How does
a digitalcamera work?
Find out on pages
260—261
What is virtual
snowboarding?
Find out on pages 264—265A vaccine for the measles has saved 7 million lives in developing countries since 1999.
Fiber-optic cables send messages fast enough to go 5 times around the world in a second.
Engineers have managed to fit more than 2 billion transistors on a single computer chip.
The IBM computer firm has filed the most patents (invention ideas) for 15 years in a row.
Over half the world’s oil is used for transportation.
Definition: Technology
solves practical problems to
make our lives easier. It often
uses science to find ways to
improve things like medicines
or communications.
TECHNOLOGY