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Mobile Headphones
John C. Koss changed the headphone game in a way that would make Dr. Dre jealous. In 1958, Koss created the first stereo headphones (Koss SP-3) and launched an all out assault on awaiting ear canals. Over the next few decades, Koss would come to dominate the headphone industry, and he would do it all without the need for a pesky college education -
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1958-1987
From the first headphones to the invention of a new document -
PowerPoint
POWERPOINT: The one you love to hate. All the knowledge in the world boiled down to easy, succinct, bullet-pointed meaninglessness. PERL: God's own duct tape, at least when working in Unix-based systems. -
World Wide Web
WORLD WIDE WEB: Invented by Tim Berners-Lee, it would soon change the way governments, business and people operate. -
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1989-1995
Introducing the world wide web through introducing bluetooth that buts a twist on the web. -
E-Mail
E-MAIL: Electronic mail goes back to the 1960s, but it really started taking off with Web use. By 1997, the volume of business e-mail surpassed that of regular mail. ADOBE PDF: Lawyers and other control freaks love it! Also, it was perhaps the first truly effective document- sharing technology -
Windows
WINDOWS 95: 32-bit pre-emptive multitasking made possible everything that has come along for the desktop since ' including the graphical Internet and Mac OS X. -
Google
GOOGLE: We'd call it the portal to the Web, except portals aren't this easy to use. The search bar is rapidly becoming the sippy cup of culture ' with more than partial thanks to Wikipedia, Google's query shortstop. EXTENSIBLE MARKUP LANGUAGE: Data that tells us what our data is. But this data is in brackets, so we know what it means, more or less. -
Bluetooth
Bluetooth technology was unveiled in 1999, but it wasn't until the start of the 21st century that manufacturers began to adopt it in mobile phones and computers. Now, with more connected gadgets than ever, Bluetooth has become an important part of our daily lives, and is set to be more so as the internet of things takes off -
Facebook
FACEBOOK API/GOOGLE OPEN SOCIAL API: Social network programming goes mainstream. -
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2007-2015
We went from the beginning of social media to contact lenses that wwarn of thin blood, high blood pressure, and suagr levels in the matter of 7 years. -
The First iPhone
On June 29, 2007 the first iPhone was released. On June 11, 2007 announced at the Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference that the iPhone would support third-party applications using the Safari engine on the device. Third parties would create the Web 2.0 applications and users would access them via the internet. -
More Like Humans
The idea behind the development of neuromorphic chips is to make them a bit more like us—and in turn, make computers better at navigating and modeling human behavior. These neuromorphic chips, being developed by companies such as Qualcomm, are designed to perceive beyond just their programming, such as being able to process sensory data and react accordingly. It’ll have a huge effect on robotics in the next few years and continue reshape the way we think of computers and our relationship with th -
Contact Lenses
Google are taking their wearable technology ambitions even further with a smart contact lens—but it might not be quite what you think. It’s not Google Glass plastered onto your eye. Instead of sending you Google+ notifications, its transmitters are used for an entirely different end goal: monitoring diabetics’ tears for glucose. Google lens are being developed by Google X, the offshoot of the tech giant that handles their most ambitious and risky projects such as Glass and self-driving cars. The -
Car-To-Car Communication
The computers aboard each car process the various readings being broadcast by other vehicles 10 times every second, each time calculating the chance of an impending collision. Transmitters use a dedicated portion of wireless spectrum as well as a new wireless standard, 802.11p, to authenticate each message.
