"If it wasn’t me, it would have been somebody else,” Martin Cooper, otherwise known as Marty, tells DCD. Except it wasn’t somebody else, it was Cooper who invented the first ever portable cell phone.

July 5, 2004 -- This week, just in time for the Fourth of July holiday weekend, New Jersey and Washington, D.C., joined the growing list of states and cities banning the use of handheld cell phones by ...