You buy a fancy cellphone right now, and a cooler one will come out tomorrow and make yours obsolete. Can you remember which of these iconic merchandise appeared in the marketplace first? The first Polaroid camera or the first Kodak Instamatic? The first handheld calculator or the primary digital watch? The first battery-powered handheld calculator was the Sharp QT-8B, launched in 1969. Three years later, Hamilton unveiled the Pulsar -- the primary digital watch. The Sony Walkman or the Atari 2600? The Atari 2600, which came out in 1977, has two years on the Walkman. Macintosh iBook or Sony VAIO? The VAIO entered the lightweight-laptop computer market in 1996, about three years before the colorful iBook. PlayStation 2, Microsoft Xbox or Nintendo GameCube? The PS2 edged out its rivals by a few 12 months. Blu-Ray or HD-DVD players? HD-DVD players beat Blu-Ray to the market in 2006, however Blu-Ray has formally come out on high within the excessive-def disc wars.

Sony Reader or Amazon Kindle? The Kindle has gotten the most media attention (and gross sales) since its debut in 2007, but the Reader got here out a year earlier. Blackberry 6210 or Motorola Razr V3? DiskOnKey flash drive or Herz P1 Experience Iomega Zip drive? The 100-megabyte Zip storage system got here out in 1995