History of significant breakthroughs that changed everyday life
In 2000, two Polish students started creating a smart speaker which sounded human
In 1948, the first stored-program computer the ‘Baby’ was invented
In 2002, the 'Ken Burns effect' was created
In the 1970s, Norwegian Tor Sornes invented the hotel key card
In 1974, the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú launched the world's first teletext service
In 1996, an electronic voting system in Brazil was used for the first time
Handmade robots were installed in DRC's capital city Kinshasa to direct traffic
In 1994 Japanese engineer Masahiro Hara designed a square of data, now known as a QR code
In 1946, one of the world’s first electronic computers was unveiled in the USA.
Scientists at Waseda University in Japan built the world's first humanoid robot in 1973
1966 saw the invention of Eliza, which is said to be the first chatbot
The 2009 attempt to give all Indian citizens a unique digital ID
The story of how a Viking inspired wireless technology.
In 1986 a computer virus was developed accidentally by two brothers in Pakistan
The world's first robot dog called Aibo, sold out in just 20 minutes in 1999
It took Karlheinz Brandenburg and his team more than a decade to perfect MP3 technology
In 1999, Japanese designer Shigetaka Kurita created a global phenomena - the first emoji
In 2005 two young graduates created one of the internet's most popular websites.
How the World Wide Web was created
The American inventor who made the first mobile phone and the first mobile phone call
The touchscreen smartphone changed mobile technology for ever.