13 amazing devices from the past, the existence of which few people remember (14 photos)

Let's look at examples of forgotten gadgets and multimedia devices from various periods of the development of civilization, when a person already knew how to amuse himself and help himself with various mechanisms and electronics.





Over the past 100 years, probably as many of the most different inventions, how many in the entire previous history of mankind. The rate of innovation is so fast that devices twenty years ago are not just not relevant - few people talk about them at all remembers. But some of them had the most interesting, albeit very narrow areas of application.

1. The original iPod prototype



2. I got to play the first ever Computer Space arcade game at the Long Island Retro Gaming Expo, 1970s





3. Mutoscopes in California, 1942



Mutoscopes are special machines located in public places for watching short moving movies.

4. One of the first flat screen TVs (only 10 cm thick) with the ability to record programs



One of the devices of the future, shown at the home improvement market in Chicago on June 21, 1961.

Source 5The prototype of Apple's first smartphone in 1983



It looked like a hybrid of a touchscreen computer and a phone.

6. Sending an email using an acoustic modem in a payphone, early 1980s



7. All in one: phone, radio and toilet paper holder



8. 1927 Plus Four Wristlet Wrist GPS Navigator



Route maps on small paper rolls were inserted into the clock and then scrolled by hand while driving.

9. Smell-O-Vision - a system that fills the halls movie theaters with certain smells associated with what is shown in film, USA, 1959



The device could inject 30 different scents into the audience armchairs. The system was used in three specially equipped cinemas in the United States on the film directed by Jack Cardiff "The Smell of Mystery", and for the first and last time. The audience did not like the hissing sound of the pitch substances, not everyone could feel them, smells are not always synchronized with the picture - in general, the reviews were bad, and the project covered himself.

10. My hotel room has a cool retro alarm clock.



11. WikiReader - exclusive device for reading articles on Wikipedia



Produced from 2009 to 2014.

12. Patented in 1886, a kerosene-powered slide viewer. Television from the 19th century!



13. iBook G3 - representative of the retro series of Apple laptops