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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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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Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37 percent fewer mistakes.
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It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
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A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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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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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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