Top 10 Terrible Inventions

World’s First 256GB USB Flash Drive

Kingston Technology, the independent world leader in memory products, announced the launch of the world’s first 256GB USB flash drive, the Kingston Technology DataTraveler 300. It allows users to carry around a whole digital world, from thousands of image files to a whole database of documents. Users will also benefit from quick transfer rates and the option to password protects their data.

Skinput Turns Your Arm Into a Touchscreen Display

Those who find the touchscreens on their ever shrinking gadgets too fiddly to handle, will be glad to hear scientists are developing a new touch surface… your own arm.  Developers at Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon University are working together to create an armband that projects an interface directly on to your skin.

Russian Inventor Trained Computer to Recognize People

Beyond Las Vegas there is a world more pious. And in that holy world, a Russian inventor by the name of Aleksandr Syomochkin has developed a program that allows a computer to recognize people’s faces and then message them. The program is based on the input received by on-monitor cameras,

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World First's - Invention and DISCOVERIES...

In December 1975, Kodak engineer Steve Sasson invented something that would, decades later, revolutionize photography: the worlds first digital camera. It was the size of a toaster, and captured black and white images at a resolution of 100×100 - or 0.01 megapixels in todays marketing terminology. The images were stored on cassette tape, taking 23 seconds to write.

Augmented Real time glasses offer Instant translation

Projecting real-time language translation directly into people’s eyes, augmented reality glasses have been developed like “Terminator style”. Japanese tech company NEC has unveiled Tele Scouter, a system that can translate conversations in real time, and project subtitles onto a user's retina.

A Lamp Powered By Human Blood

Mike Thompson’s “Blood Lamp” is a single-use lantern that draws its energy from a drop of your blood, making you consider the cost of energy in a uniquely personal way.
For the lamp to work one must…