Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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There's an "anti-smartphone" called John's Phone which can only make and receive calls.
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Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis had an online multiplayer mode.
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Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence in only eight hours, a group of scientists have claimed.
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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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The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
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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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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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