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First ever headphones
Way before MP3's , dubstep and spotify accounts, Headphones had very little to do with music at all, the first ever headphones were actually used by telephone operators. It was a single earpiece that rested on your shoulder and weighed over 10 pounds. Kind of like a boombox on your shoulders! These were actually the ancestors of headphones as we know today! At a show in Tokyo, Stax debuted the world’s first ever electrostatic pair of headphones. The SR-1’s would go into production a year later. -
ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer)
ENIAC was the first electronic general-purpose computer, although it was supposed to be used to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory, its first programs included a study of the feasibility of the hydrogen bomb. -
Sketchpad (no exact date)
Ivan Sutherland published Sketchpad, it waas an interactive, real time computer drawing system. Using a light pen and Sketchpad, a designer could draw and manipulate geometric figures on the screen. -
The tentacle arm? (no exact date
Marvin Minsky developed the Tentacle Arm, which moved like an octopus. It had twelve joints designed to reach around obstacles. A PDP-6 computer controlled the arm, powered by hydraulic fluids. Mounted on a wall, it could lift the weight of a person. -
Computer mouse
The computer mouse as we know it today was invented and developed by Douglas Engelbart, during the 1960's and was patented on November 17, 1970. While creating the mouse, Douglas was working at the Stanford Research Institute.
A computer mouse is a pointing device easy to use and designed for the operation of a computer. It is a portable device that contains some buttons and one or more wheels. -
First cellphone
The first ever cellphone was invented on the 3rd of April 1973, It was invented by Martin Cooper and it is one of the most important parts of our technology today, without it we wouldn't have all of the smartphones we have today. -
The first ever digital camera
The first ever digital camera ever built was made by a man called Steve Sasson who was an engineer at Eastman Kodak. He said that the camera had a lens that they took from a used parts bin from the super 8 Movie camera production line downstairs from their little lab on the second floor of Bldg 4.On the side of their portable contraption, they shoehorned on a portable digital cassette instrumentation recorder. -
Shugart SA400 minifloppy ( i couldnt find the exact date it was made )
The 5 1/4" flexible disk drive were introduced by Shugart Associates in 1976. This was the result of a request by Wang Laboratories to produce a disk drive small enough to use with a desktop computer, since 8 floppy drives were considered too large for that purpose. -
ATARI 2800
The Atari was one of the first ever popular gaming consoles with controllers you could use for the game, it became very popular throughout the years you could switch the games and move around the stick to contoll the game, there are other versions of the Atari that people still play to this day. -
SONY WALKMAN
Walkman is a Sony brand tradename originally used for portable audio cassette players in the late 1970s. In the 2010s, it is used to market Sony's portable audio and video players as well as a line of former Sony Ericsson mobile phones. The original Walkman actually introduced a change in music listening habits by allowing people to carry recorded music with them and listen to music through lightweight headphones. -
First Gameboy (ゲームボーイ)
The first Gameboy was manufactured and first released in Japan, on 1989 April 21st, then North America on July 31, 1989, and Europe on September 28, 1990. The reason this was an important part of our technology is that it was a handheld that you could put your game cartridges in to change your game, it was small and there were many varieties of games to choose from. You could change and bring everywhere. -
Bluetooth (dont know the exact date)
Bluetooth is a wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from mobile devices, and building personal area networks, bluetooth has been bery useful because you can use it to connect speakers, headphones and etc -
Iomega Zip disk (no exact date)
The Iomega Zip Disk allowed 100MB to be stored on a cartridge roughly the size of a 3 ½ inch floppy disk. Later versions increased the capacity of a single disk from 100Mbytes to 2GB. -
the first ever IPhone
The first ever Iphone (also known as Iphone 1g and the Iphone 2g) was released on the 9th of January by apple, this device was the first ever touchscreen phone (with your fingers) that was ever released, this has changed because overtime many companies tried using the touchscreen for their own products, also apps were introduced (the ones you can download).
