videophone

Singapore’s Supreme Court sentenced a man to death via Zoom video chat on Friday, according to a report from the Stra…

People living in the year 2020 have plenty of options for talking over video chat: Skype, FaceTime, Facebook Portal,…

Two videophones from the early 1970s that were produced by AT&T/Bell Labs and the now-defunct Western Electric will…

We’ve been imagining a future of ubiquitous videophones for over a century. And today it’s considered no big deal…

The ARPANET didn’t make its first host-to-host connection until 1969. But long before anyone was online,…

You can keep your flying cars and jetpacks. The real sign that we’re living in the future? Easy: real-time language…

Thanks to tech like Skype, the ability to both see and hear someone across thousands of miles is a mundane exercise…

As technologies evolve, so does the language we use to describe them. Radio used to be called wireless telephone.…

"By this month it should be possible for a New Yorker, a Chicagoan or a Washingtonian to communicate with someone…

From the 1950s until the 1970s Bell Labs spent over $500 million developing the videophone. But the technology…

Once upon a time, the videophone was a futuristic technology on par with flying cars. It symbolized futuristic…

The March 1931 issue of The Country Gentleman magazine included this advertisement for Timken bearings. With the…

In this most gloriously futuristic year of 2011 we somehow find ourselves awash in videophones. In a way, they snuck…

The 2002 Taschen book Future Perfect is kind of like a dead-tree Tumblr; no credits for illustrators, no dates, and…

Talking of Tomorrow is a short animated film that was produced for Bell Labs and released in either 1960 or 1962.…

In this ad from the March, 1957 issue of Scientific American we see John Q. Businessman making a “face to face”…

The December 4, 1932 San Antonio Light (San Antonio, TX) ran this illustration accompanying a piece titled, "Looking…

I’m often shocked at how accurate some 20th century predictions of online shopping were. However, these retail…

Brian Horrigan, co-author of the retrofuturism bible Yesterday's Tomorrows, pointed me to this amazing advertisement…

If you thought Skype was a new idea, you need to catch up on your old school sci-fi movies! Video phone concepts…