This makes me feel old. Youtube describes this as the "world's first mobile phone" when it's nothing of the kind. It's just a portable wireless receiver for listening to bog-standard medium wave broadcasts. God, it makes me tired having to explain this.
It reminds me of nothing so much as the parasols with built-in lightning rods that were all the rage in Paris in the 1770s as a result of Franklin's experiments. Except without the trailing earth wire.
Walking around in a storm with one of these up could have gotten the user more than a weather report.
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It reminds me of nothing so much as the parasols with built-in lightning rods that were all the rage in Paris in the 1770s as a result of Franklin's experiments. Except without the trailing earth wire.
Walking around in a storm with one of these up could have gotten the user more than a weather report.
cheers
eon
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