Tech & Science · 2007
The Year the Smartphone Era Was Born
In 2007, consumer technology shifted forever with revolutionary mobile hardware and digital publishing tools. Meanwhile, robotic explorers pushed deeper into space as scientists unlocked new frontiers in stem cell research.
- January 9, 2007 | Mobile Hardware
Apple Unveils the Original iPhone
Steve Jobs introduces a multi-touch smartphone combining an iPod, a phone, and an internet communicator into a single revolutionary device.
- November 5, 2007 | Mobile Software
Google Announces Android
Google officially unveils Android and the Open Handset Alliance, laying the groundwork for an open-source mobile operating system.
- November 19, 2007 | Consumer Tech
Amazon Launches the First Kindle
Amazon releases its standalone e-reader with an electronic paper display, selling out completely in just five and a half hours.
- November 20, 2007 | Biotechnology
Human iPS Stem Cell Breakthrough
Researchers reprogram human adult skin cells into pluripotent stem cells, creating a landmark pathway for ethical regenerative medicine.
- October 24, 2007 | Space Exploration
China Launches Chang'e 1
China successfully launches its first lunar orbiter, entering lunar orbit to create detailed three-dimensional maps of the moon.
- September 27, 2007 | Spaceflight
NASA Launches the Dawn Spacecraft
NASA sends the Dawn mission into deep space to study the protoplanet Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres in the main asteroid belt.
- August 4, 2007 | Planetary Science
NASA Launches Phoenix Mars Lander
A robotic lander embarks toward the Martian north pole to search for environments suitable for microbial life and analyze subsurface ice.
- 2007 | Astrophysics
Discovery of Fast Radio Bursts
Astrophysicists discover the Lorimer Burst, identifying high-energy millisecond-duration radio signals originating from distant extragalactic space.
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