<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d51bb177-d1d4-4a7b-803c-810daec91a3d/1B426168-369A-419F-902E-94ABFD673E44/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://gajitz.com/original-gadgets-5-modern-history-making-high-tech-firsts/" href="http://gajitz.com/original-gadgets-5-modern-history-making-high-tech-firsts/" style="font-size: 11px;">gajitz.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gajitz.com/original-gadgets-5-modern-history-making-high-tech-firsts/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/gajitz.com/img/2A5457C3-2ADF-4F4F-BFE3-EC70DC33D916" alt="first portable laptop computer" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gajitz.com/original-gadgets-5-modern-history-making-high-tech-firsts/"><STRONG>The first portable computer</STRONG> was released in the early 1980s and cost surprisingly not much more than our high-end laptops do today (just under $2000).  Still, the <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_1">Osborne 1</A> had a screen only a few inches across, weighted dozens of pounds and of course had the processing power of a contemporary digital watch.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gajitz.com/original-gadgets-5-modern-history-making-high-tech-firsts/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/gajitz.com/img/FF392E1F-1FC3-4D17-8FEF-FF55E3CE6AB5" alt="first digital camera design" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gajitz.com/original-gadgets-5-modern-history-making-high-tech-firsts/"><STRONG>The first digital camera</STRONG> surprisingly dates back to a <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_camera">prototype design</A> from the mid-1970s, when Kodak engineer Steven Sasson developed a device essentially from scratch capable of capturing images using an analog-to-digital converter. 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