videophone
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The tablets used by the Jupiter mission look startlingly like iPads; the videophones foretold Skype; and the design of the space helmets, spacesuits and space stations was remarkably prescient. — Gogo Lidz, Newsweek, "NASA and 'The Martian': It Was Written in the Stars," 20 Sep. 2015 In April 2013, the student was denied requests for food orders and called his parents through a videophone, the complaint says. — Mikaela Porter, Courant Community, "West Hartford To Offer Settlement In Lawsuit Alleging Excessive Force On Deaf Student," 16 Feb. 2018 The footage was shot on a videophone that's constantly hovering around the subject, and this juxtaposition of stasis and movement blurs the distinction between action and reflection. — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, "Arts / Film / On Video / Piety ‘The Serenity of Madness’ showcases the brilliance and wonder of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s art," 18 Sep. 2017 More than a decade before the smartphone was unveiled, Apple shared with the computing magazine Macworld a semi-outlandish design for a videophone-PDA that could exchange data. — Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, "What Apple Thought the iPhone Might Look Like in 1995," 13 June 2017 With the addition of a Logitech webcam (which is not included), the Revue can turn your television into a giant videophone. — Priya Ganapati, WIRED, "Logitech Box Brings Google TV to Living Rooms," 6 Oct. 2010 Before the iPhone, Apple envisioned a videophone-PDA that could exchange data called the ____________. — Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, "The Atlantic Daily: Sessions Speaks," 13 June 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'videophone.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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