December 6, 2008
The pictured Cidco iPhone, one of the last gasps of a company that had made its name in Caller ID boxes and part of a class of information appliances called “screenphones” in the mid-’90s, may have predated Apple’s sleeker 3G version by a decade. But among the technoddities on display at Gizmodo Gallery last night, I was far more interested in some even older vintage tech than he 103″ Panasonic plasma TV since I will be seeing my fill of freakishly large televisions next month.
Among a 19th Century vintage portable typewriter, the first Sony Walkman, and the Bell Labs’ videophone used at the 1964 World’s Fair, there were also two Frog Design prototypes of an Apple tablet Mac and an Apple screenphone. You could almost hear all the iPhones packed in the room whispering, “Mommy?”
There’s a gallery of the gallery after the break.
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- What better ride to go back to the future?
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- DeLorean front view. Note the McFly sneakers
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- Oh good. The flux capacitor is working.
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- Outta sight. Makin’ things with Lite Brite
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- Too bad I didn’t have a wide-angle lens.
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- When you each need your own 42″ screen for Call of Duty…
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- The blacks are “none more black.”
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- As shown at the 1964 World’s Fair. Looks a bit like a DLP projector
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- The ideal writing device to tap out your steampunk novel
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- Even back then, Apple phones had large screens.
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- aka, the Apple IIc Modbook
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- “Hey, who sat on the Macintosh Portable?”
Tags: Apple screenphone, Apple tablet, gizmodo gallery, iPhone, vintage computers
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