In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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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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Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer.
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There's a Mumbai-based pizzeria that now delivers pizza by drone.
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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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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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Attics were invented in Attica.
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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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