Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apple QuickTake 100 with colourful background. The first digital camera it is not. There were others before and, of course, there ...

The 1975 prototype of the first digital camera, invented by Steven Sasson for Kodak(Courtesy Steven Sasson) If you told a teenager today that snapping a photograph used to require buying film in ...

Eminent American inventor Thomas Edison said it best: ‘To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.’ Edison died in 1931 and the first digital camera didn’t appear for another 44 years.

Apple is celebrating its big 50th birthday, and to mark the occasion, I decided to check out its first-ever digital camera, the QuickTake 100 from 1994. The QuickTake sold for $749 at a time when ...

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The inventor of the first portable digital camera will speak at Union College on March 3 at 7 p.m. Steve Sasson, who graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will ...

Kodak invented the world's first portable, digital camera in the 1970s, but didn't release the technology for public sale until years later to avoid hits to the company's photographic-film business.