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ERA1101
The ERA1101 is similar to the present-day hard drive. The exact date of invention is unknown -
X-RAY
The 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated. -
Heart-lung Machine
Animation of heart machine
Dr. John H. Gibbon performs the first successful open heart surgery in which the blood is artificially circulated and oxygenated by a heart-lung machine. This new technology, which allows the surgeon to operate on a dry and motionless heart, greatly increases surgical treatment options for heart defects and disease. -
Watch
The Hamilton Watch Company was the first to introduce an electric watch in Lancaster, Pa. -
laser
Laser invented by Theodore Harold Maiman -
Two-way telephone conversation
The first two-way telephone conversation by satellite took place with the help of Echo 1, a balloon satellite. -
IBM System/360
The IBM system/360 is the first mass-produced computer. It was a very successful product -
Calculator
CalculatorTexas Instruments introduced its 1st hand-held calculator based on the integrated circuit developed by Jack Kilby in 1958. -
911
America’s first 911 emergency telephone system was inaugurated in Haleyville, Ala. -
Video game
Video game console invented by Ralph H. Baer -
Mobile Phone
The mobile phone has changed how people talk to each other. Since the mobile phone is so popular, phone boxes have began to disappear! -
Digital camera
The digital camera was invented in 1975. It used a CCD sensor, similar to what we use today. Now, cameras are able to use CMOS sensors. -
Laptop
The first successful laptop computer is the Osborne-1. The first laptop with a graphical user interface was the Macintosh Portable, but it did not sell well due to high prices and the need to have a battery to start it, even on mains power. -
Macintosh
The Apple Macintosh was the first successful computer to have a graphical user interface. Apple's earliest attempt, the Apple Lisa was a failure because it was too expensive. -
USB
USB flash drives have appeared since 2000, and are currently very popular, as people are able to transport files around, without the hassle of large hard drives. -
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is launchedWikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project. It went on to become the largest and by far the most popular general reference work on the Internet. By 2011, more than 18 million articles (3.7 million in English) had been written by volunteers from around the world. -
Digital satellite radio
INFO ON RADIODigital satellite radio -
iPod
The iPod was invented, as Apple's engineers thought other portable music players had bad interfaces. -
The emergence of Web 2.0
This year onwards saw the emergence of Web 2.0 - the next incarnation of the Internet. Up until recently, it had been primarily a tool used to publish material for public consumption. This could be defined as Web 1.0 and was simply a one-way street. -
The world's first 1 gigabyte SD card
In 2004, SanDisk released the first SD (Secure Digital) card with a capacity of 1 gigabyte. Costing around $500, this was enough to store 300 MP3 music files, or 2,000 images taken at 1,600 x 1,200-pixel resolution, or around nine hours of MPEG4 video. SD card capacities continued to increase exponentially – doubling each year whilst declining rapidly in cost. By 2011, they were available at 128GB. -
Youtube
YouTubeYouTube is launched
The video-sharing website, YouTube, was launched in February 2005. It grew rapidly, reaching 100m views per day within a year of being launched. By 2007, the site consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000 - and in March 2008, its bandwidth costs were estimated at approximately $1 million a day. By 2009, the site had reached over a billion views daily, becoming the 4th most popular website after Google, Yahoo! and Facebook. -
iPhone
iphoneThe iPhone was Apple's first entry into the smartphone market. It was a huge success, but the first model did not have 3G or downloadable apps. -
Kindle
Kindle CommercialAmazon.com began selling its Kindle electronic book reader, the size of a paperback, for $399. -
Mind control headsets for video gaming
Best HeadsetsIn 2009, a company called Emotiv released a headset allowing gamers to control games from brain waves alone.* This was achieved in a completely non-intrusive manner: no crude implants or direct physical contact were needed. Sensors on the headset could detect the neuroelectrical patterns in the wearer's head, and these were converted into actions on screen. The implications of this technology are huge. Future mainstream versions will radically alter how -
HDTV
The Consumer Electronics Show opened in Las Vegas. South Korea-based Samsung and LG introduced their new 55-inch organic light emitting diode (OLED) HDTVs.
