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Because of smartphones, pocket TVs were never a thing. (lemmy.world)
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As a kid I imagined the future as being able to hold a TV in your pocket, and flying skateboards. For the latter I guess electric scooters will have to do

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I mean... They were a thing before smartphones.

I thought it was random as fuck when I worked at Walmart, I was asked to clean out the traps in the freezer (like a liquid channel for spills) and I found a pocket TV from the 90's stuffed in there, still in the packaging. This was only a few years ago; that thing had to have been in there for at least 2 decades.