

Google offers so much more than just search.
From the silly to the useful, these Google features will make you love Google even more than you probably already did.
- Google Image search "Atari Breakout" and prepare to forget whatever else you were supposed to be doing.
- You can set a timer on Google (and get an alarm to sound when time is up) by Googling any amount of time followed by "timer."
- Google Sky lets you explore the far reaches of the universe using images from NASA satellite, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and the Hubble Telescope.
- Google nGrams is a fun tool that lets you search for words in 5.2 million books published between 1500 and 2008 so you can see how much it's been used over time.
- Intimidated by huge numbers? Google will help you figure out how to pronounce that 12-string number if you type "=english" after it.
- Unleash your inner child by checking out Google's Build with Chrome.
- You can add "+anything" when typing your email address and it will still work. This can be good for filtering emails (for example, you could set up a folder for all emails sent to "youremail+datingsite@gmail.com").
- Google recently released a fun new Maps game called SmartyPins that gives you geographic trivia.
- Getting married? Google will help you plan your wedding, announce the news, locate a venue, fill in the plans, make a website, and more.
- There's a "Manual" feature in Google Translate that lets you draw characters or symbols.
- Find a gorgeous font that you can use for free (Google Fonts).
- Get your culture on by using Google Art Project to check out super high-res photos of artwork from the world's greatest museums.




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| Japanese Wrist-Mounted Finger Piano is very portable If you love the piano and want to play it wherever you go, there already tons of apps available on your smartphone for you to do so. However, playing the piano on a touchscreen just doesn’t do the instrument any justice, and it’s never as fun to do. Well, the Japanese Wrist-Mounted Finger Piano aims to change all that. Looking like some sort of weird glove used in some virtual reality system or archaic gaming console, the Japanese Wrist-Mounted Finger Piano is exactly what you’d imagine it to be. ![]() |
Red wine could also help fight cavities![]()
Washington: Researchers have said that red wine could help ward off dental diseases with fewer side effects.
M. Victoria Moreno-Arribas and colleagues explain that dental diseases are extremely common throughoutthe world. Cavities, periodontal disease and tooth loss affect an estimated 60 to 90 percent of the global population. The problems start when certain bacteria in the mouth get together and form biofilms, which are communities of bacteria that are difficult to kill. They form plaque and produce acid, which starts damaging teeth. Brushing, fluoride in toothpaste and water and other methods can help get rid of bacterial plaques, but the effects are limited. In addition, currently used antimicrobial rinses can change the color of the gums and alter taste, so people are less likely to use them for as long as they should.
Some research has suggested that polyphenols, grape seed extract and wine can slow bacterial growth, so Moreno-Arribas' team decided to test them under realistic conditions for the first time.
They grew cultures of bacteria responsible for dental diseases as a biofilm. They dipped the biofilms for a couple of minutes in different liquids, including red wine, red wine without the alcohol, red wine spiked with grape seed extract, and water and 12 percent ethanol for comparison.
Red wine with or without alcohol and wine with grape seed extract were the most effective at getting rid of the bacteria.
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Fact 1: The first hard drive by IBM
The first hard drive was made by IBM in 1956 and was called IBM Model 350 Disk File. The first-generation storage unit was huge, with a cabinet the size of a cupboard that held 50 24-inch disks and held an impressive 5MB of data.
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Fact 2: RadioShack
RadioShack was one of the first companies to start the PC revolution in the mid 70′s with its TRS-80.
What most people don’t know is that RadioShack used to be called “Tandy Radio Shack & Leather” after it was acquired by Tandy, a leather goods company, in 1963.
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Fact 3: The first palmtop computer
The Atari Portfolio was released in 1989 and was the world’s first palmtop computer. Two years later it appeared in the film Terminator 2, where it was used by John Connor to hack an ATM and retrieve the key to the vault in the Cyberdyne lab.
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Fact 4: The first mouse
Many think the first mouse was invented in 1970 at Xerox PARC. However, the first mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1963. It was a wooden shell with two metal wheels.
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This fact was suggested by Tiarnan Branson.
Fact 5: The digital circuit
Claude Shannon, the “Father of information theory”, invented the digital circuit when he was only 21, during his master’s degree.
Shannon loved inventions – check out his “Ultimate Machine“. When you turn on the switch, an arm pops out and turns it back off. ![]()
Fact 6: The Apolo 11 computers
How powerful were the computers that took us to the moon? Turns out that the Apolo 11 computers had less processing power than a modern cellphone!
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