Twenty key inventions of the last 25 years

Cellphones
Car phones were around in the 1970s, but it wasn't until 1983 that Motorola introduced the first widely available handheld cellphone, the DynaTAC 8000x.

Laptop computers
The 28-pound Compaq Portable - Compaq Computer's very first product - was the first portable IBM-compatible PC on the market.

BlackBerries
A Canadian pager company, Research In Motion, shortened attention spans around the world with the launch of the BlackBerry mobile e-mail device in 1999.

Debit cards
Ka-ching! Who needs cash when you've got a debit card? They took off after visa launched its check card in 1995.

Caller ID
Bill collectors are easy to ignore with this invention introduced by BellSouth in 1984 in Orlando.

DVDs
Americans traded all those hours rewinding video cassettes for hours with the introduction of digital video discs in 1995. Lithium rechargeable batteries How many AAs does it take to power a laptop? Almost no one knows, thanks to the durable rechargeable battery Sony brought to market in 1991.

iPods
Walking down the sidewalk hasn't been the same.since November 2001, when Apple introduced its iconic portable digital music player. read more.....

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