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Japan's First Camera Phone
Created by the Sharp Corporation in Japan, this was the first camera phone available to Japan's citizens. Weighing a hefty 74g, it had both front and back facing cameras and is the first cordless phone in Japan. It was only available to the Japanese citizens during the time. It allowed people to send and receive videos and photos wirelessly as well as away from home. We see how it evolved to today's phones and how much of an impact of today's day and age which could be reflected to the 2000's. -
Who likes to vacuum? Roomba does!
The self-piloting robot, Roomba, was released from the gates of its charging port to take up any leftovers that you may have dropped during last nights dinner. The Roomba took the shelves in swarm and became a popular household want. The creator's and sellers, iRobot, said that in 2011, over 6 million had been sold before it's 10 year anniversary. Roomba paved the way for other self-reliable devices and it became a reliable staple in many homes. -
Early Macs... Were they really that big??
Created by Steve Jobs, the Power Mac G5 was one of the earliest desktop computers released by Apple. At that point in time, it was considered to be one of the most, if not the most, powerful computers of that era. Though it was a powerful PC, one chief complaint was that it was too noisy! The G5 paved Apple's way to slimmer products and more eye-friendly. Apple kept this model for 7 years after it's release, but moved on to slimmer products. To this day, the G5 model has been the longest model. -
Hadoop the toy elephant? No, the program!
Hadoop can loosely be described as the world's best and biggest problem solver. Created by Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella, the two were able to help pave the ways for what search engines look like to this day. The also helped create the Google File System. Hadoop is the program that searches the worldwide web and brings in all the information to help you find what you seek. It was initially released with 5,000 lines of code, but with each release (some as soon as June 2021), more code is put in -
Now THAT's a Mac!
Introduced in 2008 by Steve Jobs at Apple's Macworld conference, the MacBook Air was the thinnest and lightest notebook (basically laptop) of the time. It stood1.9cm tall whereas the record before was held by Toshiba at 1.99 cm high. The MacBook was the first to not have a built-in removeable media drive but also came with the optional solid-state drive. At this point, Apple as said good-bye to ethernet ports and security plugins. This product allowed companies to build slimmer computers.