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This day in history, May 7: Germany signs an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in France, ending its role in World War II
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May 7th, 2021
On May 7th, 1946, Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded ’Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo’, the company that would later become Sony. After its beginnings making tape recorders and transistor radios, it rapidly expanded into myriad industries. From its ‘My First Sony’ range to early cameraphones, virtual reality headsets to Digital Audio Tapes, Sony has always tried new things, with varying degrees of success. On the company’s 75th anniversary, we’ve put together a series of articles about our experiences with some of its more interesting and unusual products.
The Sony Ericsson K750i was a marvel in its day and, even now, sixteen years later, stands as a key step on the path to the era of smartphone photography. The candybar phone was one of the first to come with a proper camera, packing two whole megapixels of power inside its body. Sony, who was (and still is) master of the point-and-shoot, had managed to cram a modest point-and-shoot into a handset only slightly big
May 7th, 2021
On May 7th, 1946, Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded ’Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo’, the company that would later become Sony. After its beginnings making tape recorders and transistor radios, it rapidly expanded into myriad industries. From its ‘My First Sony’ range to early cameraphones, virtual reality headsets to Digital Audio Tapes, Sony has always tried new things, with varying degrees of success. On the company’s 75th anniversary, we’ve put together a series of articles about our experiences with some of its more interesting and unusual products.
Sony had launched several head-mounted displays before the idea of PlayStation VR had even existed. Project Morpheus, as it was called back then, would try to bring together OLED panels, lenses, bands and padding, and combine it with new PlayStation gaming experiences that would only be possible in VR.
By The Associated Press
Today is Friday, May 7, the 127th day of 2021. There are 238 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On May 7, 1945, Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Rheims, France, ending its role in World War II.
On this date:
In 1840, composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in Votkinsk, Russia.
In 1915, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the British liner RMS Lusitania off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans, out of the nearly 2,000 on board.
In 1928, the minimum voting age for British women was lowered from 30 to 21 the same age as men.
On May 7th, 1946, Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded ’Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo’, the company that would later become Sony. After its beginnings making tape recorders and transistor radios, it rapidly expanded into myriad industries. From its ‘My First Sony’ range to early cameraphones, virtual reality headsets to Digital Audio Tapes, Sony has always tried new things, with varying degrees of success. On the company’s 75th anniversary, we’ve put together a series of articles about our experiences with some of its more interesting and unusual products.
We all have that first cherished gadget, like a game console or a CD player. If you were lucky you got one pretty young, and one built for kids specifically. Today’s children generally end up with electronics from Leapfrog and VTech (or a purpose-built kid’s audio player like Yoto or Toniebox). But when I was young there wasn’t a lot of choice: For basic computing products you’d turn to VTech or Texas Instruments, and fo
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