2000's Technology Inventions

  • USB Flash Drives

    USB Flash Drives
    The first USB flash drive was sold in 2000. Flash drives are used to store extra memory that you can bring to different places and plug into different computers and have the memory that you stored on it displace anywhere. They started at 128MB and costed around $30 to buy
  • Ipod

    Ipod
    Steve Jobs released the first iPod on Oct 23, 2001. It was a music player device with Apple iTunes software. The difference between the iPod and the Mp3 player was that iPods software allowed you to transfer music, photos, videos, and other information. It was like another storage device.
  • 1080p

    1080p
    1080p is a display pixel that we see when we watch tv or look at a computer. Before 1080p there was 720p which is a smaller resolution. 1080p was set to the standard HDTV high definition mode on tvs and later 4k and other resolutions will come out.
  • Blu-ray

    Blu-ray
    Blu-ray is a digital optical disc format that allows several hours of stored high-definition video. The most common resolution for blu-ray is 1920x1080 and that resolution has become the common standard for nowadays.
  • Nintendo Wii

    Nintendo Wii
    The Nintendo Wii was first released on Nov 19, 2006. It's a at home video game console that was marketed by Nintendo. It was the companies fifth largest at home console and later would create many more. The company didn't want to compete with Microsoft and Sony so they decided to target a broader demographic of players through gameplay.