Dick tracy comic strip and technology
9 Mar If you're not up to date on your fictitious detective history, here's a little refresher: Dick Tracy made his debut in in a comic strip that still runs today. He's a tough-talking crime fighter who often uses technology to nab the bad guys. And in , he started using a state-of-the-art two-way wrist radio while.
11 Feb O.K., time's up. They're “Dick Tracy ” For decades now, it's been nearly impossible to write about communications technology you strap to your wrist without invoking the name of Chester Gould's comic-strip plainclothes cop, who first appeared in and got his first two-way wrist radio in
Description:Stumble Upon Advertisement Cartoon detective Dick Tracy has been calling on his wristwatch radio to get out of sticky situations since Back then, when a two-way communication was about as portable as a filing cabinet, it was pretty amazing stuff--and it had the comic strip's young fans mumbling into toy watches for years. These days, Tracy is still alive and well and battling the bad guys. But the idea of a cellular phone the size of a watch is no longer looking quite so futuristic.
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