This 1963 newspaper article has a photo of a mobile phone prototype

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That was two years before Star Trek hit the air, so I guess Motorola didn’t rip off the flip phone idea from them after all.

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It only took them 20 years to get it out of the lab and into the market.

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Pretty quick compared to how long it will take Tesla to make a humanoid robot

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Doesn’t Facebook have one already?

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For certain values of humanoid

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@frauenfelder was this meant to be 1879?

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@frauenfelder - typo! 1879

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So, the dawn of teledildonics?

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In the 1914 novel Tik-Tok of Oz, L. Frank Baum has his characters use what are essentially cellphones.

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if the housewife happens to be busy preparing a meal

Yep, definitely 1963.

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