Mastodawn

A conceptual portable computer and communications system designed by Honeywell for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968.

It has a lightpen (vs uninvented mouse) and a camera.

Sadly it didn't make it into the final cut of the movie!

Credit: Stanley Kubrick Archives. More here:
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/gallery/the-making-of-2001-a-space-odyssey-stanley-kubrick

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Tony Hoyle 1d ago

@Natasha_Jay They imagined a flat screen but it still has the CRT curve, just nothing behind it..

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WesDym

@tony Not flat, thin. Thin CRT was available by a decade earlier, but didn't catch on. It was a matter of bad timing more than anything else. Thin CRT came around the same time colour TV did, and the enormous investment in that pushed thin CRT aside. No one really cared. Neither was flat. Thin CRT just had offset guns with reflectors.