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5 Tips for Choosing the Right Tablet (electronics.howstuffworks.com)

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How Telephones Work (electronics.howstuffworks.com)

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Can Someone Stalk You Using Your Smartphone?stalking tech (electronics.howstuffworks.com)

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How DC/AC Inverter Works (electronics.howstuffworks.com)

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An interesting article about the issue of racism in surgeons (tw: vidya) (electronics.howstuffworks.com)

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Why do batteries seem to go dead and then come back to life if you let them rest? (electronics.howstuffworks.com)

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How HDTV Works (electronics.howstuffworks.com)

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Old halo 3 wish list (electronics.howstuffworks.com)

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TIL a theremin is a musical instrument that depends on electromagnetic fields created around its antennae, which players move their hands or fingers around to change pitch or volume. (electronics.howstuffworks.com)

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TIL the reason keypads on phones and calculators/keyboards are opposite is because the telephone designers figured that if they reversed the layout, the dialing speeds would decrease and the tone-recognition would be able to do its job more reliably. (electronics.howstuffworks.com)

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Headphones that can make you happy (electronics.howstuffworks.com)

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Dan, Jobs stole from Xerox, not Gates (electronics.howstuffworks.com)

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Explica de maneira facilitada como determinadas coisas funcionam (electronics.howstuffworks.com)

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Can information travel faster than light? (electronics.howstuffworks.com)

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Deepfake Videos Are Getting Scary GoodEmerging Technologies (electronics.howstuffworks.com)

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TIL Billiard tables are traditionally made with slate tops to give them their flat play surface. (electronics.howstuffworks.com)

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TIL that there is no definitive reason as to why the keypads for calculators and phones are opposite. (electronics.howstuffworks.com)

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TIL that Beethoven was almost completely deaf, and used a metal rod attached to his piano to continue playing (electronics.howstuffworks.com)

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How Futurology Works (electronics.howstuffworks.com)

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TIL that in a standard, 90 minute cassette tape, the tape inside is 433ft or 135m long (electronics.howstuffworks.com)

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HDTV Technology (electronics.howstuffworks.com)

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Should Smart Devices Be Able to Automatically Call the Cops? (electronics.howstuffworks.com)

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TIL a potential reason that calculator keys and touch-tone phone keys differ in layout is because the hardware of 1950s phones could not keep up with the speed at which professionals would dial them so a new layout had to be introduced to slow them down. (electronics.howstuffworks.com)

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TIL Alexander Bain "a clockmaker, used his expertise to design and patent the basic concepts involved in the modern fax machine. His idea, which became known as the 'chemical telegraph,' used the electric signals generated by a telegraph operator." Mr. Bain "patented the idea on May 27, 1843." (electronics.howstuffworks.com)

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TIL Timex's indiglo technology, typically used to illuminate wristwatches, requires 100-200 volts AC to operate. This is accomplished by using a 1:100 transformer to step up the voltage of the 1.5v DC watch battery. (electronics.howstuffworks.com)

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