur Jérôme Michaud-Larivière designed wind turbine trees that could provide clean energy for urban settings.
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    The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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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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    Bluetooth Name
    Bluetooth Name
    Bluetooth is named after the Danish King Harald "Bluetooth" who ate so many blueberries that his teeth stained blue. The wireless protocol is named after him because of his ability to unite warring Scandinavian factions, just as Bluetooth unites wireless devices. The Bluetooth logo is also a combination of the King's runic initials.
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    There's a Mumbai-based pizzeria that now delivers pizza by drone.
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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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    Mico headphones read your brainwaves and select music based on your state of mind.
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    It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
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