Because of smartphones, pocket TVs were never a thing.

BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 76 points –

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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As most of the other comments point out, pocket TV did exist and you have exposed yourself as:

  1. Younger than the smartphone
  2. Never watched a 90's movie with a security guard in it

Both wrong

  1. 1st smartphone Galaxy Spica age 26

  2. These TV wouldn't fit in your jeans

You missed the point of my very unelaborate shower thought. I see how not being a thing could be understood as never existed. I meant a big thing like, you know, smartphones

Watch season 1 episode 8 of friends, Joey has a pocket tv to watch the football game at a funeral.

And that was mid 90s, 10 years before the hand tablets of today.

I'm unsure what you think Netflix or YouTube TV are, but they are indeed on my smart phone, which goes in my pocket.

Cargo shorts were in style at the time, so there's that