How groundbreaking ideas were brought to life
In 1937, American supermarket owner Sylvan Goldman wanted his customers to spend more.
The Global Positioning System, also known as GPS, was created in the late 1970s
In 1951, Harry Coover noticed a chemical he was working with was sticking to everything
In May 1960 a Norwegian toy-maker unveiled a life-sized, life-like training manikin
In 2000, two Polish students started creating a smart speaker which sounded human
In 1948, the first stored-program computer the ‘Baby’ was invented
In 2002, the 'Ken Burns effect' was created.
In the 1970s, Norwegian Tor Sornes invented the hotel key card
In 1974, the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ launched the world's first teletext service
In 1996, an electronic voting system in Brazil was used for the first time
Handmade robots were installed in DRC's capital city Kinshasa to direct traffic
In 1994 Japanese engineer Masahiro Hara designed a square of data, now known as a QR code
In 1946, one of the world’s first electronic computers was unveiled in the USA.
Scientists at Waseda University in Japan built the world's first humanoid robot in 1973
1966 saw the invention of Eliza, which is said to be the first chatbot
The 2009 attempt to give all Indian citizens a unique digital ID
The story of how a Viking inspired wireless technology.
Soviet scientist Vladimir Demikhov shocked the world with his two-headed dog experiments
In 1994, a tomato became the world's first genetically-engineered food on sale
How the chocolate and hazelnut spread was created in 1946
Chun Shui Tang tea house in Taiwan began selling bubble tea in 1987
How engineer Sheldon Kaplan and his team made the EpiPen, the lifesaving allergy device
On 2 March 1969 Concorde took to the skies for the first time
In 1972, a Danish brewery created Supermalt
