picturephone
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
picture + phone; a trademark of the 1960s for the earliest such device.
Noun[edit]
picturephone (plural picturephones)
- videophone
- 1975, Rashid Bashshur, Patricia A. Armstrong, Zakhour I. Youssef, Telemedicine:
- The program has twelve picturephones that link Illinois State Psychiatric Institute (ISPI) with Illinois State Pediatric Institute (one city block away) […]
- 2013, A. Michael Noll, Highway of Dreams:
- So a long time ago, I was a true believer in picturephones as the logical extension of the telephone. Although the design I suggested for 2001 was clearly fiction, AT&T spent $500 million in designing and manufacturing its picturephone of the early 1970s.