Documentary- 80s greatest gadgets.

National Geographic Channel documentary series

• Tech became tangible 
• Fast rate 
• Decade full of greed only wanting better 
• Technological explosion
• 1982 compact disk
• First mass tech seen in home
• Better quality sound 
• Indestructible compared to vinyl 
• CDs were a mystery to how they work at the time
• Information embedded on disk with codes etched into metal between plastic 
• Iconic video game- Pac Man
• Symbol of gaming 
• First intro to a computer 
• Appeal to both men and women 
• Digital pixels at their best 
• Music went mobile 
• Boombox
• Large bass sounds
• Broadcast and make music with it
• Revolutionary tech inside home
• Computer 
• Close to magic 
• IBM look at personal computers and motherboards
• Compete with Apple
• Product to market in a year 
• Massive success
• Boom in a short few years
• Business standard 
• Affordable machines formed from this 
• Video game console 
• 1985 Nintendo 
• Development of computer programs
• Sony Walkman
• Compact 
• Listen privately outside of home 
• Made life more exciting 
• Became so common now not even considered 
• Sony first Japanese company to be known 
• Everyone wanted to own one
• Soundtrack and solo experience to life 
• Serious dangers of being immersed in own life outside of home
• MP3 is now child of Walkman 
• Personal stereo will never disappear 
• Micro processors being developed at time meant products were getting smaller 
• Becoming in-practical 
• Conversion of products seen today 
• Video recorder 
• Revolutionised how we watched and thought about TV
• No longer a slave to TV- could go out and watch later 
• New tech battles between formats 
• VHS vs Betamax
• VHS more affordable and more available
• Out selled 8 to 1 
• Removable of the cinema 
• By end of 80s 60 percent owned a recorder
• Synthesiser exploded in the 80s 
• Futuristic sounds 
• Electro pop sound dominated early 80s
• Originally too costly for mass production but 80s changed this and they became affordable 
• Available for all budgets for budding producers
• Musicians today use similar tech in dance/electronic genres 
• Mobile phone introduced 
• Could only call in 80s
• Phones needed a massive battery pack to work 
• 10 years to produce a commercial service 
• Similar to a brick
• $4000 for 30 mins of calls 
• Make and receive calls 
• Ground breaking but now would seem dumb
• Poor reception was still an issue
• If seen with one you would be seen as a yuppie
• People listening into life
• World changing gadgets exploded in the 80s and now available in one hand held device 
• What will now happen in another 30 years?