So if I throw my towel in the washing machine, I've now put energy and water back into that towel ...

What was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine. With newly designed graphics from Gapminder, Rosling shows us the magic that pops up when economic growth and electricity turn a boring wash day into an intellectual day of reading.

unless I use a front loading, high efficiency washing machine, and then it looks a little bit better.

The first fully automatic first generation cellular system was the Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT) system, simultaneously launched in 1981 in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

A flow cytometer is similar to a microscope,except that, instead of producing an image of the cell, flow cytometry offers high throughput (for a large number of cells) automated quantification of set parameters.

It's almost as if somebody came into your home and rewired your walls so that the next time you turned on the light switch, the toilet flushed three doors down, or your dishwasher went on, or your computer monitor turned off.

We've seen the creation of small computers in the '70s and early '80s, and who would have thought back then that every single person would not have just one computer but probably 20, in your home, and in not just your P.C. but in every device in your washing machine, your cell phone.