The November 23, 1956 Pasadena Star-News (Pasadena, CA) ran this picture of the “TV-Phone” of the future. If I’m not mistaken, that looks like Dick Clark on the screen.
The phone of the future will fit in the palm of the hand and enable a caller to hear and see the other party in color and 3-D. That’s the concept of Harold S. Osborne, retired chief engineer of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., as pictured and described in the September issue of Mechanix Illustrated Magazine. On the other side of the pocket watch-sized videophone are buttons which Osborne says the caller of tomorrow will push to talk to anyone anywhere on earth. The device may be carried in a pocket or purse, or worn as a locket, Osborne says.
See also:
Ristos (1979)
Wristwatch of the Future as Crimefighter (1979)
Picturephone as the perpetual technology of the future
Closer Than We Think! (1958-1963)
