Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Uncover the high-octane engineering marvels and forgotten historical secrets sealed inside the device you touch over 2,000 times a day: the smartphone. From a 1930s noodle grocery store that transformed into a tech juggernaut shipping 260 million devices a year, to the 94-year-old pioneer who engineered a 2-kilo wireless brick, Professor Hannah Fry takes you on an intense journey through 120 years of innovation. Discover how an invisible mesh of indium tin oxide allows a common pickle or a sausage to act as a touchscreen stylus, why a 1-hour brainstorming session birthed a digital camera sensor that a corporate giant buried until 2001, and how Steve Jobs capitalized on a massive 1970s oversight to alter the course of computing history forever.
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Uncover the high-octane engineering marvels and forgotten historical secrets sealed inside the device you touch over 2,000 times a day: the smartphone. From a 1930s noodle grocery store that transformed into a tech juggernaut shipping 260 million devices a year, to the 94-year-old pioneer who engineered a 2-kilo wireless brick, Professor Hannah Fry takes you on an intense journey through 120 years of innovation. Discover how an invisible mesh of indium tin oxide allows a common pickle or a sausage to act as a touchscreen stylus, why a 1-hour brainstorming session birthed a digital camera sensor that a corporate giant buried until 2001, and how Steve Jobs capitalized on a massive 1970s oversight to alter the course of computing history forever.
Licensed to Little Dot Studios.
Subscribe to WONDER to watch more documentaries: youtube.com/WonderDocs
Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/TheWonderChannel
WONDER is packed with binge worthy reality documentaries for hours of entertainment. Check out our hub of diverse and empowering stories which explore the extreme side of life!
