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- bking, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17How does "first" compare to smallest? This article sucks on a lot of levels.
- muaddib420, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17i'm sure that's what they'll say about our current input devices...
"computer... hello, computer"
"just use the keyboard"
"keyboard. how quaint." - remiprev, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Yeah, that haircut is stupid.
- digitalgopher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10just too funny for words: http://www.zigzagdesigns.com/technology/eight_inch_floppy_drive.jpg
- cplusplus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Would be interesting to see the then and now prices too.
- PhrosTT, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7This article seems wrong in a lot of aspects....
First off, that Exilim is no way the smallest digicam out today.. even within the realm of decent specs...
Second, a mini-SD is way smaller than the OCZ MiniKart
Third, the RIO PMP 300 was the first mp3 player anybody ever heard about. - ogre2112, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7The first digital camera was not the Apple QuickTake. They have it listed as 1995, and let me tell you, I have had my picture taken digitally to a file much earlier than that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_camera - jblade, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Really mistitled, its really then vs smallest now.
- Eagle.007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5http://duggmirror.com/tech_news/Technology_Then_Vs_Now/
- TRENT310, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I don't get what's wrong with someone making a page on their website about this. Okay, the information isn't really correct with 'first devices' -- I think they mean normal, consumer use devices. But does a tech article really need to be on a technologically oriented website to work?
- mistermanoli, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4nothing beats the Zack Morris cell phone...
- metalhead3767, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Makes you think about what people will be saying years from now about the technology we have today.
- antdude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4How about those tiny mice. I get carpal syndromes from those!
- skoobisnaxs, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7crappy page made JUST for digg. spam for ad clicks. the host, www.zigzagdesigns.com does screen printing. there is NO INFORMATION about any of these products on this website. its actually pretty *****. NO DIGG FOR SPAM.
- MrBabyMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Gives me great hope for those recently announced HUGE rack-mount sized Holographic drives.
- emorphien, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Definitely a bit inaccurate, hell the first one threw the whole page out the window. That wasn't the first consumer digital camera.
- venom8599, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Sorry Reziarfg, but that's not the most awesome ST movie ever. Noting can top: "KHAAAAAN!"
- danmed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Is it just me or do theses things mean nothing without the specs.. thats whats more impressive..
maybe if the title was
Size Comparrison : Then Vs. Now
i find it amazing how far cell phone technology has come let alone anything else.. - rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The outside order guy at In and Out Burgers has more technology in his hands than they had in a room back then.
- ez12a, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3miniKart is a usb thumb drive. You dont need a microSD to SD adapter.
- sophiaperennis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I love that picture of the DynaTAC 8000X. One of my friends had one of those for the longest time, before they finally forced him to change to a new phone. We would sometimes ask him: Who are you trying to call, Mars?!
- ggko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Badly placed advertising words. The company that owns the domain apparently doesn't do any actual design despite the name.
- ez12a, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the microSD card i just pulled from my cellphone can fit in a dime...
edit: ahh its a USB stick. - Garaphin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I think what is striking about this is how little has changed, really. Sure capacity has gone up, and ergonomics has been introduced on a lot of devices... but really that MP3 player doesn't look all that different from an iPod in terms of form-factor. The mouse is still a mouse and would work just fine on most PCs today.
What this says to me the most is that there is a lack of innovation in terms of how we interact with technology. - theworldisround, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3OH ***** SOMEONE MADE A WEB PAGE AND SUBMITTED IT TO DIGG BUT IT IS A NEW WEB PAGE ZOMG ONE ONE ONE ONE
- ator1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2What about the tiny video player in the first pic? What up with that?
- Pharaoh777, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A bit inaccurate, but still - look at that and tell me technology doesn't increase exponentially.
- lustre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes. True. Sony had a large format digital camera in the early 90s primarily intended for catalog work. It was an astounding $330,000! I saw it demoed at NAB in 91 or 92. My guess is that they didn't sell a whole lot of them.
- TRENT310, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hey, the Betamovie's lens is problably better than the handheld Sanyo anyway. I still use shoulder mount video cameras for this purpose - they are much easier to stabilize than a tiny handheld thing. Plus if you use it out on the streets people think you work for a TV station :P
- wurzelgummage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1FUJI DS-1P - 1988. The DS-1P was the world's first fully digital camera to be marketed and the first to record images on removable flash card media. It recorded images digitally on SRAM memory cards (SRAM - Static Access Random Memory), with built-in battery for maintaining the memory rather than on a floppy disk as used by still video cameras of that time. The card was developed jointly with Toshiba. 400K CCD. Fixed-focus 16mm f/5.6 (f/4 with flash) lens. Shutter 1/60 to 1/2000 second. Understanding Electronic Photography, John J. Larish, 1990, p44.
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Digitizers (i.e., digital cameras attached to a computer) have been around since the '80s and weren't even that outrageously priced. My favorite was the one that attached to the Amiga and had an automatically rotating color filter attachment to take color shots with the monochrome camera. They usually took a good amount of time to take a picture, though, and were mostly useful for scanning in static material.
- ggko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1zemkacz, look here,
http://digg.com/apple/iPod_Shuffle_now_world_s_smallest_MP3_player
and here,
http://digg.com/gadgets/2nd_Gen_iPod_Shuffle_vs_mobiBLU_Cube_mobiBlue_still_smallest_MP3_player
The dimensions of the two have been calculated many times over, the (new) Shuffle comes out smaller. Plus most if not all of them don't account for the fact that a good part of the Shuffle's thickness is the gap between the clip and player. - mementh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2the "smallest" mp3 player now is the shuffle...
- zemkacz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1lol u r wrong. the cube mp3 player in the pic is way smaller.
- stox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Big goof under "Portable Computers", the Osborne OCC-1 was introduced in 1981, not 1976 as stated on the article. A great machine for the money, at the time.
- emorphien, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't even think that's right, but nice try.
- ggko, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Not the first but (without doing any heavy research,) perhaps the first digital camera in the consumer price range. Most if not all that existed prior were priced in the thousands of dollars.
This page seems all over the map in terms of "first". - Rudrasksha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Sweet, even the first mouse had three buttons.
So why doesn my ibook only have one huge clunky button?? :(
……Well at least those they look like buttons…… - bartwol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No, no. You're missing the point. The change in form-factor allowed the marketable essence of these devices to move from what-they-did to how-they-look. They are no longer simply functions; they are styles. People now tell the world about themselves through the looks of these devices. The devices now take their place in our culture as "costume."
iPod. Do you love it? Yes you do. You're so cool.
I gotta go puke now. - Celeron, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3How can someone use those old ass mouses? They aren't even ergonomic. Looks painful to use. Prob. strained thousands of hands in those days.
- phlogiston99, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Extra brownie point for whoever can name the exact model of that Exilim camera...
- Reziarfg, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Props for reference to the most awesome ST movie ever.
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