There’s an internet-enabled jacket which gives you a “hug” every time a Facebook friend likes your status.
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Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37 percent fewer mistakes.
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A small airplane can fly backwards.
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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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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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If a car is travelling at 55 miles per hour it will travel 56 feet before the driver can shift his foot from the accelerator to the brake.
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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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