Early 2000's

  • Sony's J-Phone

    Sony's J-Phone
    First Cell phone with picture capability. This phone paved the way for the future of phones with camera capabilities. had a maximum resolution of 0.11 megapixels a 256-color display, and photos could be shared wirelessly.
  • Earth Simulator is world's fastest supercomputer

    Earth Simulator is world's fastest supercomputer
    This super computer was devolved by the Japanese government to create global climate models, the Earth Simulator is a massively parallel, vector-based system. It was the fastest computer from 2002 to 2004.
  • Apple iPhone is released

    Apple iPhone is released
    The iPhone had the capabilities of combination of web browser, music player and cell phone and could download a new functionality in the form of "apps" (applications) from the online Apple store.
  • IBM's Roadrunner supercomputer

    IBM's Roadrunner supercomputer
    The Roadrunner was the first computer to reach a sustained performance of 1 petaflop (one thousand trillion floating point operations per second).
  • Handspring Treo

    Handspring Treo
    Ed Colligan, Donna Dubinsky, and Jeff Hawkins found Handspring, Handspring introduced the Treo line of smartphones, designed with built-in keyboards, cameras, and the Palm operating system.