Portal:Technology/Did you know/6


 * ... that the electric flash-lamp, a photographer's light source, was used as an underwater mine detonator fuse?
 * ... that American aircraft designer Clyde Vernon Cessna's most famous inventions included the cantilever wing and the V-shaped tail configuration?
 * ... that Linimo (pictured) in Aichi, Japan, claims to be the world's first commercial automated "Urban Maglev" train, but it has to be shut down when it is too windy
 * ... that in 2005, researchers at the Spanish National Research Council wrote the first ten lines of Don Quixote on a few square microns of silicon, using local oxidation nanolithography?
 * ... that omnidirectional cameras have a 360-degree field of view and have been used in robotics to solve the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem visually?