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No, your eyes do not deceive you. That’s a retro-futuristic design for a breastfeeding robot from 1960s Japan.
Source: darkroastedblend.com
No, your eyes do not deceive you. That’s a retro-futuristic design for a breastfeeding robot from 1960s Japan.
Source: darkroastedblend.com
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From the often hilariously wrong series "In The Year 2000" by Jean-Marc Côté and other artists. These are from a series of cards included in cigarette and cigar boxes in the early 20th century.
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Life On Other Planets
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The science fiction magazine Fantastic Adventures shows us a glimpse of life on other planets from their 1939-1940 issues. While the alien designs are quite strange, they are meant to illustrate the different conditions on each planet, like gravity and atmosphere. All the planets besides Earth are included, even Pluto, plus Io, one of Jupiter’s moons.
Awesome photoset of Frank R. Paul's work. One thing I noticed? All the aliens are very happy to greet visitors. A very optimistic view of the future.
Once upon a time, the videophone was a futuristic technology on par with flying cars. It symbolized futuristic communication. Sadly, the reality of FaceTime and Skype didn't quite measure up to these retro futuristic concepts.
Interesting how long we've had the idea of videophones but cost was the major limiting factor. Now it's essentially free, just part of our regular data usage and the cost of a device that does far more than just video calling.
Weltraumstation (Space Station) (1949), unpublished watercolor study by Klaus Bürgle
Makes what space stations we have managed to launch into orbit seem downright puny, doesn't it?
Source: retro-futurismus.de
German retro-futurism by Klaus Bürgle from Das Neue Universum 73, 1956. Still waiting for this future…
Source: darkroastedblend.com
Promotional film by General Motors for the Futurama II ride at the 1964 World's Fair. Bizarrely optimistic in its utopian vision for the world... as long as you weren't in the way of progress, that is.
Source: Laughing Squid
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“Flying Carpet Car” Arthur Radebaugh was an industrial designer who spent most of his career working for the automotive industry. Between 1958 and 1962 he moonlit as a futurist illustrator writing and drawing the syndicated Sunday comic strip Closer Than We Think!
Source: belatednerd.com