Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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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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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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There’s an internet-enabled jacket which gives you a “hug” every time a Facebook friend likes your status.
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The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
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Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
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The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!
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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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