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Apple iPod
Inventor: Steve Jobs
Impact: This beautiful creation took us out of the age of recording songs from the radio with poor quality with the ability to store thousands of songs with high quality sound. -
Arduino
Manufacturers: Smart Projects
Importance: This small board has made learning programing and circuit boards so much easier. -
Youtube
Inventors: Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim
Impact: YouTube has given us a place to share videos with the rest of the world. Before YouTube, people in America wouldn't be able to listen to the music of Japan or watch the snow fall in Sweeden unless we traveled there ourselves or knew someone who had a recording of it. Now, people all over the world can see all kinds of videos. -
Kindle
Manufacturer: Amazon
Impact: With the creation of the Amazon Kindle there was an easy, portable, sustainable alternative to books. -
Minecraft
Inventor: Markus “Notch” Persson
Impact: Minecraft was, and still is, an extremally popular game. Upon its release, it was only playable on computers. This allowed players to create entire worlds and devices in a video game.