Some inventions are designed to save people's lives. Some improve the way we live, while others make things easier or more convenient for us. And some inventions cause revolutions that forever change the course of human history -- light bulbs, automobiles and space travel are examples of this.

Of all the minerals mined from the Earth, none is more useful than gold. Its usefulness is derived from a diversity of special properties. Gold conducts electricity, does not tarnish, is very easy to work, can be drawn into wire, can be hammered into thin sheets, alloys with many other metals, can be melted and cast into highly detailed shapes, has a wonderful color and a brilliant luster. Gold is a memorable metal that occupies a special place in the human mind.

Oil. Crude oil. Petroleum. Fossil fuel. Motion lotion. Black gold. Black gloop. Devil’s blood. Whatever you want to call oil, you are dependent on it every day.

Quantitative easing (QE) is a simple electronic method by which a government or central bank “prints more money” to support private banks. In short, another bank bailout.

A vending machine provides snacks, beverages, lottery tickets, and other products to consumerscashier. Items sold via these machines vary by country and region.

Gold is virtually indestructible; almost all the gold ever mined still exists today… all 165,000 tonnes (182,000 tons) of it, only enough gold to fill two Olympic-sized swimming pools.

Great minds thinks alike.Here are some examples of those ideas coming up at the same time.

You would think that they would be born close to the same time but something so simple came late.

The development of the can was initially for packaging food. Today the two piece beverage can is a highly efficient, technically advanced, lightweight container for carbonated soft drinks and beer.

Live demo that fails is a personal level of hell that no one wants to experience, ever.

If you canvass the Internet for lists of top brands, you’ll most likely see the following breakdown: Coca-Cola, Microsoft, IBM, GE, Intel, Nokia, Disney, McDonalds, Marlboro and Mercedes.

Everyone makes bad decisions in life. Fortunately for most of us, the bad decisions we make aren’t broadcast to the world.

These inventions are so bad that they practically hurt either the pride or even the planet.

A great list of objects that in Russia are used to be accepted as genuinely Russian made, but seems that not. Or who’s copying who?