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Now people dont need to stand up to change the channel on tv, they can do it from their couch.
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This is a very good invention because now people can access their money and they dont need to carry bills and coins.
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Teflon is used in pans so food is not glued into the pan, now people can cook easier.
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Boeing 707-120 is a plane so people can travel to other places, now more peple could be trasported easier.
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Telstar is launched as the first "active" communications satellite--active as in amplifying and retransmitting incoming signals, rather than passively bouncing them back to Earth.
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Randolph Smith and Kenneth House patent a battery-powered smoke detector for home use. Later models rely on perhaps the cheapest nuclear technology you can own: a chunk of americium-241. The element's radioactive particles generate a small electric current. If smoke enters the chamber it disrupts the current, triggering an alarm.
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PC is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end user, with no intervening computer operator.
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The GPS is a satellite-based navigation system made up of a network of 24 satellites placed into orbit by the U.S. Department of Defense. GPS was originally intended for military applications, but in the 1980s, the government made the system available for civilian use
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CD is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store sound recordings exclusively, but later it also allowed the preservation of other types of data. Audio CDs have been commercially available since October 1982. In 2010, they remain the standard physical storage medium for audio.
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DNA profiles are encrypted sets of numbers that reflect a person's DNA makeup, which can also be used as the person's identifier.
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is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems
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MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression. It is a common audio format for consumer audio storage, as well as a de facto standard of digital audio compression for the transfer and playback of music on digital audio players.
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is a structure used to support equipment for studying the sun, and is typically part of solar telescope designs
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the online video sharing and viewing community
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is a wearable gestural interface
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MIT researchers are developing a microchip that will enable a blind person to recognize faces and navigate a room without assistance
