"If it wasn’t me, it would have been somebody else,” Martin Cooper, otherwise known as Marty, tells DCD. Except it wasn’t somebody else, it was Cooper who invented the first ever portable cell phone.

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the world’s first “smartphone,” the London Science Museum is placing the IBM Simon Personal Communicator on display in its new Information Age gallery, the first ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s supposedly made in the US, cheap, and coming this fall. I doubt it all. It’s supposedly made in the US, ...

Can I convince you to give up your current smartphone and mobile service for a device that I can’t show you a picture of, which is produced under circumstances experts call “impossible,” and that uses ...

First Phone in the World: The first phone in the world was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. This groundbreaking invention allowed human voice to travel through electrical signals for the ...

When people look back at the pre-smartphone era with their rose-tinted specs, Nokia tends to be the first name that jumps out at them (despite the fact that its handsets no longer make our list of the ...

From the first mobile phone to the Rubik's Cube, check out some of the most impactful inventions from the 1970s.