Because “New” Is Forever When You Call It “Smart”
Product: Admiral Radio-Phonographs
Date: 1948
Right? Am I right? Smart never goes out of date. And when television comes to town, you’ll be ready. In the meantime, you’ve got a nice spot for that 16-volume encyclopedia bound in white leatherette. We all know you’ll always need that.
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Technorati Tags: vintage advertising, false promises, radio-phonograph, early television, old TV set
Imagine a Phone You Can Take Anywhere!
Product: Carry Phone
Date: 1967
You’re out on a deserted beach with your favorite girl, nobody around for miles, nothing but sand, sun and sea — and suddenly your phone rings!
Groovy, man. It’s 1967 and the Carry Phone is the latest in portable technology. Weighing “only” 10 pounds and priced at just $3,000, the Carry Phone was predicted to “become as popular as the transistor radio.”
The old science magazines from the 1950s and ’60s were pretty far out with some of their predictions, but this article from a November 1967 Science & Mechanics was right on the money.
Of course, the phone had to get a little smaller. And the price had to come down a bit — that $3,000 price tag in today’s dollars would be a hefty $19,288.14.
But making a phone call from an airplane? Or while walking down the street? Yeah dude, I can dig it.
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Technorati Tags: Carry Phone, early mobile phone, portable phone, technology predictions, Science & Mechanics
