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Pocket Calculator
State-of-the-art integrated circuit and LED display. Although efficient, it was far from affordable and attainable. -
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1970's Invention and Technology
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Home VCR
They were plastic tapes that held movies and cartoons.They were durable and took as less space than the reels of film. -
Floppy Disk
Available by IBM in 1971, transfer data, and create backups. Government still uses them today to keep records. -
Computer Email
In 1971, Ray Tomlinson sent messages to himself on side by side devices, thus creating email. He did it on ARPANET, a basis for the internet. -
Home Music Centre
Dynatron made the 1st Music Centre. It was high priced but combined a record player, cassette tape recorder, and radio combined. -
King Size Cigarettes
As cigarette companies lost popularity because of the commercial ban, prices dropped and the corporations claimed the larger cigarettes to be "safe", thus creating the popular king size cigarette. -
Hacky Sack
Created by John Stalberger and Mike Marshall. It was an American sport kicking a fist sized ball with a partner or a group. -
Pong
It was one of the first arcade games. It is a table tennis based game with simple 2-D graphics. -
Atari 2600
The release of this gaming system put console gaming on the map. It was called Atari VCS (Video Computer System) and first released the game Pong. -
Cell Phone
In 1973, Motorola employee Martin Cooper used the worlds first commercial mobile phone to call Bell Labs in New Jersey. Today it would cost $10,000 to buy. -
Barcode
A commonly used invention, even today, the bar was a machine that read code and represented its data by varying bar widths. -
Digital Camera
It was invented by Steven Sasson, a Kodak engineer. It weighed 3.6 kilograms, had a resolution of .01 megapixels and took 23 seconds to capture its image. -
Ink Jet Printer
Although invented in 1976, it became a consumer item in 1988. Today it would cost $1000 to buy. The black ink is one of the most expensive liquids in the world, it costs mire than space shuttle fuel. -
Post-it-Note
IN 1974, Art Fry came up with the idea of using an adhesive to stick his bookmark to his book. His notes have been used ever since worldwide. -
Apple II Computer
It was created by Steve Wozniak in 1977. Although preceded by Apple I, it laid the foundation for Apples trajectory as a computer company.