Top 10 Technological Advances of the 21st Century

Bluetooth

Jan 3, 2000

Bluetooth is a wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from mobile devices.

AbioCor Artificial Heart

Jul 2, 2001

The AbioCor artificial heart was the first artificial heart used to replace a human heart.

iPod

Oct 23, 2001

The iPod is the first line of sleek, portable MP3 players with a large amount of storage for music.

Mozilla Firefox

Sep 23, 2002

Firefox was the first web browser to challenge the dominance of Microsoft's Internet Explorer after "Netscape Navigator" was killed off in the "First Browser War".

Skype

Aug 29, 2003

Skype is an application that acted as one of the first ways to communicate for free through video chat.

Facebook

Feb 4, 2004

Facebook is a social networking system that is used to communicate with businesses, family, and/or friends. Currently Facebook has over 1.6 billion members of the site.

YouTube

Feb 14, 2005

YouTube is the world's most famous video-sharing website. Anybody from anywhere has the ability to post videos, as well as browse other videos from any category or topic they please.

Nintendo Wii

Nov 17, 2006

The Wii is the first home video game console that actually allowed users to physcially get involved in the virtual games, unlike Playstation or Xbox.

iPhone

Jan 9, 2007

The Apple iPhone was the world's first touchscreen smartphone. What would become a revolutionary invention, Apple has now sold over 900 million iPhones globally.

Spotify

Sep 3, 2008

Spotify is a music-streaming service that allows someone to listen to music legally. The company proposes the option of listening to music for free with advertisements and a limited features or to pay a monthly fee that gives you no ads and unlimimted music. Developed when music piracy was at its height, Spotify has 100 million users with 30 million subscribers as of today.