Landmark inventions that changed everyday life
Handmade robots were installed in DRC's capital city Kinshasa to direct traffic
In 1994 Japanese engineer Masahiro Hara designed a square of data, now known as a QR code
In 1946, one of the world’s first electronic computers was unveiled in the USA.
Scientists at Waseda University in Japan built the world's first humanoid robot in 1973
1966 saw the invention of Eliza, which is said to be the first chatbot
The 2009 attempt to give all Indian citizens a unique digital ID
The story of how a Viking inspired wireless technology.
In 1986 a computer virus was developed accidentally by two brothers in Pakistan
The world's first robot dog called Aibo, sold out in just 20 minutes in 1999
It took Karlheinz Brandenburg and his team more than a decade to perfect MP3 technology
In 1999, Japanese designer Shigetaka Kurita created a global phenomena - the first emoji
In 2005 two young graduates created one of the internet's most popular websites.
How the World Wide Web was created
The American inventor who made the first mobile phone and the first mobile phone call
The touchscreen smartphone changed mobile technology for ever.
