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If you can't build a bigger screen, then sit closer to the set.  Way closer.

Teleyeglasses 1949Here we see Mr. Gernsback himself in 1963 modelling a mock-up of his "teleyeglasses", which he originally described in a 1936 issue of Short Wave Craft and hoped to see in the shops in time for Christmas 1970.  The teleyeglasses never did catch on, though-- probably because using them on public transport was about as convenient as being a blind man with a couple of spears stuck in his head.

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