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Top 10 Technological Advances of the 21st Century

  • Bluetooth

    Bluetooth

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

    AbioCor Artificial Heart

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

    iPod

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

    Mozilla Firefox

    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

    Skype

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

    Facebook

    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

    YouTube

    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

    Nintendo Wii

    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

    iPhone

    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

    Spotify

    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.

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