Camera phone, 2000

  • Camera Phone

    In 2000, camera phones officially became commercially available.
  • Toyota Prius, 2001

    Atoshi Ogiso was the inventor
  • Blu-ray disc, 2002

    Two decades after the CD-ROM and a decade after the DVD came the Blu-ray disc, launched in 2002
  • iPhone, 2007

    In early 2007, Steve Jobs took the stage at Macworld in San Francisco and revealed a “revolutionary product” -- the iPhone. The smartphone that changed the way the public looked at phones was a three-in-one product, as Jobs described: “a widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone and a breakthrough internet communications device.”
  • Android-powered smartphones, 2008

    The world’s first Android smartphone, the T-Mobile G1, was officially released in October 2008. Unlike the Android phones you see today, the device had a “swing out” keyboard and a “chin” on the bottom that housed the phone’s navigation buttons.