21st Century Inventions That Could Change Your Life

Bluetooth Enabled Umbrella

This invention is a bit much. There is a company that produces Bluetooth-powered umbrellas that also enable a GPS tracker. If you ever lose your umbrella (which happens a lot!) then you'll be able to figure out where you left it. You can also get interesting weather statistics if you're into that sort of stuff. 

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The More You Know

  • Google's founders were willing to sell to Excite for less than $1 million in 1999, but Excite turned them down.
  • The first breakfast cereal had to be soaked overnight before it could be eaten.
  • Mark Zuckerberg said a voting mechanism that says whether posts are good or bad is 'not something that we think is good for the world'.
  • The world record for the tallest stack of doughnuts totaled more than 3,000.
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