How does the phone have seen the future in 1981

User fulminic выложил to "Reddy" interesting album. According to the author of the post, in honor of the centennial of technology in 1981 in the Netherlands was held design competition "Phone of 2000».

Participants were 13 to 25 years, they were divided into three groups. The main prize in each of the three age categories was a trip to Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA. Among the thousands of works were selected the most interesting and published in the book "Hello, this is the future».

There was fulminic this book from his mother, who was working telephone operator. The instance was lost, so the result in the form of these images require considerable amount of effort searching. Here are just a few examples of works.





Most of the contestants believed that by 2000 we just move on to radio communications. How to know the modern man in the street, they do not make a mistake, cellular networks are widespread, even by that date phones are gone so far technically: a typical representative of 2000, the Nokia 3310. Among the works, there are several wire models.








Author of the concept above to suspect that the future will be built into the watch.








People even the recent past is often considered the highest achievement video. Today, some of us because of the lack of social skills prefer to communicate the text rather than see someone else's face, or to speak out, even though the channel width missing. Author of the concept above, anticipating it and add a button to turn off the video.



Purse with built-in bank cards, telephone and calculator. Today it is widely develops the ability to pay from your smartphone using NFC - suffice it to recall Apple Pay.




The main purpose of the concept of satellite communications Comp. STIFT-Phone - this is a simplification of communication for people with disabilities: it has subtitles in real time for the deaf, blind embossed buttons. According to the author it can be used to play checkers and chess, and make video calls. The phone has a stylus and a tape recorder.









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Why do I need a separate device, if it becomes so small that it can be implemented under the skin? The microphone will stick to the little finger, the speaker - in the thumb. Antenna is all hand, and the call user learns by vibration in the index finger. The most futuristic in this concept is the assumption of the existence of the year 2000, adequate speech recognition systems. Even after 15 years, they make a lot of mistakes impermissible, reminded of this automatic subtitles for any video on YouTube.












Modern smart phones have really become something like a Swiss knife, but in a figurative sense.









Source: geektimes.ru/post/244448/