10 Most Influential Devices of All Time!

you are watching cold feet in TV hey welcome to another episode of ColdFusion TV - gogo here our modern world is increasingly shaped by the technology we use each and every day it can make our lives easier provide enjoyment entertainment or vast amounts of information over the years there have been a few key mobile devices that would pave the way for things to come sometimes it's pretty interesting to take a look back at the precursors to our modern mobile way of life let's start with something from way back number 10 but this is their portable game system it's called the Game Boy and unlike older handheld games they aren't limited to one single game the Nintendo Game Boy from 1989 if you're over the age of 21 there's a pretty high chance that you would have enjoyed a feast Nicci games on the original Game Boy or its younger brother The Game Boy Color for a while there were all the rage and it seemed that addictive simple games and portability with a perfect combination for the day for those of you that aren't old enough to really grasp what a portable device from Nintendo really meant here's a small news report from 91 let's just say that video games that had the Nintendo brand were huge our video game industry is hotter than ever this season and one good reasons Nintendo was introduced from hotland toys but have things gone a bit too far so it has come to this therapy sessions for families whom you could call Nintendo or saw the peer pressure star like you maybe exploit it psychologists offices might get more crowded this holiday season at $200 a Super Nintendo setup cost twice as much as the old system and you can't mix and match some parents are refusing to be taken in I'm going to say no and I'm going to explain to him how people market things to make you spend more money but no matter how you play the game or which game you play things definitely have come a long way since pac-man number 9 the Texas Instruments SR 10 from 1973 1973 it was a time when computers were nowhere to be found in the classroom there was all slide rules and physical forms of counting then came the Texas Instruments SR 10 it really revolutionized the education system for the maths and Sciences anyway for 150 dollars you can calculate all the reciprocals square roots and slide rule functions you wanted I guess it would have been a nerds paradise but it would have made things a whole lot easier though number 8 the first Walkman by Sony in 1979 this was portable music not a radio but real portable music any song you wanted in your pocket basically science fiction at the time a personal soundtrack to your life for as long as the tape lasted anyway when the Walkman debuted in 1979 no one had ever seen anything quite like it people would have been asking themselves why is that guy wearing headphones in the middle of the street the Sony Walkman virtually invented the concept of personal electronics the Walkman was actually branded as the stowaway sound about and the free style until Sony finally stuck with the name Walker the first few units featured two sets of headphone jacks so you could share music with a friend and be social with your technology the Walkman sold over 330 million units in its lifetime number seven the Apple iPod from 2001 the iPod single-handedly saved apple from the grave in 2000 it was said that some of Apple's board members were planning to sell the company but fast forward five years and by 2005 eight out of every ten portal players sold in retail where iPods the first iPod costs $400 and had a 5 gigabyte hard drive the thing was it was only compatible with Macs from the second generation onwards windows compatibility came into the picture and literally the Scylla slimmin white headphones with a symbol of the 2000s number 6 this next one isn't one device but a series of devices and you can probably guess which series yep it's the Galaxy Note series coming in at number 6 in 2011 even though the Dell Streak came before it it was the note series that spawned the tablet phone trend and drove the screen size of virtually every device upwards companies could now think well Samsung's got a 5.7 inch device selling like hotcakes so an extra point five inches of screen real estate nail device couldn't hurt it made people realize that phones could be actually a lot more than commonly thought of course the note series wasn't perfect but it spoke hints of things to come number five the Motorola StarTAC from 1996 before the StarTAC mobile phones were literally bricks Motorola shocked people with this incredibly small device with a unique design yes it was the very first clamshell phone a form factor that would set the design standard for mobile phones for years to come but that wasn't all this phone pioneered the vibrating ring the StarTAC helped drive mobile phones into the mainstream selling around 60 million units in its lifetime number four looks like 1996 was a big year for technology because coming in at number four is the mighty Palm Pilot from 1996 of course this is where the PDA went mainstream of course there was actually Apple that beat palm to the punch a few years earlier with the Newton but really the Newton wasn't designed well and had poor handwriting recognition which was supposed to be its main selling point on the other hand the pine pilot gave professionals freedom from their pcs for the very first time with syncable address books date book a memo pad and much more number three the IBM Simon from 1994 now this was pretty much the first smartphone ever conceived it had everything to make it a smartphone but way before its time it had a 4.5 inch touchscreen with no buttons it could send and receive faxes and emails had an address book a calendar an appointment scheduler a calculator a world time clock and electronic notepad handwritten annotations and much more and this was 20 years ago the IBM Simon was literally just too advanced for his time and people back then didn't have a clue what they're looking at but of course the IBM Simon's legacy would be picked up many years later number 2 the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x from 1983 and if you don't know this was the very first mobile phone the one that started it all and who better to explain it to us than the guy that invented it mr. Martin Cooper he is an interview with the first phone literally caught what would today be a million dollars we have to virtually shut down all engineering at our company and have her everybody working on the phone and the infrastructure to make the phone work even in 1983 a portable handheld cellular telephone not unlike this one cost $4,000 $4,000 which would be the equivalent of more than $10,000 today the team that actually put the parts together in this did an extraordinary job but they have to squeeze many may thousands of parts into this phone the industrial designers also did a superb job but their design was this big and and it was shaped like this but by the time the engineers got done we ended up with two and a half pounds over two kilos a very substantial part of that first phone was in fact battery and even then we had a battery that weighed four or five times more than an entire cell phone does today and even then the battery life time was 20 minutes but that wasn't really a big problem because you couldn't hold that phone up for 20 minutes I hope you enjoyed the video so far but before we get to number one let's just take a quick break and then I'll be back straight after this America Online introduces new version 4.0 there has never been a better time to get online everyone I know is on it we've spent over 1 billion dollars to create a state-of-the-art high-speed network and with 56 K connections are faster than ever it's the ultimate local guide near 4.0 check it out it's my connection to the world America Online number one an iPod a phone and an Internet communicator an iPod a phone are you getting it these are not three separate devices this is one device and we are calling it iPhone today today Apple is going to reinvent the phone what else can I say this was the device that changed how we think about the mobile phone the phone was no longer something you just made calls with and did organizational tasks with now the phone could be basically anything that you imagined the key was the screen technology and the App Store most touchscreen phones around the 2007 period were using resistive touchscreen technology which was slow clunky and just hard to use Steve Jobs was adamant to cram capacitive touchscreen technology into his device no matter how hard it was going to be capacitive touchscreen technology is incredibly accurate slick and it allowed for easy multi-touch gestures and it proved to be the way forward and sure the iPhone was locked down and closed off but there's no denying that this device paved the way forward but I can't leave it there because there is a little bit of controversy between the LG Prada and the iPhone as the LG Prada went on sale one month before the iPhone and had a similar overall concept but as history tells us the iPhone proved to be much more influential so there you have it the top 10 most influential devices of our time without some of these devices our modern society could have been quite a bit different today thanks for watching and don't forget to give it a thumbs up comment and subscribe if you enjoyed it if you want to see more alternative tech stuff like this my channel is bursting with this so take a look around and enjoy anyway you guys have a good one and on cash again soon for the next video cheers guys how shootin it's me thinking you

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Keywords: Mobile Device, all time top 10, best device, best devices, most influential, ipod, dynatac, gameboy, iphone, sony walkman, original, ibm simon, coldfustion, history, phone

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Length: 10min 36sec (636 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 01 2014