Property News · September 18, 2016

Turn on the furniture: how technology is going back to the future


TVs on legs, radio cabinets, surround-sound chairs… Jonathan Margolis on the trend for technology as furnitureWhen electronics was young, it was a given that a device, be it a radio, a gramophone or one of the newest-fangled televisors – later known as televisions – was also a piece of furniture. When everything needed rows of hot, glowing glass valves and mighty transformers, miniaturisation and portability were not even an option for domestic use.There were military radios that lived in a soldier’s backpack and were powered by big 90-volt batteries, but the consumer had to wait for transistors to be invented in 1947 before portability was a possibility – albeit an expensive one. Even then it was 1955 before the first consumer transistor radio went on sale in the US. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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