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Important Breakthroughs in Technology
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These are the most important sceintific and technological breakthroughs.
| | bluetooth - allows wireless communication between two devices |
| | cable television - more and better quality television |
| | CAT scans - helps diagnose brain problems |
| | cellular phones - allows you to be in contact with the world at all times |
| | chemotherapy - greatly improved cure rates |
| | digital hearing aids |
| | digital photography - expedited the development process and improved the ease of use |
| | digital video recording at home (DVR) |
| | fiber optics - offers reliable transmission of information over long distances |
| | hybrid automobiles - better gas mileage for you, better air for the earth |
| | hydrogen fuel - decreased emissions |
| | infrared technology - allows for simple inventions like the remote control |
| | Internet - evolution from ARPA to HTTP and HTML |
| | laser discs - DVDs and CDs allow for bigger, better video and sound |
| | laser eye surgery - lets you throw away your contacts and glasses |
| | liquid crystals - better bigger yet thinner tvs |
| | lithium battery |
| | microwaves - allows you to cook food faster |
| | mp3 compression - makes audio easier to work with and reason why iPods exist |
| | MRI - improved health care |
| | pacemakers - keeps people with heart problems alive much longer |
| | photovoltanic cells - makes solar power possible |
| | robotics - revolutionized factories and hospital operating rooms |
| | satellite technology - keeps the world connected and allows for global positioning systems (GPS) to exist |
| | scanning electron microscopes - stronger and better microscopes at molecular levels |
| | small wavelength lasers - allows microchips to be smaller, faster and more efficient |
| | smoke detectors |
| | splitting the atom - allows for the atomic weapons |
| | teeth whitening treatments |
| | tranistors - started the evolution of personal computers |
| | upc codes - speed up check-out process and store inventory management |
| | VOIP - allows you to call people around the world for free |
| | wireless internet - allows you to unplug from the wall |
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