If you are anything like the average person, your cellphone might as well be attached to you. However, hard as it is to believe, there was a time when that was not the case because cellphones didn’t exist. Still, its uncanny how accurately their future was portrayed in media like Star Trek and, in a bizarre sort of way, Get Smart. Then, as they became available on the market, they grew up in media alongside reality. It started with a $4,000 brick-phone, and now when we’re basically back to Star Trek communicators, except they’re real.
This handy infographic from Product Development Technologies illustrates all that and fills in the spots in between, when phones weren’t hilariously huge or awesomely futuristic. If you have a phone, you owe it to yourself to know about it’s ancestors and keep their memory alive. Also, knowing what year Barbie got a cellphone might win you a few bucks in a trivia competition or something.
(via ReadWriteWeb)
Published: Aug 30, 2011 02:18 pm