Top Ten Technology Inventions
No single company owns the technology, so the member companies of the group work to promote awareness and use of Bluetooth technology. The name comes from the 10th-century Danish king Harold Bluetooth.
Fuel cells have no difficulty operating in the hottest locations, but the coldest do present a problem. Honda's FCX is the first fuel cell powered vehicle to reliably start in freezing temperatures, but temperatures of less than 10 degrees F still prohibit the fuel cell stack from starting.
The invention: A major advance on the field ion microscope, the scanning tunneling microscope has pointed toward new directions in the visualization and control of matter at the atomic level. The people behind the invention: Gerd Binnig (1947- ), a West German physicist who was a cowinner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics Heinrich Rohrer (1933- ), a Swiss physicist who was a