In 30 years...

I am coming up on my 30th Birthday and i thought it would be interesting to review some of the inventions that have come along and a few other things that i find interesting!

In 1979:
1.) The "Sony Walkman" was invented - it retailed for $200!
2.) The first SNOWBOARD was invented in the U.S.A.
3.) The FIRST Personal Computer
4.) Mouse Traps
5.) Compact Disc
6.)Voice Mail
7.) OF COURSE ME!!!

In 1980:
1.) Fax machines
2.) Domestic Cam Corders
3.) PAC-MAN arcade game
4.) Hapatitis B vaccine
5.) The Sinclair ZX80

In 1981
1.) Osborne 1 - the first Lap Top Computer
2.) Scanning Tunneling Microscope ( STM)
3.) Blood pressure measuring device

In 1982
1.) CD Player
2.) Human Insulin
3.) Articial Heart
4.) Computer Floppy Disks and Drives
5.)Cartilage regeneration

In 1983:
1.) Apple Lisa Computer
2.) Cabbage Patch Kids
3.) Soft Bifocal contact lense
4.) Sony Camcorder
5.) Virtual Reality
6.) Internet- the first TCP/IP network

In 1984:
1.) Motorola DynaTAC 8000X - The first "brick" cell phone. Weighed 2 lbs. and cost $3995
2.)Apple McIntosh
3.) CD-ROM
4.) Litohotripsy - treatment of kidney stones using shock waves

In 1985:
1.) Windows Program invented by Microsoft
2.) DNA fingerprinting
3.) "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and other Strangeness" Video Game
4.) Rubber Bands
5.) The Skatebike
6.) Synthetic Skin
7.) Nintendo

In 1986:
1.) Stainless Steel
2.) Wrist Watch
3.) Digital Camera
4.) FOX broadcasting launched
5.) TESLAR Technology

In 1987:
1.) First commercial Stain Removers
2.) Disposable contact lenses
3.) 3-D Video Games
4.) Digital Cell Phones
5.) DLP TV
6.) Digital Light processing

In 1988:
1.) Dopplar Radar
2.) Prozac
3.) Indiglo Nightlight - was used on the Indiglo Watch
4.) RU-484 ( abortion pill)

In 1989:
1.) HDtv
2.) World Wide Web
3.) The "SpreadSheet"
4.) The wheeled Carry On Bag
5.) Artificial Intelligence

In 1990:
1.) K'Nex construction toy
2.) THE SIMPSONS
3.) GPS Satellite Navigation

In 1991:
1.) Air Bag for cars
2.) Genetically Produced Blue Rose
3.) Web Browsers
4.) Bit Torrent Search Engines

In 1992:
1.) Play Station prototype
2.) Download ability
3.) Silent Storm Snowmaker - artificial snow machine
4.) Gluten Free Aroma Dough - Modeling Compound

In 1993:
1.) Spongebob
2.) Foam Fingers
3.) Pentium Processor
4.) The big yellow SMILEY FACE
5.) Dyson Bagless vacuum

In 1994:
1.) HIV Protease Inhibitor
2.) "Surfing the Internet"
3.)Genetically engineered Tomatoes
4.) NETSCAPE navigator launched

In 1995:
1.) Java Computer Language
2.) DVD's
3.)Beanie Babies
4.) Windows '95

In 1996:
1.) Ebay
2.) Ask Jeeves
3.) Cloning of Dolly ( The sheep)
4.) American Pathfinder Missile

In 1997:
1.) Outbreak of the Bird Flu
2.) Internet Explorer Version 4
3.) Mp3 Player
4.)Gas Powered Fuel Cell

In 1998:
1.) Viagra
2.) Disposable Bibs
3.) Self Heating Meals
4.) Hobbs Cat Flap - applies pesticide to a cat as it goes outside to repel fleas and ticks

In 1999:
1.) Tekno Bubbles
2.) SenseCam
3.) BlueTooth
4.) Myspace
5.) Napster

In 2000:
1.) Y2K Bug
2.) Worlds Largest Ferris Wheel In London
3.) European Airbus

In 2001:
1.) Wikipedia Goes online
2.) Windows XP
3.) Apple iPod released
4.) World first birth Control Patch - Ortho Evra

In 2002:
1.) Water Found on Mars
2.) Braille Glove
3.) Virtual Keyboard
4.) Date Rape Drug Spotter

In 2003:
1.) Ice Bike
2.) Infared Fever Screening System
3.) Toyotas Hybrid Car
4.) Optical Camoflauge System
5.) Non-Contact Jacket - elcectro shocks attackers keeping the wearer safe

In 2004:
1.) Translucent Concrete
2.) SonoPrep - delivers medication with out injection through sound waves
3.) Adidas 1 - the thinking shoe
4.) Ka-on - plants that play music

In 2005:
1.) YouTube
2.) Tweel - wagon wheel inspired wheel made of aluminum and polyurethane
3.) iBotic robotic wheel chair and military devices
4.) iCat

In 2006:
1.) Loc8tor - finds lost items within an inch of where they are
2.) Hug Shirt
3.) Floating Bed
4.) Robotic Body Doubles
5.) "Bike Car"

In 2007:
1.) Electro Needle Biomedical Sensor
2.) The iPhone
3.) The Diesel Exhaust Purification System
4.) iHearSafe earbuds
5.) StayAlive - life jacket with pockets that hold life saving tools

In 2008:
1.) iPod TOuch
2.) Macbook
3.) Under the stairs storage - http://www.docstoc.com/docs/433882/Cool-Inventions-of-2008
4.) Apple TamPlayer
5.) Nokia Mobile Smelephone

In 2009:( predictions according to various websights)
1.) Samsung 3-D TV
2.) Apple TV
3.) A bigger version of the iPod touch
4.) More Smart cars run by electricity, solar power, and alternative fuels

Its amazing to see how far technology has come. Now if we as a human race could evolve and make life better together as a world... we might not be so bad off.