Enslaved by the need for the big screen

In the 1970s, researchers at Bell Labs in the USA started an experiment with the concept of a cellular phone network. Meanwhile, Martin Cooper , an engineer at the Motorola Company in the USA was developing a fairy tale device which can fit into an ordinary pocket and act like a telephone.

Most of us might not know that the actual concept Cooper came up with was also on the Star Trek Series which was very popular in the late 1960s. Television viewers in the late 60s were fascinated with the notion of a hand-held two-way communication device as seen in the hands of Captain Kirk and Mr Spock- characters of the Star Trek Series .