Study of technology, inventions and scientific discoveries and advances

From goldfish swallowing to the Pet Rock, what makes fads fabulous and why do they fade?

The oldest known pair of shoes didn’t look like much, but foot fashion has come a long ways since prehistoric sandals.

Umbrellas have been shielding us from the elements for thousands of years, but they haven’t always been in style.

From simple smiley faces to sparkly unicorns, we have a lot of emoji options. But it wasn’t always this way.

Long before clocks, humans found creative ways to track time. From falling sand to burning incense, we tried it all. But it took a daydreaming astronomer and a whole lot of inventors to get us to the precise clocks we use today.

It’s a simple recipe: bread, filling, bread. But sandwiches had to get their scrumptious start somewhere.

Did you know that the ancestor of our smartphone cameras was just a box with a tiny hole in it?

Video games are a lot older than you probably realize, but it took a long time for them to catch on.