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Canon Pocketronic Calculator
While Canon is famous for its cameras, the company is also responsible for one of the first commercially produced handheld calculators. Shortly after it was invented in Japan, where the company is based, it found its way into the pockets of people all across the world. Today, there isn't a smartphone produced without a calculator on it. -
First Commercial Mobile Phone
The first mobile phone call ever was made by it's inventor Martin Cooper, an employee of Motorola. Later, this phone was named the Motorola DynaTAC8000x and became the first commercially available mobile phone, and while it had portability, it was twice the size of the average smart phone today, -
Atari 2600
Developed by Atari's new Grass Valley team, led primarily by Steve Mayer and Larry Emmons, allowed people the luxury of playing arcade games from home, like Space Invaders and Pac-Man. -
The Apple II Computer
Designed by Steve Wozniak and other Apple employees, the Apple II was the first commercially successful home computers and featured a colorized display, one of the first of it's kind. Apple's first product was a huge success for the company and made computers a more mainstream technology. -
Original Walkman Released
Designed by Sony's deputy president Nogio Ohga, the Walkman allowed people to bring the joy of music with them with an all new portable cassette player. It paved the way for other portable forms of music, such as portable CD players and eventually MP3 players like the iPod.
