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Curiosities
Surprising, useful and well-documented stories from technology, science, history and human behaviour.
- Oct 21, 2026 Cambridge researchers built a camera system to check their coffee in 1991 By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 20, 2026 Clyde Dawson picked a pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit for the first UPC barcode scan in 1974 because… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 20, 2026 NASA's Kepler telescope lost two of the four wheels it used to aim at stars By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 20, 2026 A 990-foot ocean liner that still holds the transatlantic speed record from her maiden voyage in 1952… By Brendan Brown
- Oct 20, 2026 A 228-year-old wooden warship still in active Navy commission sailed out of Boston this summer for… By Brendan Brown
- Oct 20, 2026 In 2010, the US Air Force stacked more than 1,700 PlayStation 3 consoles on wire shelves and wired them… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 19, 2026 On 3 December 1992 a 22-year-old Sema Group engineer typed "Merry Christmas" on a PC and sent it over… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 19, 2026 An 18-year-old in West Cork, Ireland mixed vegetable oil with magnetite powder to make a magnetic liquid… By Brendan Brown
- Oct 19, 2026 A steam locomotive built in Leeds in 1855 and shipped to India to haul mail trains was still pulling… By Brendan Brown
- Oct 19, 2026 A 2019 claim that Britain could cut 16,433 tonnes of carbon a year if everyone sent one fewer “thank… By Brendan Brown
- Oct 19, 2026 Galileo’s main antenna jammed on its way to Jupiter, leaving a small antenna that could manage about 10… By Make Tech Easier Editorial
- Oct 13, 2026 A 14-year-old in Pennsylvania mounted a webcam outside her family’s Jeep and projected the feed onto the… By Brendan Brown
- Oct 13, 2026 A bell in an Oxford University physics lab has been ringing almost nonstop since 1840 on the same pair… By Brendan Brown