The most significant technological advancements of the 21st century

  • Bluetooth

    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. Its main use was to connect wireless, mobile devices between them or with speakers, headphones, computers and share data such as music photos, or documents between them. here an example of how two devices are connected throuhg Bluetooth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FXCUuwZvk4
  • IPOD

    IPOD
    Portable MP3 players had been around for many years but the iPod – together with Apple's iTunes software – was the technology that really transformed the way people listened to music. The device's large internal storage capacity meant it was 30 times faster to put information on it and had more capacity than USB´s and every other MP3 on the Market. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz1ZWvZBGYM)
  • Skype

    Skype
    Skype has transformed the way people communicate across borders. It used to cost an arm and a leg to call family or friends abroad, but Skype made it possible to speak to them – and even video chat – for free over WiFi. Making people introduce in new technology alternatives that were cheaper and easier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx7Mmwnstqw
  • Facebook

    Facebook
    Facebook was not the first social network – it built on the success of earlier sites like MySpace and Bebo. But its simplicity, ease of use and exclusivity took it to the top of social networking. Initially what was a pruposal for a Universities social network today connects over 1.6 billion people worldwide, with users from a vast array of backgrounds, nationalities and ages.
  • Youtube

    Youtube
    YouTube has grown to become the world's most popular video-sharing website. Key to its success is the ability for anyone from anywhere in the world to broadcast themselves for free. As a result, YouTube is a melting pot of news events, political messages, music clips, hilarious blunders, adverts, vlogs, reviews, gameplays, updates and more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4dT-lW9260
  • Nintendo Wii

    Nintendo Wii
    Amid fierce rivalry in the games console industry between Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox during the early 2000s, Nintendo went off-piste and created a console that allowed gamers to get physically involved in the virtual games they were playing. The Wii controller detects movement in three dimensions, and can be used as a fitness device. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKp6PLwxsM
  • Iphone

    Iphone
    Apple's iPhone was the first touchscreen smartphone to gain mass-market adoption. Part of the reason for its appeal was the fact that it could be controlled using a finger rather than requiring a stylus. The iPhone went on to spawn an entire industry. Apple has now sold over 900 million iPhones globally, this phone will change the history of mobile phones, creating a new wave in phones industry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGoM_wVrwng
  • 4G

    4G
    (4G) Standards, with a much higher data capacity, supporting IP telephony, gaming services, HD mobile TV, video conferencing, and cloud computing. Making comunication and information sharing around the world more fast and efficient, with any purpose, from entretainment, to information issues. Changing the concept of how fast technology should or be able to work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UujN_pOcYI
  • IPad

    IPad
    Apple did it again in 2010 with the launch of its tablet PC, the iPad. It was by no means the first device of its kind, but it succeeded in capturing the public's imagination, and kick started a new trend. It has remained the single most popular tablet PC ever since, but Android overtook Apple iOS to become the number one tablet operating system in terms of user numbers earlier this year, thanks to a wide variety of cheap alternatives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBhYxj2SvRI
  • IBM Watson

    IBM  Watson
    Watson had to answer riddles and complex questions. Its makers used a myriad of AI techniques, including neural networks, and trained the machine for more than three years to recognise patterns in questions and answers. The victory was hailed as a triumph for AI. Leading to new proyects of robotics with AI, and to a new era in computing systems with the help not of software itself but cognitive system to make it, recognizing unstructured data.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xcmh1LQB9I
  • Google driverless car

    Google driverless car
    The cars have a top speed of 25mph and are designed to be perpetually in motion, powered by Google’s detailed knowledge of traffic flow. If the concept takes off, it is thought that driverless cars could transform the way we move around cities in the future. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsaES--OTzM
  • Biotechnology (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk1NkWl_W2Y)

    Biotechnology                                                                                                                (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk1NkWl_W2Y)
    At its simplest, biotechnology is technology based on biology
    biotechnology harnesses cellular and biomolecular processes to develop technologies and products that help improve our lives and the health of our planet, biotechnoogy did not start on 2014 but it is between this years it has grow to its highest point with the creation of mechanical prothesis for hands, feet, eyes, and realising proyects of artificial kidneys, also it has improve in the areas of fuels and nanotechonology,
  • Oculus Rift

    Oculus Rift
    Oculus Rift is a set of virtual-reality goggles that will work with your gaming desktop or laptop. You pull a helmet over your head, and suddenly, you're inside a virtual world that seems completely lifelike. You can run around, fight, race, fly and create in a way that gamers (or anyone else for that matter) have never done before. This mark the new revolution of virtual reality in the consumer market. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3Blbm6_ew8