00:01With new smartphones always on the horizon and endless fresh ways to listen to music and watch TV,
00:06what gadgets were in demand way back when?
00:09Let's go on a brief journey of popular tech through the decades.
00:18In the 50s, the golden age of television took viewers by storm for about $300 a set,
00:23and TV dinners were done faster with the introduction of the microwave for a whopping $1,200.
00:29Aspiring filmmakers in the 60s were digging their new Super 8 cameras, found for less than $30.
00:35Cassette recorders were hardly a drag either.
00:38The popular Norelco carrycorder was priced anywhere from $65 to $90 apiece.
00:44Video games became groovier than ever in the 1970s.
00:47The beloved Atari 2600 hit store shelves for about $200.
00:52Music also kept on staying alive in the form of the 8-track.
00:56These far-out stereo systems went for $150.
01:01In the 80s, consumers were moonwalking their way to the mall,
01:04grabbing Walkmans for $200 to play their cassette collections on the go.
01:09Personal computers began finding homes across the country.
01:12The Apple Macintosh was a gnarly smash hit for about $2,500.
01:17Pagers were fly enough in the 90s to have the whole world beeping for $8 a month.
01:22Palm Pilots had buyers tossing out their paper planners too.
01:26The Palm Pilot Personal went for almost $300.
01:29And could we ever forget our $18 Tamagotchi pets?
01:33As if!
01:34The new millennium made cell phones a social staple.
01:37If you didn't have the $600 Motorola Razr, you might as well have kept your beeper.
01:41We all traded in our paper maps for GPS in the 2000s,
01:45and DVR officially became a thing with TiVo for $300, plus $13 a month.
01:50In 2007, the iPhone changed our cellular lives,
01:54hopping onto the scene at $500 a pop.
01:56And nothing was ever the same again.
01:58Coinage, life well spent.
02:03Presented by GEICO.
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