Key Moments in Consumer Electronics
The Consumer Electronics Association estimates that the US consumer electronics market is in a state of recovery and should exceed $166 Billion in 2010. This is quite the accomplishment for an industry and an economy that has largely contracted since 2007. In any event, one cannot deny the rate and scale at which technological innovation has taken place in this industry. In less than 40 years, we have gone from Pong to the personal computing tablet (i.e. the rumored Apple iTablet). Below is a timeline which highlights past innovation and change, offering a window back to yesteryear, and the iconic gadgets and technologies that we associate with our past:
n less than 40 years, we have gone from Pong to
[1/6/10 6:18:58 PM] Stanley Wong: personal computing tablet (i.e. the rumored Apple iTablet)
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Somebody really loves Apple company.
No mention of PC XT, dos, win 3.1, 95 or XP. All undoubtably milestones as much as imac etc
Interesting chart, but I always heard that DVD stood for Digital Versatile Disc and that the “V” was for video to help differentiate itself from VHS.
I’m surprised: no mention of Commodore at all? The legendary Commodore 64 home computer popularized home computing in the early 1980s. About 17 million units of the very affordable C64 have been sold. That’s more than any other single computer system, even to this day.
And what about the Commodore Amiga system range? The Amiga computer revolutionized the audiovisual standards for personal computers in the 1980s, while other PC’s were still not much more than advanced word processors.
I think Commodore definitely deserves a place in this consumer electronics key moments list.
Whenever a list like this comes out, there’s always some dork that says “What about X? How could you leave out X?” – I’ll be that dork this time:
What about the IBM PC? How could you leave out the machine that would become the most widely used standard in computers ever? It is certainly more notable that the FLO TV (WTF?).
HDTV media players … ???
When doing a key moments in history you should never stop before you hit the present or go into the future.
I’d like to add project natal for 2011 and augmented reality contact lenses for 2012
What is this list? More like an Apple company timeline. How can you forget PC? How can you forget Television? A list without mention of TV is incomplete…
Explain to me how a rumored, unannounced, possibly unexisting device is one of the most successful gadgets in history, and a key moment in technology.
You forgot the Creative Zen that came out in 2000, a full year before the iPod. Creative pioneered the mp3 player and invented the GUI, which Apple stole for use on the iPod. Now, Creative’s Zen don’t get any recognition
@Jem
All those Windows products you mention are knockoffs of the Mac OS.
@Matt
… which itself was a knockoff of Xerox PARC’s work.
I think this is a great achievement. I am confident few yrs down the line we will laugh at the fact that we wore glasses to watch 3D. Last month I visited Abt Electronics in Glenview and saw their collection of antique appliances.Just like electronics, appliances too have come a long way! http://www.abt.com/about/gallery_hist.php3. Check it out.
Uhhh, doesn’t the PlayStation 2 belong on this list? It’s STILL a great seller!!
The CD wasn’t the first Digital medium – the laserdisc was around several years earlier.