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I love Retro Thursday. Having been a tech geek for most of my life AND having a tech geek for a father, we had some pretty bad-ass gear in the house growing up. Laserdiscs, Portable CD Players that weighed 20 pounds, yep the Millington house had the hook up. One gadget my dad brought home from Radio Shack was the Realistic Pocketvision 3. A 3? portable television which used natural light through a milky-white plastic panel to project a reversed television picture on to a mirror. Seriously.
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What can I say: Revolutionary! Released in 1985, the picture was black and white, and despite the strange milky light square and the mirror, the picture was pretty awesome from multiple angles. You changed channels via a radio dial type wheel, and a small metal antenna helped with reception. If you are in the dark, don?t worry, Realistic sold a snap-on light to keep you watching. Because the television used natural light to illuminate the picture 4 AAA batteries got you ten hours of viewing. Pretty economic for a portable television in 1985.
My favorite moment with the Pocketvision 3 was the time young Eric brought it to school with him. I gotta tell you, it felt pretty great to watch a static-y 20 seconds of The Price is Right in science class. In an age before cell phones, in-class computers, or wi-fi, it was a rare glimpse to the outside world in school. Yeah, I was a bit of a bad boy.
In a time of iPhones, Time Warner apps, and constant connectivity, perhaps some of my gadget obsession is because of devices like this: Freedom, portability and Bob Barker.
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