“Smartphones existed for years, but none was as beautiful and accessible as the iPhone,” says Time on the introduction of the device in 2007.
According to the magazine is the power of the device especially in the app store, which also the mobile app was a success and “the way people communicate, play, shop and work was changed forever.”
Top 5
the list of Time are a total of fifty gadgets. In second place is the Sony Trinitron, the color of which sold 100 million since 1968.
Interestingly enough, Apple is in third place, with the Macintosh computer that the company introduced in 1984. Sony is also twice in the top 5, with the Sony Walkman in fourth place. On place 5, the IBM Model 5150 from 1981, one of the first PCs.
The list of Time are also Dutch companies; Philips N1500-videocrecorder at position 12 and the GPS system of Tomtom place at 22.
Magic wall
Interestingly, the list is also the Magic Wand Hitachi, developed in the late sixties. Although the Japanese manufacturer had the device originally intended as nekmassageapparaat, according to the television device is Sex and the City often used as a sex toy.
A few years after the episode removed Hitachi its brand name from the popular device
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