I have a new favorite blog. Modern Mechanix combs through old science magazines to pick out some of the goofier retro visions of the future. (There are some seriously awesome ads, too.)
Behold the baby-sized gas mask, the real-life hair helmet, and the magic house that makes its own weather.
The site (motto: “Yesterday’s tomorrow, today”) is good for more than just a laugh, though. It also serves as a reminder to those of us writing about technology that the gear you fall in love with today could be the stuff you ridicule tomorrow.
“Yesterday’s Tomorrow, Today”
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Not exactly retro visions of the future, the first two anyway: I remember the baby gas-mask in South London during WW2…. and saw the hair-helmet worn during the 1960s in the same city: around the time of the false Beatle-wigs.
Another site dedicated to the ‘Retro-Future’ that you might be interested in:
http://davidszondy.com/future/futurepast.htm
It’s quite extensive and has a lot of great commentary.
Those were really interesting especially the magic house which is almost too good to be true. I just hope we will not get to a point where we have to use the gas mask, especially for babies.