The awards behind the awards: a throwback to the first Products of the Year

摘要

In honor of Electronic Products' 40th Product of the Year Awards, let's take a trip back in time to the beginning, January 1977, when Product of the Year first appeared in Electronic Products Magazine. It was certainly a different world nearly forty years ago. The Electronic Products writers were coming into work and setting up sheets of paper in their electric typewriters, an invention that was already more than 100 years old at the time. While that sounds pretty archaic, even then, significant advancements were being made in technology that pioneered the products that are used today.