- The most expensive part of the iPhone X according to IHS market, is
the display which costs $110. - Some people give credit to Benjamin Franklin for discovering
electricity, but his experiments only helped to establish the connection
between lightning and electricity, nothing more.
The truth about the discovery of electricity actually goes back more than
two thousand years. Researchers and archaeologists discovered pots with
sheets of copper inside that may have been ancient batteries meant to
produce light. - The human body produces around 100watts of power.
Electrocardiogram (ECG) records the electrical signal from your heart
to check for different heart conditions. - In 1792, the White House has only been electrified for over a century.
President Benjamin Harrison and his wife Caroline were the first to
live in an electrified White House, but electricity was so new at the
time that the couple refused to touch the light switches for fear of
electric shock. The White House staff was in charge of turning the
lights on and off. - Gary Starkweather invented the first laser printer in 1969 at the Xerox
the research lab in Webster, New York. - Research shows that whoever shows the ‘peace’ sign in front of
the camera, their privacy can be theft. There are such cameras that can
capture your exact fingerprint even from a distance. - ‘Attacks of the clones’ (2002) is the first Hollywood movie which was
recorded in the HD camera. - The word ‘camera’ is derived from a Latin word ‘camera obscura’
which means a dark chamber. - Photoshop was developed in 1987 by two brothers, Thomas and John
Knoll who sold the distribution license to adobe systems Incorporated
in 1988. Photoshop was earlier knows as Image Pro. - Xiaomi Mi3 was considered as the world’s fastest smartphone at
the time of its launch and sold 15000 Mi3 units in 2 seconds in India.
Later, in 2014, they managed to break the Guinness World Record by
selling 2.1 million smartphones in just one day.
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