A study made in the UK asked 4000 persons in the age between of 18 and 65 which are the world’s most important inventions ever. And (surprisingly?) the iPhone is placed on number 8 of this list, just below of “penicillin”.
The study was performed by Tesco Mobile and in the top of the list you can find: the wheel, aero plane and the light bulb. Just below of those three is Internet and PCs. Apple’s iPhone placed in number 8, just after penicillin and one place more important than the “flushing toilet” (?).
Other remarkable positions in this list are: 21, mobile phones; 25, Google; 47, Wi-Fi; 56, iPod; 60, eBay; 82, Facebook. Here’s the complete list:
- Wheel
- Aeroplane
- Light bulb
- nternet
- PCs
- Telephone
- Penicillin
- Phone
- Flushing toilet
- Combustion engine
- Contraceptive pill
- Washing machine
- Central heating
- Fridge
- Pain killers
- Steam engine
- Freezer
- Camera
- Cars
- Spectacles
- Mobile phones
- Toilet paper
- Hoover
- Trains
- Google
- Microwave
- Email
- The pen
- Hot water
- Shoe
- Compass
- Ibuprofen
- Toothbrush
- Hair straighteners
- Laptops
- Knife and fork
- Scissors
- Paper
- Space travel
- Kettle
- Calculator
- Bed
- Remote control
- Roof
- Air conditioning
- SAT NAV
- Wi-Fi
- Cats-eyes
- Matches
- Power steering
- Tumble dryer
- Bicycle
- Sky+
- Tea bags
- Umbrella
- iPod
- Taps
- Crash helmet
- Wristwatch
- eBay
- DVD player
- Nappies
- Ladder
- Sun tan lotion
- Lawnmower
- Make-up
- Chairs
- Sunglasses
- The game of football
- Sliced bread
- Sofa
- Razor blades
- Screwdriver
- Motorways
- Head/ear phones
- Towels
- Push-up bra
- Binoculars
- WD40
- Mascara
- Hair dryer
- Facebook
- Escalator
- Hair dye
- Wellington boots
- Spell check
- Calendars
- Cheese grater
- Buses
- Post-it notes
- Gloves
- Satellite discs
- Pedestrian crossing
- Baby’s dummy
- Curtains
- Bottle opener
- Food blender
- Dustpan and brush
- Desks
- Clothes peg
Any thoughts?
I guess it was only a matter of time before robots started to replace our athletes. Let’s face it, they’ve gotten a little boring, haven’t they? Getting paid thousands of Euros per week to kick a ball around. Bet they can’t kick it as fast as this Castrol build robot!
This monster was build in Japan and can kick a football at over 200km per hour which is roughly 120mph. Unfortunately, it won’t be making its debut on a team any time soon. I can imagine it’s down to the whole ‘killing an opposing player’ thing.
It’s ladled as an exhibition robot and was first launched to the public yesterday. Big news agencies such as Sky News caught it kicking a football on camera. As you can see from the picture above it’s basically a four wheeled machine with a spring loaded ‘foot’ on the left hand side. It’s controlled by a human operator.
This crazy spectacle will be kicking footballs at 200km/h over the next year all over Japan. Check out the power of this thing here.
Toshiba have just announced the arrival of their new TV – what must be the most powerful TV in the universe. It’s called the Cell TV and is available in 55 or 65 inch versions. Don’t it look good?
Well it’s the insides that I’m more concerned about. They have crammed in multiple eight-core processors which all combine to make it more powerful than ten average desktop computers and 143 times faster than rival televisions. Impressive right? Toshiba think so too.
The possibilities of what we can do are really endless,” said Scott Ramirez, vice president of marketing for Toshiba’s TV group, during a press conference.
The TV is also connected to the internet via WiFi or an Ethernet cable allowing content to be downloaded and streamed. You can also browse the net and hold video calls by using the inbuilt video camera and microphone.
2010 has been dubbed the year of 3D TV, well this TV has a processor which makes normal TV ‘jump’ out of the screen at you. This includes things like football which was thought too complex and fast-paced to be made 3D just a few years ago.
This TV will go down in the history books as a turning point in home entertainment, home computing and technology in general.
