By Audrey Cress Along St. Augustine’s Cordova Street, the scent of Schmagel’s Bagels behind me and a coffee shop ahead were interrupted by a familiar aroma from freshly planted landscaping – the smell of dirt. Just like the strong smell of SPF 50 brings me…
I am a child of Martin Cooper. If the name doesn’t ring a bell (pun very intended), Cooper was the inventor of the first commercially available cell phone, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x. The DynaTAC weighed in at nearly two pounds, making it a stretch to actually call the phone mobile. Even Cooper said “the battery lifetime was 20 minutes, but that wasn’t really a big problem because you couldn’t hold the phone up for that long.”