Fifty years ago the firstConsumer Electronics Showwas declare in New York City , giving local swot a sneak peep at all the electronic toys come in 1967 . Twenty days subsequently , Art Vuoloattended the ‘ summertime ’ version of the trade show with a giant camera on his shoulder , giving us a wonderful time capsule of what was drool - desirable 30 years ago .
Up until 1994 , CES actually happen twice a year . Once in Las Vegas in January — theCES Gizmodo knows best — and a second time in Chicago in June . The Summer edition , as it was acknowledge , is where all of this wonderful footage come from , and while all of the engineering looks incredibly dated , we ’ll be pronounce the same affair about this twelvemonth ’s CES 30 twelvemonth from now .
Thefour - part picture seriescovers everything from super - VHS cameras and tape recording machine , to flagitious CRT television sets , to candela picture players . Part four is doubtless our favorite as it not only features an incredibly chintzy electronic synth guitar from Casio , but also dreadfully creepy-crawly videos , and a peek at the hereafter of domicile communications : video telephone .
Surprisingly , videophones in reality pop up a couple of time in this TV series , but unsurprisingly people did n’t want to have to hunch over down in front of their landline headphone to chat with protagonist on a bantam cover . The engineering would take at least another 20 years or so , with the arrival of smartphones , for it to become as omnipresent as it is today .
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