Random Facts #36 · 4:49am Mar 13th, 2017
LCD screens are actually see-through. They just have a backing to mount the backlight on, making them opaque.
Neil Armstrong brought a piece of the Wright Brothers' airplane with him to the moon.
Some tablets and smartphones (and IOT devices) have a "USB OTG" certified usb-port. It stands for usb-On The Go, and works both in device mode and usb host mode, allowing for peripherals to be used in the same port as the charger, with the help of a port splitter, of course.
It's possible to make a sweater out of your own hair. It just takes a very long time. And years of tearing your hair out. Literally.
CF cards, PC cards, and IDE hard drives all use the same connectors. They just get smaller in size.
ExpressCard is called that because it provides an internal pci-express interface. It was eventually phased out with faster usb speeds, mini pci-e, and thunderbolt, which, like ExpressCard, provides a pci-express interface to devices for high bandwidth.
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