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The First Programmed Computer
In 1837, Charles Babbage created the first progranned computer. It is capable of computing several sets of numbers and making hard copies of the results. Unfortunately, because of funding he was never able to complete a full-scale functional version of this machine. -
First Television
John Logie Baird was born in 1888 near Glasgow. He had made money selling socks and soap. This business he sold off to follow his dream of inventing a television. It became an obsession and to survive he had to borrow money from friends and use whatever materials he could including scraps. By 1925, he was ready to give the first public display of a working television. The chosen place was Selfridges in Oxford Street, London. Shoppers saw slightly blurred but recognisable images of letters. -
Email
Email - Electronic Mail
Ray Tomlinson, the man who sent the world's first email (to himself, of course) wanted a symbol that was so weird it couldn't possibly appear in anyone's name; he chose the @ symbol. It said "QWERTYUIOP". -
First Hand Held Game Console
In 1976, Mattel introduced the first handheld electronic game with the release of Auto Race. Later, several companies—including Coleco and Milton Bradley—made their own single-game, lightweight table-top or handheld electronic game devices. The oldest true handheld game console with interchangeable cartridges is the Milton Bradley Microvision in 1979. -
Auto-Tune
Dr Andy Hildebrand is the inventor of the voice pitch-correcting software called Auto-Tune. The first song published using Auto-Tune on the vocals was the 1998 song "Believe" by Cher. -
Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg relaunched with a new website "Thefacebook". Six days later, Mark Zuckerberg again faced trouble when three Harvard seniors, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, accused Zuckerberg of stealing their ideas for an intended social network website called HarvardConnection, and of using their ideas for TheFacebook. Winklevoss, Winklevoss, and Narendra later filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg, however, the matter was settled out of court. -
YouTube
YouTube was created in February 2005 by 3 former PayPal employees. The trio who created YouTube is Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. The idea of creating YouTube came up when Hurley and Chen wanted to show Karim videos of a party that he had missed out on. -
Twitter
Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and by July, the social networking site was launched. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 500 million registered users as of 2012, generating over 340 million tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day. Since its launch, Twitter has become one of the ten most visited websites on the Internet, and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet." -
Robots
•Lara is the first female human robot. -
iphone
The iPhone is a smartphone that was designed and marketed by Apple. It is the first generation of iPhone and was announced on January 9, 2007 after months of rumors and speculation. -
Tumblr
It was launched in 2007. In early June 2012, Tumblr featured its first major brand advertising campaign in conjunction with Adidas. Adidas launched an official soccer Tumblr blog and bought placements on the user dashboard. This launch was only two months after Tumblr announced it would be moving towards paid advertising on its site. -
Self Checkout
Self-checkout machines let customers pay without staff. They are an alternative to the traditional cashier-staffed checkout.
As of the end of 2008, there were 92,600 self-checkout units worldwide. The number is estimated to reach 430,000 units by 2014. -
Instagram
Instagram development in San Francisco by Kevin Systrom and Michel Krieger -
Ipad
The first iPad was released on April 3, 2010; the most recent iPad models, the fourth-generation iPad and iPad Mini, were released on November 2, 2012. -
Robots
one third of US fighting strength will be composed of robots - US Department of Defense -
Robots
•2015-2020 - every South Korean and many European households will have a robot, -
Robots
Robots will routinely carry out surgery, South Korea government 2007 -
Mobile Phones in 10 years from now
They'll be all around, inside cars, bicycles. By 2020 Smartphones will be 100 per cent of the mobile-phone population, up from about a quarter now. Even the cheapest $30 model will be a smartphone. Wearable wrist-watch phones will start getting into vogue by 2015.Current shapes - slim, all-touch units - will continue at the low end. They'll all be smartphones, of course. At the upper end, there'll be serious, wearable phones, in wristwatches, even spectacle-frames. -
Robots
Intelligent robots that sense their environment, make decisions, and learn are used in 30% of households and organizations - TechCast -
Robots
robots capable of performing at human level at most manual jobs -
Cars
I'm sure you've dreamed it: Getting into a car, kicking your shoes off and leaning back with a good movie and a cold beer while your self-driven car takes you safely to your destination, without your having to worry about directions or pedestrians. Well, the technology we need to make that car exists. -
Languages
A tiny computer that fits in your ear, and translates what you hear into your own language? All the requisite technology exists today, and all that’s missing is for someone to connect the dots. -
Television
Contact lense Televisions, you wear contact lenses but you watch tv with them, where ever you move you eyes, the tv will follow.
Also rolled up tv's because they are so thin. So you can carry a rolled up TV with you -
Computer Animated Actors
By 2030, most film actors will be out of work due to competition from cheap computer animated actors. Computer Generated Imagery technology will enable us to create movies with animated characters so lifelike that you cant tell if there robots or humans. -
Robots
robots capable performing most household tasks -
Robots
first completely autonomous robot soldiers in operation - US Department of Defense -
Robots
robot "brains" based on computers that execute 100 trillion instructions per second will start rivaling human intelligence