coOL TeChnO FaCTSss!!!

There are 500 apps added each day to the Windows Phone Store

















Google handles an estimated 1 billion search queries each and every day, releasing almost 200 tons of CO2 per day as one google search produces about 0.2g of CO2 !!!!!

















The very first Apple logo featured Sir Isaac Newton sitting underneath a tree, with an apple about to hit his head !!!












The first hard drive was made by IBM in 1956 and was called IBM Model 350 Disk File. The first-generation storage unit was huge, with a cabinet the size of a cupboard that held 50 24-inch disks and held an impressive 5MB of data !!!












Every minute, 100 hours of video are uploaded on YouTube by individual users 














Nintendo was started in 1889 as a playing card company !!!!














Many think the first mouse was invented in 1970 at Xerox PARC. However, the first mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1963. It was a wooden shell with two metal wheels!!!!









The computing power in today’s cell phones is much higher than the processing power of all the computers in the Apollo 11 Lunar Lander that put 2 men on the moon !!

Spam generates 33bn KWt-hours of energy every year, enough to power 2.4 million homes, producing 17 million tonof CO2 












Tech companies often test new products in New Zealand because they’re an ethnically diverse, tech-savvy, and English-speaking nation, yet still relatively isolated. If a product is a flop there, news is unlikely to spread quickly to the rest of the world and damage a company’s reputation

There is a factory in Japan which can run unsupervised for 30 days at a time. Robots build other robots at the rate of 50 per 24-hour shift. Such factories are called “lights out” factories because no human presence is needed. FANUC, the Japanese robotics company, has been operating this autonomous factory since 2001...