Have you ever thought about how a kettle turns off when it boils? Or maybe, how it turns off when you forget to pour water into it?
It there any thermometers? Not quite.
To understand what actually clicks inside, let’s take two separate plates of the same size but made of different metals. One of brass and other of steel:
Continue reading “How your electric kettle knows when it boils”Here’s what you see in a rearview mirror of a regular hatchback:
And in a rearview mirror of Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid (XW30):
One fun fact — in its doodle dedicated to 30th anniversary of World Wide Web, Google used stylized picture of desktop computer, that pretty much
resembles the IBM PC, especially the AT and PCjr models.
But it’s widely known that Sir Tim Berners-Lee — “father” of WWW (which we call simply “Internet” nowadays) — used the NeXTcube computer to develop and run the very first Web server and Web browser.
This computer was the property of CERN and it’s been designed and produced by the NeXT Inc, which was established by Steve Jobs in 1985 after he left the Apple. The company’s goal was to produce the high-end computers, and NeXTCube totally was the one of:
Similar specs were achieved only by top models of IMB PS/2 in 1990’s. And 80’s PC were not exactly suitable for Web.
P.S. Don’t take it too seriously. The title is just a joke ?
Here you can see how the screen of Honor V10 smarthone looks like under microscope.
This curved shape of subpixel rows creates interesting but little bit annoying effect, as if the the image was “knitted”.
But you can notice this only if you hold the screen VERY close to your face, and if you’re still able to focus on it ☺️
