T10 Personal Technology: the road to the future 0852904

Personal Technology The road to the future

A Brief History

Mp3 Players got their start as the personal cassette-player (Walkman, Japan)

Continued on to become the personal compact disc player

Companies created the digital audio player (DAP, 1997)

1998: PJB-100 (Personal Jukebox) had 4.8 GB of space

Apple Computer invented the iPod © in 2001

Currently hundreds of companies produce mp3 players

Cellular Phones can be traced back to an idea that was hatched in 1915 to have a wireless telephone, but it did not work out

Phones that could be plugged into cars were hits in the 1980s and 1990s

The bulky cell phones of the early 1990s were replaced by the sleek models of today

Apple Inc. created the iPhone – an iPod and cell phone in one!

Music Today

Teenagers, young adults, and even grandparents are

busy in the world

mP3 players are a convenient, compact, and trendy way

to occupy the time taken to ride a bus, walk down the street,

or in between classes

Music is such a big influence in our society, fueled by

the media and its use of music, that to have a portable device

to play it only makes sense

As opposed to CD players, mP3s can usually hold 1000+ songs

Some can store videos, pictures, lyrics, and CD covers as well

The most popular brand is Apple Inc.’s iPod © which came out in 2001

Since then, it has undergone changes to become smaller in your hand, while holding more songs

But it was behind the curve when it came to technology; the iPod© was using a hard drive to store its files, while many other companies were using the flash drive (newer technology, holds more information)

The new shuffle and mini now use flash drives

The iPod’s © Success in the market iPod: 100 million, Zune: 2 million, Sony Walkman: 850, 000, Samsung YP-Z5: 1 million Number of mP3 players sold since 2001 (in millions)

Cell Phones of Today

Since the bulky cell phones of the 90s, companies of today have come a long way to ensure the widest range of phones are available

Types: flip, slide, keyboard capabilities, music storage, touch-screen, internet/MSN capabilities

Apple Inc. bridged the gap between cell phones and mP3 players when it came out with the iPhone ©

It has a 3G storage, is a widescreen iPod©, and the newest internet technologies

Everywhere you go, you see cell phones, whether they are a Blackberry©, using Bluetooth©, or a simple flip phone

They are so useful because they can call, receive calls almost anywhere, send text messages, snap pictures or take videos, play unique ringtones, be used in an emergency

Too Cool for School Number Of Teens and Young Adults who use Cell Phones (out of 100%) Ages Year

The Future

Will the reign of technology ever cease?

It is doubtful that the world will find a way to continue living without all its current technology, not because it cannot but because it will not

People accustomed to amount and convenience of technology in their lives

Companies will continue to improve technological features

Apple Inc. set to pair their products with concerns for the environment: going to remove toxic elements (I.e. arsenic, mercury) from their products by end of 2008