IDK about first for everything, but sci-fi would certainly be the most comprehensive.
Comment on Google didn't do wearable tech before Meta, Star Trek did it before both of them.
tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
What year was the tablet? Samsung argued against Apple that they couldn’t own the design of the tablet itself because it had been done in 1968 in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Either way, nearly every piece of tech could probably be found first in sci-fi.
FARTYSHARTBLAST@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And if you want to get differently technical about it hearing aids are. And people with cochlear implants are cyborgs
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Linus Technologies had the (write-top)[www.computinghistory.org.uk/…/Linus-Write-Top/] in 1987, and the GRiDPad came out in 1989.
tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Dang, I actually would like a Write-Top, and this technology at that point is impressive to me:
Using an advanced symbol-recognition algorithm, the Linus (“of or about lines”) can convert your scrawls into perfect text at a rate of about 5 characters per second. It recognizes uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and symbols.
I’m sure modern tablets can do that even better but I haven’t used one I really like the feeling of while writing.
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Earlier than 68:
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