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It is a time traveler that behind Mike Tyson or simply a camera of 90`s?

Time travel has always fascinated the public imagination: every time it appears some evidence which suggests that they might be actually, the human mind is unleashed. This is what is happening these days on the web, where an old movie of a 1995 Mike Tyson meeting brought out a new case of a possible 'traveling in time'. In one of the (grainy) footage of the meeting you can be seen in the crowd rushed to the hotel MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vega to attend the meeting between Mike Tyson and Peter McNeeley, a bystander lifting something that to some it seemed It is a smartphone.

At first sight, indeed, it seems to be the classic pose from shooting a video vertical and the white object that you see in the viewer's hands could fool the eye and appear very similar to a smartphone. The video of the meeting has been online for a long time, but in September of 2015 that is posted on YouTube a video that asks the question: "We are facing a time traveler?"


As noted by the commentator of the video, in 1995 there were no smartphones and the object that is seen in the second half does not look like a digital camera. The argument is easy to grip, but maybe is not accurate as it should. If it is true that smartphones were far from presenting itself on the market, it is less the assertion on digital cameras, which - on the contrary - at that time were in their infancy and were experimenting with shapes and ergonomics, trying a different tack from that of classic analog cameras. In the gallery below you can see some examples, including that of the legendary Apple Quicktake 100, dated 1994.

We consider that the stage is that of the Las Vegas 90s, which certainly turned the characters of the most extravagant, including those early-adopter technology able to spend 65,000 yen at the time to put in your pocket the first digital camera with LCD display (which would also explain the shooting mode used by the viewer) the Casio QV-10. The appearance of the object that you see in the crowd is compatible with that of the Casio camera, whose silver livery under the ring lights, and thanks to the low dynamic range of television images may well appear white, as seen in the video. Also similar argument for Logitech fotoman, who had the white livery series.



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