Category Archives: Tech History

5G’s Historically Bizarre Rollout

Posted on 1 June 2020 by Stewart Wolpin

Technology rollouts are often messy. Multiple vendors propose competing (and often incompatible) variations in the hope of capturing the golden ticket to new market dominance. Entrenched interests campaign, lobby against or even legally threaten their eventual replacement. Technology misunderstanding or … Continue reading →

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Auto Tech Exhibits To Move To New LVCC West Hall For CES 2021

Posted on 24 February 2020 by Stewart Wolpin

While CES 2020 has entered the history books, CES 2021 promises to make history. That’s because next year’s CES will now include the new West Hall, the behemoth construction this year’s show attendees saw rising majestically in what had been the parking … Continue reading →

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‘The Current War’ Helps CTA Celebrate 20th Anniversary of Hall of Fame

Posted on 26 November 2019 by Stewart Wolpin

Perhaps the most consequential period in technology history, the first format war that determined how the world would be powered, is lovingly portrayed in the new film, The Current War. The film depicts the business, technological and personality battles that … Continue reading →

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dCS Launches HiRes Audio Campaign With 1st Legends Award

Posted on 17 October 2019 by Stewart Wolpin

Surrounded by his recording engineer peers, master mastering engineer and 11-time Grammy winner Bob Ludwig was presented the first dCS Legends award at an event Tuesday night during this week’s annual Audio Engineering Society confab in New York. Read the rest of … Continue reading →

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Flashback 1979: Sony’s Iconic Walkman Is Born

Posted on 1 July 2019 by Stewart Wolpin

Forty years ago today Sony introduced a portable cassette player that would forever change the way the world experienced music on-the-go. That player, of course, is the iconic Walkman. Read the rest of this history story here at Sound & … Continue reading →

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25 Years Ago Today: DirecTV Is Born

Posted on 17 June 2019 by Stewart Wolpin

On a sweltering Friday morning, June 17, 1994, Lemoyne Martin strode past a queue of around 150 other potential buyers and a phalanx of media at Cowboy Maloney’s 1-55 North store. He handed over nearly $1,000 to tuxedo-clad salesman, Ty … Continue reading →

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How the Consumer Technology Industry Was Almost Never Born

Posted on 3 April 2019 by Stewart Wolpin

What we now call the consumer technology industry was born November 30, 1920, when the first consumer electronics product, the two-piece RA-DA, the first commercially produced radio designed for the mass market, rolled off the Westinghouse assembly line in East … Continue reading →

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A/V In ’18: 5 Foundational Changes & 11 Newsmakers

Posted on 14 December 2018 by Stewart Wolpin

Traditionally, A/V product categories don’t tend to be very newsworthy outside of the latest updated versions of existing products and technologies. But 2018 unusually saw five major foundational changes in audio and video. See the rest of this 2019 recap … Continue reading →

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50 Years Ago, Doug Engelbart’s Mother of All Demos Changed Personal Computing Tech Forever

Posted on 9 December 2018 by Stewart Wolpin

² Imagine someone demonstrating a jet plane 15 years before Kitty Hawk. Imagine someone demonstrating a smartphone 15 years before the first cellular networks were even launched. Imagine someone demonstrating a controlled nuclear chain reaction 15 years before Einstein formulated … Continue reading →

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Flashback 1998: A Compressed History of the Digital Music Player

Posted on 26 October 2018 by Stewart Wolpin

A momentous occasion in the evolution of recorded music occurred 20 years ago when a California district court ruled to allow the sale of a curious new portable music player in the face of opposition from the Recording Industry Association … Continue reading →

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