Apple’s urban lifestyle product, is it’s really new ?
Is already 7 years ago, that the firts ipod come on the marked. I still remember, the first ipod presentation from steve jobs. The vision of apple; change the music industry in combination with the portable media players. We started with a 5GB Ipod and we are already can buy ipod’s around 160GB.
New features where implemented. First photos and after a while video. But is this ready something new ???. To watch video/tv on a portable device. I looked around in history and i found some amazing things.
In May 1963, K.C. Kirkbridge dreams in the magazine Mechanix Illustrated about small TVs, miniature tape recorders and even about electronic computers in the size of a book. What drives all these reveries: the technology of the future of course – space travel. The problem: very limited cargo capacity. In order to be able to carry lots of stuff along, things have to become smaller (and lighter). Therefore, RCA works on the development of the first pocket TV. Unfortunately all details are strictly confidential. Or imaginary … This incredible hand-held miniature television was never produced commercially, but sure was a sign of the things to come in the future!
In the year 1966, an obviously highly motivated engineer at Motorola dares to tackle the pocket TV idea. A few pieces of information come out: 1-1/8 inch screen diagonal, 29 transistors, operated by 4 batteries, energy consumption 1.5 Watt (about half of it to heat the cathode ray tube). Sadly enough the engineer passes away before he could even convince his employer of the market potential of his invention. A nicely illustrated article from the daily paper The Columbus Dispatch describes the background research and possible uses of the apparatus.
But the best part is coming.
If we take a look at the artical of the motorola Tiny Tim Tv, “the Columbus Dispatch 1966″,
we see something remarkable !!! Apple’s urban lifestyle product, “the white headphones”
Maybe it’s true that Apple have looked in history and found out, that is was the time to redesign a old idea. One things is sure. Apple did there homework well. A device in combination with a the Itunes application, to make the distribution of digitale music & video easier and legal was done to make the iPod a success.
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