A conceptual portable computer and communications system designed by Honeywell for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968.

[miriamrobern@dice.camp]

@Natasha_Jay the lightpen: an elegant peripheral for a more civilized age.

[crowbriarhexe@tech.lgbt]

@miriamrobern @Natasha_Jay She should be flying the shuttle but she’s too busy doomscrolling

[coreysnipes@hachyderm.io]

@crowbriarhexe real talk

[engineer27@techhub.social]

@Natasha_Jay rotary dial LOL

[bitchboss@marcella.masto.host]

@Natasha_Jay

First working mouse. 1968. Probably too ugly to add to the design.

[natasha_jay@tech.lgbt]

@bitchboss
I posted that before! Thanks for reminding me.

[colesstreetpothole@weatherishappening.network]

@Natasha_Jay
2001 remains one of my all-time favorite movies.

Oh, and I totally just stole this image for another usage but gave you credit so is it really stealing?

[davep@infosec.exchange]

@ColesStreetPothole @Natasha_Jay
So long as it's not straight up stealing like dgar does, I think it's ok.

[tony@toot.hoyle.me.uk]

@Natasha_Jay They imagined a flat screen but it still has the CRT curve, just nothing behind it..

[natasha_jay@tech.lgbt]

@davep
@ColesStreetPothole
This has definitely been around online since 2014 so it's pretty fair game I'd say? But I'll update my OP.

eg in 2015 https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/gallery/the-making-of-2001-a-space-odyssey-stanley-kubrick

[colesstreetpothole@weatherishappening.network]

@Natasha_Jay @davep I may take some of those for future use.

[jivens@beige.party]

@Natasha_Jay

I love this.

[khleedril@cyberplace.social]

@Natasha_Jay It was too far-fetched to believe that cathode ray tubes would ever get that slim, or that you could drive such a thing from batteries.

[whoosh@neuromatch.social]

@Natasha_Jay ...

still a bit larger than Maxwell Smart's shoephone