VOCABULARY 1
Something that has been created for the first time.
What is an invention?
To rely on or trust someone or something, such as your parents for support, or your cell phone for entertainment.
What is depend on?
He is said to have invented the lightbulb, when really he innovated light bulbs to use a filament.
Who is Thomas Edison?
Albert Einstein regretted this invention after watching the destruction it caused at the end of the Second World War.
What is the Atomic Bomb.
This invention can be used while bicycling to protect your head and neck from damage by using an airbag.
What is the Hövding
Something that is an improvement on an older technology.
What is an innovation?
To find something unexpectedly during a search, such as a new formula or a country.
What is discover?
A 24-year-old Dutch inventor who spearheaded the Ocean Cleanup Project.
Who is Boyan Slat?
Dr Spencer Silver invented these by accident while he was trying to develop a stronger glue.
What are post-it notes?
This machine was created for a music video. It's only use is to spray its users with paint.
What is the Rube Goldberg Machine?
To make something smaller or to do less of something; for example, our energy consumption.
What is reduce?
Something that produces a lot with very little wasted energy, such as a hybrid car.
What is efficient?
A physicist and cosmologist who wrote the book A Brief History of Time and argued that Artificial Intelligence could ruin us all.
Who is Stephen Hawking?
Jane Chen invented this as a solution for the developing world to help premature babies to stay warm.
What is the Warm Embrace?
This invention turns your hand and fingers into a touchscreen display, like a cell phone.
What is the EyeHand?
The goal of something; its reason for existing.
What is purpose?
Describes something that doesn't take a lot of effort and improves your life, such as a new metro line built near your home.
What is convenient?
The original "Renaissance Man" who designed many prototypes for inventions that were not created until hundreds of years after his death.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
Nicola Tesla invented this as an alternative to Edison's Direct Current System.
What is the alternating current motor?
This is a technology that we usually think of as only for gaming, but has uses for education, space exploration, and vacation planning, among others.
What is virtual reality?
A thing that is done successfully; for example, creating an invention that works or graduating from Middle School.
What is an achievement?
Someone who is eager to learn or know something, such as a small child asking lots of questions about the world.
What is curious?
A Scottish-born scientist who researched hearing and speech because his mother and wife were both deaf.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
What is Kite Power?
This technology improved our daily life and usually comes in three main forms: suspension, beam, and arch.
What are bridges?