SCIENCE

1. CAMERA
In 1991 Kodakintroducedthe first reflex camera, Kodak DCS-100. Since the year 2000 cameras using
digital records started to overcome ordinary film cameras. The world’s first single use disposable
camera, the Fuji QuickSnap, was invented in 1986. And in 2000 was introduces the very first phone
with camera, Sharp J-SHO4.
BLU-RAY
The first DVR Blue prototypes were unveiled at the CEATEC exhibition in October 2000 by Sony. In
2002 the projectwas officiallyannouncedasBlu-rayDisc.The firstconsumerdevice arrived in stores
on April 2003.
WI-FI
On June 1997 was created the first standard under code 802.11. It was very slow – transmission
speed was just 2 Mb/s. The speed depends on the Wi-Fi standard but nowadays it can be up to 600
Mb/s. The biggestcompanyproducingwirelessnetdevicesTP-Linkestablished on world’s market in
2005. FirststandardsusedWEP securitysince 1997 but itwasn’tverysafe.Soin 2002 wasdiscovered
much safer security – WPA. And 2 years later was added new standard WPA2 (which is popular
nowadays.

2. DOLLY (THE SHEEP)
Dollywasthe firstmammal clonedfroman adultsomaticcell.She hadthree mothers - one provided
the egg, another DNA and a third carried the cloned embryo to term. She was created 5th July 1996
using the technique of somatic cell nuclear transfer. She gave birth to 6 healthy lambs and died on
14th February 2003.
3D COLORED DRAWINGS
A newDisneyResearchprojecthasbuilt an interactive Android and iOS coloring book app using the
Unity game engine that can take a colored drawing and turn it into an augmented reality object on
screen.
ARTIFICIAL REPLACEMENT VOCAL CORDS
People with damaged vocal cords or larynx cancer may one day talk and even sing again with the
help of lab-grown vocal cords. Czech researchers have grown vocal cords in the lab. This suggested
replacement would be made-to-measure to every patient and it would be tuned by their original
voice.