Technology Facts
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Samsung has started 3D TVs production
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 of TVs: of 40 (101 cm), ...
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The smallest vacuum cleaner in the world
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 performance as the biggest "brothers" . This is the ...
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Interesting Facts about Television
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 rasterization.. By 1927, Russian inventor Léon Theremin developed a mirror drum-based television ...
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iPhone interesting facts
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 device or when you ...
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Interesting Facts About Movies
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 M+M's, but he could ...
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Interesting silver facts
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 Argentum, the element of silver's Latin name. Silver is used for water purification, ...
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facts about famous inventions and inventors
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 basketball was invented by James Naismith (1861-1939). The earliest bicycle was a wooden ...
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Interesting facts about computers and laptops
The more commonly accepted ancestor of the modern laptop is the Gavilan SC, a truly portable computer introduced in 1983. Many tired people use their laptops as a pillow and fall asleep on it! More than 12,000 laptops go missing at US airports a week! The most expensive laptop cost ...
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Interesting facts about airplanes
Airplane engines may be classified as driven by propeller, jet, turbojet, or rocket. Most engines originally were of the internal-combustion, piston-operated type, which may be air- or liquid-cooled. Seventy-five thousand engineering drawings were used to produce the first Boeing 747. The first United States coast to coast airplane flight occurred in 1911 ...
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Interesting facts about google
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 trials it was found that ...
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Interesting facts about cell phones
Did you know that a cell-phone is actually a complicated radio? Some interesting facts about a cell phone is that areas are divided into small cells, with a cell phone tower at the center of each cell. The difference beween a walkie talkie and a cell phone ...
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Interesting facts about internet
The Internet is roughly 35% English, 65% non-English with the Chinese at 14%. Yet only 13% of world’s population, 812 million are Internet users as of Dec. ‘04. North America has the highest continental concentration with 70% of the people using the Internet. Official statistics in the UK ...