Tag: inventions
Invention of self-cleaning toilets – Panorama
As is well known, nature produces the best achievements – let’s take the Velcro fastener: We would have missed the ingenious alternative to shoelaces for children’s shoes if the Swiss…
Is the innovative power of science dwindling? – Knowledge
From Jan Schwenkenbecher It’s probably one of the most widespread hopes in the fight against climate change: Soon, very soon, smart people will invent something – a giant mirror in…
Chat-GPT and Bard: When artificial intelligences tell bullshit – culture
Artificial intelligence makes everyday life easier. Microsoft and Google are already engaged in fierce competition. But alas, the programs lie, curse or create chaos. From Andrian Kreye Since artificial intelligence…
Google announces AI program “Bard” – culture
Artificial intelligence like Chat GTP makes everyday life easier – Microsoft and Google are entering into fierce competition. But alas, the programs lie, curse or create chaos. From Andrian Kreye…
The AI behind Chat GPT: What the new chatbot can do – Culture
Of Andrian Kreye The digital world tends to celebrate its technological advances as historical events. Last week, for example, the release of the chatbot Chat GPT by the research company…
"The lion’s den": Betrayed and sold
Vox likes to celebrate its popular investor show “The Lion’s Den” as the engine of innovation. Often only the familiar is presented there as a new invention. Does the show…
Who invented the wheel? The oldest traces are from northern Germany – knowledge
Sometimes archaeologists get lucky. This is what happened in Flintbek in Schleswig-Holstein, eight kilometers south-west of Kiel. Scientists discovered one primeval burial mound after another there in the 1970s. Together…
“The Lion’s Den”: Inventions that go below the belt
“The Lion’s Den” Inventions that go below the belt Nico Rosberg tries on a controversial pair of boxer shorts. © RTL / Bernd-Michael Maurer Nico Rosberg lets down his pants…
Inventors’ fair in Nuremberg: Fewer and fewer free inventors in Bavaria – Bavaria
The number of freelance inventors in Bavaria is falling continuously – although a comparatively large number of patents come from the Free State. This is the result of a study…
Five unusual, innovative, social inventions … which caught our eye
Created in 1901 by the prefect Lépine to boost the economy and French creativity, the eponymous competition continues to stimulate the “Géo Trouvetou” of France. Far from the image of…