Sunday, December 5, 2010

12 Conceptos "Retro" de Videoconferencia.

December 5, 2010.
12 Retro Video Phone Concepts
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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.


The 1972 videophone imagined in 1922.

In the 1950s, they envisioned shopping by TV.

Circa 1964 Giant Videophone from Toshiba.

1960s Hughes Products Videophone concept

The videophone as imagined by George du Maurier for Punch in 1878.

The Ericsson videophone, 1969, being used by the Swedish Prime Minister, who is speaking with Lennart Hyland.

Video telephony in 2000 as imagined in 1910.

Video phone used in the movie Metropolis, 1927.

Worlds first videophone system, created by Fascist Germany for the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

The videophone as imagined in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.

A 1963 Western Electric videophone concept.

A 1973 Ericsson Ericovox videophone concept.
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