25 years of eureka moments
Category Linux, laptops, Media Pc, internet, Business, Technology | Permalink | 24. May 2007
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We’re a nation of inventors in garages and corporate labs, creating new gadgets and
services that delight us and occasionally drive us crazy.
1 Cellphones
Car phones were around in the 1970s, but it wasn’t until 1983 that Motorola introduced the first widely available handheld cellphone. The DynaTAC 8000x weighed almost 2 pounds, but it still cost $3,995.
It was about as portable as a sewing machine. But the 28-pound Compaq Portable ? Compaq Computer’s very first product ? was the first portable IBM-compatible PC on the market. More than 53,000 sold in the year after its 1983 launch, despite a price usually topping $3,000.
3 BlackBerries
An obscure Canadian pager company, Research In Motion, shortened attention spans around the world with the launch of the BlackBerry mobile e-mail device in 1999.
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