Hugo Gernsback, who started the first science-fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, back in 1926, and without whom we wouldn’t be here today, was interviewed in the July 26, 1963, issue of LIFE magazine—where he modeled his “teleyeglasses” pocket-size portable TV set. He says he came up with the idea in 1936, but didn’t think the world was ready to embrace them until the ‘60s.

10 sci-fi oddities from Google’s new digital time machine | SCI FI Wire

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