Decade of inventions

Usb Flash drives

May 10, 2001

Inventor: Dov Moran
The first commercially-available USB flash drive was the ThumbDrive, produced by Singapore company Trek Technology in 2000. Later that year, IBM came out with its own model, the DiskOnKey.

Ipod

Oct 23, 2001

Inventor: Steve Jobs
Released on October 23, 2001, with 5GB of storage that held 1,000 128kbps MP3s, a two-inch black-and-white screen, and a mechanical scroll wheel surrounded by four buttons, it used a relatively rare cable connector—FireWire—and only worked with Macs at first.

Blackberry

Apr 1, 2003

Inventor: Mike Lazaridis and Doug Fregin
Following the release of its first smartphone in 2002, BlackBerrys quickly became must-have pieces of technology, first among business people and later the general public.

iPhone

Jan 1, 2007

Inventor: Steve Jobs
It proved that people didn't just want a smarter phone—they wanted a computer in their pocket.

Kindle

Nov 19, 2007

Inventor: Jeff Bezos
compelling e-reader. While the first Kindle was simple, it presaged all the entertainment-focused tablets that followed—including Amazon's own Kindle Fire line.