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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Sony researchers have developed a refrigerator that only opens when you smile.
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It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
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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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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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The blueprint for a floating city has just been approved by the largest port construction and design company in China. It's entirely self-sustainable, and extends underwater.
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The life boat was patented in 1845!
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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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