People living in a certain period of time are always interested to know what awaits them in the future and what it will be like.
Some go to fortune-tellers and make a deal on the cards, others just humbly waiting for the future to come by itself, while others do predictions and invent outlandish gizmos that they think will to be popular with future generations and contemporaries. We we invite you to simultaneously find yourself in the past and in the future and enjoy retrofuturistic photos dedicated to technological utopia.
Aesthetic 1950s pistol
Space couple from the attraction "Tomorrowland" in Disneyland, 1960
Doctor Who cyber controller on a smoke break, 1968
Coin-operated televisions in the waiting room at the Los Angeles bus station, 1969
Model of a futuristic nuclear supertrain, created for the series "Supertrain", which failed miserably, 1979
Robot vacuum cleaner from the past
Swimming pool 1969
Bicycle of the future, 1946
Microwave oven from the 60s
Flying platform VZ-1 Pawnee, developed by an American aviation company in 1955
1930s table fan
Personal gyrobike
This 14" TV from 2000 was sold only in Japan and had a built-in Sega Dreamcast console.
Hugo Gernsback showing off his television glasses in 1963 for Life magazine
SANAE IV is an active South African Antarctic research base built in 1997.