First Genetically Modified Food

The first genetically-engineered food to become commercially available was a tomato. TheFlavr Savr, created by biotechnology company Calgene, was FDA-approved in 1994. It was designed to prevent rotting by slowing the ripening process. However, they weren't economically viable and the tomatoes were off the shelves by 1997.

Nokia - origin of the name

Nokia began its existence far from the world of mobile technology—as a paper mill. The nascent company’s second groundwood pulp mill was built near the town of Nokia (about 100 miles northwest of Helsinki), which the company decided to adopt as its name when it became a public share company in 1871.

Bacn

Bacn (pronounced like bacon) is email that has been subscribed to and is therefore solicited (unlike email spam is), but is often not read by the recipient for a long period of time, if at all. Bacn has been described as "email you want but not right now."^[1][2]

Bacn differs from spam in that the recipient has signed up to receive it. Bacn is also not necessarily sent in bulk. Some examples of common bacn messages are news alerts, periodic messages from e-merchants from whom one has made previous purchases, messages from social networking sites, and wiki watch lists.^[3]

Name of the Android robot logo

Bugdroid is the name of the robotic logo of Android

Mercedes-Benz logo - it's meaning

Mercedes-Benz

The rounded logo of Mercedes-Benz with a three-cornered star in between, has three white spaces which represent land, sky and sea. The meaning of this is that Mercedes-Benz is dominant over them all.

Sisyphean Task

Sisyphus - (Greek legend) a king in ancient Greece whooffended Zeus and whose punishment was to roll a huge boulderto the top of a steep hill; each time the boulder neared the top itrolled back down and Sisyphus was forced to start again