20 Gadgets From The 1970s That Were AHEAD of Their Time!

Man I would give up everything I own today to go back to the 70s & 80s. Truly the best years of my life.

Pong wasn’t ahead of its time. It was exactly the right product at the right time.

The Sony TR-610 came out on the market back in 1958,not 1970. The very first transistor radios on the market were TI's TR1 from October 1954 sold under the name of Regency

The Betamax was actually sold as early as 1972, but it wasn't really mainstream until the mid-1970s. And then there were two different Beta players in the market at the same time ... one of which had longer play times than the first Betamax players. The longer-playing Betamaxes weren't compatible with the shorter-playing tapes, so this made the consumer confused as well as frustrated. VHS enabled longer-playing tapes in a much less disorienting fashion, and it paid off. It led to the "format wars" that went on to the late 1980s. By the end of the 1980s, it was quietly official that VHS had won the Format Wars.

Sony's Beta lost the race to VHS by JVC ONLY because Sony refused to play ball with the movie industry and VHS sold way more movies on their format. Were it not for that simple business decision, the superior Betamax would have beaten VHS.

I was ahead of my time in the 70s. I always kept next year's calendar on the wall.

This brought back so many great memories.

Wow!! I was in High School in the 1970s. Some hilarious stuff.

The best 70s kitchen gadget had to be the Oster Kitchen Center: a motorized base that operated a blender, mixing bowl, salad shooter, food processor, ice crusher, ice cream maker, pasta maker, meat grinder, juicer, and possibly more. Best part of the blender function is that any regular mouth Ball canning jar could replace the blender jug, even though you could buy special Oster brand jars that mimicked the typical blender jar shape. I have my grandmothers, and it is a BEAST when it comes to kitchen work. If you do a lot of food preservation, like canning pickles or freezing squash, using the salad shooter to slice everything into a 5 gallon bucket saves so much time. I originally tried to collect every part my grandma was missing, but gave up after a while. These and built in units seem like they should make a comeback, but the fact is, stuff is so shoddily made and no one wants to repair stuff, so they can't.

That citicar could be a predecessor to the Cybertruck 😂

Bread makers came out in the 80s, not the 70s.

I have a walkman The first time i saw that device i was enthralled! I had t have one. I thought it was the koolest thing. I still do Although tday i have music streaming off my smartphone i stll stimes use the walkman w my$2.99 headset Works just fine n i have a phone jack on my phone If u use earbuds ur catching some rad I enjoyed going back in time kool stuff thx f the nostalgia 😊🎉

If only our parents had listened to our grandparents warnings and predictions and resisted these technological “advances” far more strongly and robustly, we would not be in our current mess today

my all time favorite !! ... the electric knife that cuts cooked turkeys !!

I never got the Mattel Auto Racer handheld but, as a wee lad, I did play with the Football, Hockey, and Baseball versions that came out a bit later. Still have them and they all still work (I actually took care of my stuff back then. Still do.)...😁

I worked @ Motorola in Germany, and we build those phones. I started 1989, so the analogue Joan2B (8W Car-phone but also mobile pack) was redesigned to be digital, what increased both the Audio and the Reception quality. The 'Brick' switched also, but were obsolete when the StarTac came up. This was, when the sending power was reduced to 0.8W on handholdes.

The first 2-way videophone service was launched on March 1, 1936 – 78 years ago. It was provided in Germany by the national post office and connected Berlin with Leipzig. Some 100 miles (160 kilometers) of broadband coaxial cable were used to deliver video calls between the two cities. Later on, the service was opened to the public, and additional lines connecting other major cities were added.

the picture phone would be a ZOOM CALL today

In 1975-76 I was assigned to maintenance on one of the first computer aided instruction systems. Our digitizer camera took the capacity of a Data General 900, and still had such large pixels that very detailed pictures looked like fruit cocktail after being scanned. Our monitors were 3 dozen Sony Tritrons with special digital interface circuit boards that failed often. And we had a bank of 3/4" Sony video tape units. The moving head disc drives were the size of clothes dryers.

Loved the speak and spell as a kid.