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Technology Timeline. 1998 to 2010. Marcos Moreno Knox College EDUC 207 January 2011. 1998. Self Heating Meals. 1999. iBook. Macintosh released the iBook to offer a consumer-friendly portable computer. First mainstream computer to have an internal wireless network. 2000.
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Technology Timeline 1998 to 2010 Marcos Moreno Knox College EDUC 207 January 2011
1998 Self Heating Meals
1999 iBook Macintosh released the iBook to offer a consumer-friendly portable computer. First mainstream computer to have an internal wireless network.
2000 Vegetable Oil Powered Car inventor Daniel Dingel Use of vegetable oils as a viable fuel source.
2001 invented by Abiomed The Abiocor represents groundbreaking medical miniaturization technology. Fully Functional Heart. AbioCor artificial heart
2002 Braille Glove Inventor: Ryan Patterson Patterson created a device that senses its wearer's hand movements and transmits them wirelessly to a tiny handheld monitor, where they appear as words.
2003 Camera Phones Phones with built in digital cameras were created by all major cell phone providers.
2004 Adidas 1 are the thinking shoes with a built in microprocessor that decides how soft or firm support the wearer needs. Chosen by Popular Science magazine as the best recreation invention of 2004 • Adidas 1 • Sneakers
2005 YOUTUBE the online video sharing and viewing community - was invented in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. YouTube was named Time Magazines Invention of the year in 2006.
2006 Wii Nintendo The fastest selling video game platform over the past two years has been the Wii; a small, white video game console that allows players to interact with the game through a unique controller.
2007 iPhone Created by Apple
2008 Hulu Jason Kiliar is the founding CEO Hulu is a hub for network TV shows and movies: Hulu offers shows from nbc, Fox, pbs and other channels, including free full episodes of SNL, The Daily Show, The Office and other hits the TiVo-less masses often miss
Since time immemorial — or at least since Pong — one barrier that has stood between gamers and total Tron-like immersion in their video games has been the controller: the joystick, trackball, mouse, light gun or whatever. This year Microsoft demonstrated a technology, code-named Project Natal, that enables players to control games using only body movements and voice commands, no controller required. 2009 Kinectfor Xbox 360 Created by Microsoft
2010 Apple is the first company that designed finger-friendly hardware and software from scratch rather than stuffing a PC into a keyboardless case. When it calls the results "magical" and "revolutionary," it's distorting reality only slightly. One analyst says the iPad is the fastest-selling nonphone gizmo in consumer-electronics history. iPad Created by Apple