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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. But Trek 2000 hardly became a household name. This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000.

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Kinetic Green ropes in Piyush Pandey to re-create ‘Chal Meri Luna’ magic | Autocar Professional

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The idea is to resurrect the nostalgia of the brand, which was India’s most popular moped across villages and towns until the late 1990s and commanded a 95% market share. The company management intends to target the Rs 25-30,000 monthly income group that uses public transportation, such as shared automobiles or local buses.

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Warehouse Robots to Automate Your Living Room

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Well, it’s probably not going to massively boost your productivity or increase your own personal fulfillment all that much, but it’s an interesting idea that might make some things a little more convenient from time to time. So what if you take that philosophy out of the warehouse and into your living room ?

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Honda opens new Silicon Valley facility to advance connected mobility; refreshed 2016 Accord; Honda Xcelerator

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Honda’s Silicon Valley operation, which was first established in 2000, is charged with researching and prototyping innovations and harnessing new ideas and technology. UNI-CUB Application Program Interface (API) launched.

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A Brief History of the Office Cubicle

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The Action Office still has relevance today Propst may have had regrets, but it’s worth revisiting the ideas that led him to design the Action Office in the first place. Perhaps the maskitball was no match for personal headphones to tune out annoying colleagues. In 2000, the Bose Corp. Barren, rathole places.”

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What Texas Instruments’ Little Professor Can Teach Us

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What the article really shows is that Johnson had no idea how museums work. The Smithsonian’s Little Professor makes an appearance in Tools of American Mathematics Teaching, 1800–2000 , the 2008 book by Peggy Aldrich Kidwell, Amy Ackerberg-Hastings, and David Lindsay. (Yes, that Boris Johnson.)

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Faster, Meaner, Deadlier: The Evolution of BattleBots

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Battlebots premiered on Comedy Central in, I think it was, 2000. They've got more technology built into them so the team can have a person monitoring things like heat, and they'll know when to, for instance, shut a weapon down. We want to break any idea of "vertical spinners will always win." Now we're 22 years later.

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