Ever wonder how photographs were transmitted to newspaper agencies back in the 1930s? If so, it’s called wirephoto, and photographs were first scanned using a photocell and then transmitted over traditional phone lines.
You’ve seen transparent OLEDs, but did you know that the blue LED was notoriously hard to make due to p-type gallium nitride? That’s right, they had to figure out how to make a blue LED was that would continue to operate for hundreds of hours, without destroying itself.
Unlike this gingerbread instant film camera, imitation crab meat requires quite a bit of technology to make into the sticks you see at supermarkets worldwide. These machines basically blend processed fish, called surimi, with various texturizing ingredients, flavorants, and colorants.