But, believe it or not, waterbeds weren't actually invented to make bedtime bouncier. They were intended to help people get better sleep. Waterbeds, as we know them, were invented in 1968 ...

Learn more The $40 PopWallet Plus for MagSafe from PopSocket is a card wallet that magnetically attaches to a back of an iPhone (12 and higher), and has a pop-out hand-grip that doubles as a ...

A lot of “American foods” — hamburgers, hot dogs, apple pie — weren’t actually invented in the States. Rather, they were imported from other countries. Americans still have plenty of ...

Musk is hardly the first inventor to have a complicated persona, though. Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and many others have ...

In fact, the design for the first tablet PC was set out in 1968, long before most of the technologies necessary to build it were even invented. That design was the Dynabook, and its author was ...

1840 - Guns begin to use pin-fire cartridges. 1847 - The telegraph is invented. 1850 - True shotguns in common use. In the second half of the 18th century, musket design branched out. This period ...

A new documentary claims to have solved the greatest mystery in cryptocurrency: the true identity of the inventor of Bitcoin. The question has captivated the internet since the digital currency ...

Humans put a lot of stock in numbers. Our need to divide items into handy sections of equal length is based on many things. For a start, there’s the 365-and-a-quarter days it takes the Earth to ...

NBC’s former chief marketer regrets selling an illusion that has had dire consequences for the world. I Helped Create a Monster I want to apologize to America. I helped create a monster. For ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be the inventor of new patents, the UK Court of Appeal has ruled. Patents assign the ownership of a new invention to its creator. At its core, the argument is ...