In thepostwar America of the 1950s, many changes for consumers were afoot. New on the scene in this decade:credit cards, power steering, diet soft drinks, music synthesizers, and transistor radios. The baby boom generation made hula hoops a craze, and theBarbie dollbegan her decades-long, ...
Cell phones are one of the most pivotal items in our daily life. Imagine if we still rely on the pigeons to deliver our messages which will take days. The first commercial phone was made available in 1984 with the approval of Federal Communications Commissions. The first batches of cell phon...
This approach was followed by the EPO for many years by the EPO, and led to a large volume of case law concerning what can be considered to be “technical”, much of which is still relevant today. Comvik In a series of decisions made around the turn of the millennium, most notably C...
The “varying resistance” ends up sounding like a very angry, very drunk R2D2 with an ear-piercingly bad motivator. [Gizmodo] Posted inExperiment,Record,Satellite,Weirdest Inventions|Comments Offon Record Made with Conductive Paint to Create “Music” – Sounds More Like Angry, Drunk R2D2 ...
While plant-based protein has been hogging the spotlight, Perfect Day developed the “world’s first real milk proteins made without animals.” To achieve their cow-less dairy, Perfect Day paired cow DNA with microflora featuring the genetic blueprint of whey and casein protein. Through ...
It has increased over 30%, and its popularization and application in China has made China the first country in the world to utilize heterosis in rice production. Impact: until 90s, the impact of hybrid rice continued. Yuan Longping won the highest prize in China in 2001, the highest science...
But film innovators eventually started looking for ways to go wider and bigger. There was French director Abel Gance’s three-screenPolyvisionprocess for his 1927 epicNapoleon. There was RKO studio’s 70mm- wide "Natural Vision"film gauge that made a brief appearance in ...
While training, he made his first inventions, which concerned not only tanks, but also small weapons, and was personally awarded a wrist watch by Georgy Zhukov.Kalashnikov served on the T-34s of the 24th Tank Regiment, 108th Tank Division stationed in Stryi before the regiment retreated after...
Martin Cooper, American engineer who led the team that in 1972–73 built the first mobile cell phone, the DynaTAC (Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage), and made the first cell phone call, on April 3, 1973. He is widely regarded as the father of the cel