The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: The Age of Technology. "During the last ten or twenty years, there have been immense advances in technology and its uses. Try to answer these questions about the technology of these times" Answers here.
1. Which firm manufactures the iPod and the iPhone?
2. What is HotBot?
3. Thermal imaging produces images using what kind of radiation: ultra-violet or infrared?
4. The Xbox is a video game console developed by which company?
5. The millennium bug was predicted to cause computer problems with the date of which year?
6. Which internet search engine has a name which is a play on a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeroes?
7. The letters LCD stand for what kind of display?
8. "Web 2" is another name for what system?
9. Which online company was founded in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, former employees of e-commerce firm Paypal?
10. Flash memory is a type of EEPROM. What do these letters stand for?
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