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December 5, 2010. 12 Retro Video Phone Concepts The author of this post can be contacted at tips@gizmodo.com If you thought Skype was a new idea, you need to catch up on your old school sci-fi movies ! Video phone concepts have actually been popping up since the 1870s. Proof? This collection of forward looking photos, illustrations, and ads. |
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The 1972 videophone imagined in 1922. |
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In the 1950s, they envisioned shopping by TV. |
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Circa 1964 Giant Videophone from Toshiba. |
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1960s Hughes Products Videophone concept |
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The videophone as imagined by George du Maurier for Punch in 1878. |
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The Ericsson videophone, 1969, being used by the Swedish Prime Minister, who is speaking with Lennart Hyland. |
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Video telephony in 2000 as imagined in 1910. |
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Video phone used in the movie Metropolis, 1927. |
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Worlds first videophone system, created by Fascist Germany for the 1936 Berlin Olympics. |
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The videophone as imagined in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. |
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A 1963 Western Electric videophone concept. |
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A 1973 Ericsson Ericovox videophone concept. |
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