From the days of the feather ink pen – the quill, to the fountain pen to the ballpoint pen, to the body roll-on deodorant it is very interesting to see the process of thinking in the invention of the ballpoint pen. With changing time, although many interesting products like the gel pens have arrived, the…
A legend has it that coffee was accidentally discovered by an Ethiopian whose goat started behaving different after consuming some of the raw coffee beans. This was around in 800 A.D. An energizing effect of coffee was discovered first in Ethiopia by a clan of people called ‘Oromo’. Further it was begun using coffee to…
When thinking of a home theater, many of us think that we should have a big screen where we can get a bigger picture and a set of multiple speakers and a big sound which fills up the home. Typically, the home theater system consists of the surround sound system with sub-woofers. This is not…
A UPC bar code is nothing but a universal product code making it easy for bulk handling of products and commodities at various points of commodity retailing. It enables extremely high throughput for verification of purchases / supplies, logging the procurement into a database, stocktaking, point-of-sale handling, maximizing speed of handling, thus, deriving maximum profits…
The founders of Twitter services formed a company named Odeo after one of them had launched a blogging service called BLOGGER which was bought out by GOOGLE. Evan Williams subsequently worked for GOOGLE and in due course moved out to form a new company Odeo with Biz Stone. This company then launched Twitter. This new…