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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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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To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!
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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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It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
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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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More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
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