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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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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In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
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In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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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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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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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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