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Originating in the XNUMXth century, the word “gadgets” became popular around the world in the 2000s as a synonym for high-tech personal devices. O Oxford Dictionary brings this definition:
"A small mechanical or electronic device or tool, especially ingenious or unprecedented."
In the absence of a word that has the same meaning, it has already been translated in Brazil as trinket in the cartoon version Inspector Gadget, 1983. A detective whose gadgets emerged from his body to face the most diverse situations (any resemblance to current reality is purely coincidental).
Now think about your life ten years ago. What has changed in your relationship with technology since then? A lot, right? So imagine the last thirty or forty years. Follow this journey into the past and discover the biggest influences of technology in our personal lives in recent decades.
1. Sony Walkman (1979) 1s2d5n
Being able to walk, cycle, go anywhere listening to the music you want all the time. What is very common today was a dream forty years ago. A lightweight device “almost the size of a cassette tape,” the ad said. With this news the Sony not only launched a new product, but took the first steps towards a new era: that of portability.
2. Cell phone (1983) 4m266k
That the cell phone completely revolutionized the world, and continues to this day, no one disagrees. O Motorola DynaTAC 8000 times was the first, developed by engineer Martin cooper.
The device weighed almost a kilo with the battery, which lasted only twenty minutes on a call. From there, its evolution started a fast trajectory, transforming it much more than a product line, but in the way we communicate.
3. Digital still camera (1988) 3f1o56
The first project was created by Steven sasson for Kodak in 1975, it weighed nearly four kilos and stored the images on a cassette tape. It is estimated that she had 0,01 megapixel. However, the company abandoned the idea because its executives believed that it would not be good for business, as it would threaten the photographic film industry, which in fact happened.
Thirteen years later, with a more compact device and modern storage, Fujifilm presented the Fujix DS-1P, which had some units produced without being commercialized. A year later, in 1989, his successor Fujix DS-X arrived on the market and started a new phase in the world of photography.
4. GPS Navigator (1989) 1i531k
Initially created for military purposes, the GPS was one of the most innovative solutions presented. The idea that a device could know its exact location and indicate directions to a chosen destination seemed like a scene from a fictional movie. THE ease of the device soon took over the daily lives of more and more people until it was integrated into the smartphones.
Without the GPS signal, popularized by the navigator, many very useful services, such as taxi apps, photo location and delivery tracking would not be possible.
5. IBM Simon (1994) 3d3e4b
A cell phone with a computer system and a touch screen that gives access to various utilities. Sound familiar? forerunner of smartphones, IBM Simon it had a calendar, calculator, e-mail and… fax! It was called the “telephone and personal communicator” by the company.
Due to its size, weight and some limitations, the device did not have great sales results and received several recall's, but left an important legacy, which would be continued in the coming years.
6. PalmPilot (1996) 39f4m
Lighter, more practical and functional than the IBM Simon, but without a phone, this was the main launch of Palm. With more affordable prices and an easy synchronization with computers, the device pleased the public and was a revolution in the corporate world, freeing its executives from the agendas and folders full of documents they carried.
Furthermore, Palm was responsible for introducing advanced functions, such as gesture recognition, which would be improved by Apple in the future on the iPhone.
7.Motorola StarTAC 2ip5h
After DynaCT 8000X cellphones were gradually reduced in size, but they were still true “bricks”, a nickname they took soon after. O StarTAC drastically changed the view on portable phones, it was a pocket-sized device with an innovative design and introduced the model “flip”, a system that opened the speaker to reach the ear and closed it covered the keyboard. It was also the first device to offer the vibracal as an alternative to touch, a function still used today.
8. Flash drive (2000) 544q3u
The comparison with a pen for the ease of transport gave rise to the name as it is known. All the ease of storing and managing files from a hard drive on a fully portable and resistant than CD's and DVD's. Transporting files is no longer a problem, thanks to flash memory, present in many gadgets today.
Unlike other types of memory, it works without the need for electricity and can erase and rewrite files at the same time, essential to ensure the mobility two devices.
9. iPod (2001) 3z1z5p
After the Walkman, this was the most significant change for music players. In addition to natural clean e ease of use characteristic of the products of the Apple , iPod drew attention for storing around a thousand songs in its 5GB internal space. The organization of the albums and its touch-sensitive button also marked the product. From then on, music began to free itself from physical media and began to become exclusively virtual.
10. iPhone (2007) 4c5v6a
The union of old technologies improved and wrapped in a great idea. This is the iPhone, pioneer in a wide variety of features in a mobile device: access to wifi, GPS signal, screen multi touch, gyroscope, absence of physical keyboard are just some of them. Apple's first cell phone was responsible for unseat mobile phone giant Nokia and take the company to second place in sales within a few months.
The system with applications opened space for infinite possibilities and banished piracy, maintaining the exclusivity of its sales through the App Store. The launch marked a radical change in the cell phone market, creating the line of smartphones, giving access to rich content from anywhere, increasing presence on social networks and enabling the arrival of equally revolutionary applications, such as WhatsApp, Spotify, Shazam and many others.
Which gadget changed your world? Tell us here in the comments the devices you found most striking! 😉
