The future of wearable technology – October 31, 2014
Wareable sat down with Marty to discuss the future of wearable technology.
Marty Timeline
New book ‘The Smartphone’ features interview with Marty – July 30, 2014
Journalist and Technology Reporter, Elizabeth Wolke, begins her book, entitled “The Smartphone,” with a story about Marty — his famous 1973 cellphone unveiling.
Marty headlines at EXCITED learning festival in Dublin – May 31, 2014
Marty teamed up with Ireland’s Department of Education for the two-day “EXCITED, a Digital Learning Festival” in Dublin Castle.
Marty’s Red Carpet interview at Cinequest – March 4, 2014
NBC, in the Bay Area, caught up with Marty walking Cinequest’s Red Carpet. Marty was the recipient of the Maverick Innovator Award during Cinequest’s two-week film festival.
Game-changers: Marty and the new Mazda lineup – November 19, 2013
2013 marked the year when Mazda launched its biggest advertising campaign since ‘Zoom-Zoom’ became its tagline in 2000.
KPBS and Marty discuss the future of cell phone charging – October 14, 2013
Marty sat down with KPBS to discuss the future of wireless charging technology. Wireless charging is on the horizon but getting industry groups behind a universal standard is proving to be a challenge. Read more about the “tangle of incompatible chargers”
Martin Cooper wins coveted Marconi Prize – October 2, 2013
The Marconi Society awarded Marty the 2013 Marconi Prize for his “pioneering contributions to the handheld cellphone and its associated technology and commercialism.” The Marconi Society was founded in 1974, by Gioia Marconi Braga, in honor of her father who is often credited with inventing the radio.
With the presentation of the Prize in Bologna, Italy, on 10/1/2013, Marty joins a “small elite group of scientists who have been at the forefront of every advance in communications theory and technology since the latter half of the Twentieth Century.” Read more about how the invention of the handheld phone took shape.
Marty wins Telecom’s ‘Nobel’…The Marconi Prize – October 2013
Inside Bologna Magazine profiled Marty in their Autumn 2013 edition. Marty’s great accomplishment “was to make the telephone absolutely personal.” Read more about the historic moment when Marty opened up the world to personal communications between people “our of earshot, out of sight — or even out of the country!”
Honorary doctorate conferred on Marty by Hasselt University – September 27, 2013
An honorary doctorate degree was bestowed on Marty by the University of Hasselt in Belgium in September, 2013.
30 anniversary of the Dynatac 8000X – September 21, 2013
German public radio stations aired an interview with Marty about the 30th anniversary of the DynaTAC 8000X. Ten years after Marty conceived of the idea, the revolutionary handheld mobile phone received approval from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission on September 21, 1983. The phone became available to consumers in 1984. Listen to the interview on …
30 anniversary of the Dynatac 8000X – September 21, 2013 Read More »