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It’s simply smaller * * also, an integrated touchscreen, inertial measurement sensors, a half dozen wireless protocols, two to four cameras, an array of microp
by krallja 6y ago
It’s simply smaller *
* also, an integrated touchscreen, inertial measurement sensors, a half dozen wireless protocols, two to four cameras, an array of microphones, speakers, LIDAR, OLED, a rechargeable battery....
- jfengel 6y agoAnd costs five orders of magnitude less to do five orders of magnitude more than in the 1970s.
- Aeronwen 6y agoAll made possible by shrinking technology available in 1978.
- rowanG077 6y ago> an integrated touchscreen Invented in 1965 [1]. > inertial measurement sensor Commercially available since 1949 [2]. > a half dozen wireless protocols This doesn't mean anything. Wireless data transmission was invented long before 1970. > two to four cameras, an array of microphones, speakers, LIDAR, OLED, a rechargeable battery All of these can be done precisely because there has been a reduction in size. None of this completely new tech. It's incremental reduction in size. [1] https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/journals/10.1049/el_19650200#:~:text=A%20novel%20input%2Foutput%20device%20for%20computer%20systems%20has%20wires,coupling%20between%20man%20and%20machine https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/journals/10.1049/.... [2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/294669755_The_history_of_the_accelerometer_1920s-1996_-_Prologue_and_Epilogue_2006 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/294669755_The_histo...