Sony Mavica Digital Camera Line (1997-1998) Toys Hess introduced increasingly sophisticated features

Hess introduced increasingly sophisticated features like removable auxiliary vehicles

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which was prone to instantly snapping and tangling into a giant "bird's nest" if the machine stopped too quickly

was a revolutionary machine that completely changed how LaserDisc players were designed and built

out of a hilariously mistaken fear that the toys were secret recording devices eavesdropping on classified government conversations

Sony Mavica Digital Camera Line (1997-1998) Toys Hess introduced increasingly sophisticated featuresSony Mavica MVC FD5 First Still Camera to Save Media on a Floppy Disk The Sony Digital Mavica MVC FD5, released in late 1997, was a massive technological breakthrough that brought digital photography to the masses by solving a major headache: how to get photos onto a computer. While other early digital cameras required expensive, complicated cables and temperamental software, Sony simply built this camera around a standard 3. 5 inch floppy disk drive.