It's a known fact that the iPod is the most popular music player available today. Since debuting in 2001, nothing has been able to surpass it. Apple's iTunes software can be used to transfer music to the devices from computers using certain...

The PlayStation is a 32-bit fifth-generation video game console first released by Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan on December 3, 1994. Successor consoles and upgrades include the Net Yaroze, PS one, PSX, PocketStation, PlayStation 2,...

South Koreans from Samsung have announced that they have started 3D TVs production, and this year they expects to sell over 2 million units. Samsung is the first TV producer who began producing 3D TVs. South Koreans currently producing three types...

British company Dyson invented the smallest vacuum cleaner on the market, designed specifically for crowded apartments city residents . Although the new "City DC26" is compact enough to fit on an A4 sheet, the manufacturer promises the same...

In 1884 Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, a 20-year old university student in Germany, patented the first electromechanical television system which employed a scanning disk, a spinning disk with a series of holes spiraling toward the center, for...

The IPhone controls are based on touching the screen by your finger. No more buttons. Software replaces hardware. The only form of customization outside of a lame default ringtone is the wallpaper, which you'll only see when you need to unlock the...

The Godfather was the first movie in over twenty years in which Marlon Brando was required to audition. In the movie E.T. there is a scene where the young boy lures the extraterrestrial with some Reese's pieces. Originally Spielberg was going to use...

Silver was discovered about 4000 BC. In the earliest Egyptian records, silver was considered more precious than gold. By the 1700s, Spaniards developed mines in Mexico, Bolivia, Peru. 60% is used in photography. Argentina was named from...

Count Alessandro Volta invented the first battery in the 18th century. The first spray paint was invented by Edward H. Seymour in 1949. The first working airplane was invented, designed, made, and flown by the Wright brothers. The game of...

The very first computer that used a stored program and data was built in 1948, and it contained only 1,024 bits! Before this computer (called "Baby") was built, computers had to be rewired every time they were reprogrammed. Baby's on-screen memory...

On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright made the first-ever manned flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. His flight lasted 12 seconds and covered a distance of 120 ft(37 m). That same day, Orville's brother (Wilbur) made his first flight, which lasted 59...

Google's index of web pages is the largest in the world, comprising of 8 billion web pages. Google searches this immense collection of web pages often in less than half a second. The infamous “I feel lucky” is nearly never used. However, in...