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Kahn invented the camera phone in June 1997. The first commercial camera phone was the J-SH04 made by Sharp Corporation and marketed by J-Phone (Vodafone) in Japan in November 2000. Philippe Kahn.

He thinks phones will evolve so that they will be “distributed on your body,” perhaps as sensors “measuring your health at all times.” Batteries could even be replaced by human energy.

Del Mar resident Marty Cooper, inventor of the cell phone, received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation during a White House ceremony on Jan. 3. Cooper was one of nine recipients of ...