Can You Imagine? Radio Sets May Soon Be Flounder-Flat

Radio Record, Volume XI, Issue 1, 10 July 1936, Page 36

Can You Imagine? Radio Sets May Soon Be Flounder-Flat

Now the Wellsian masterpiece, | "Things to Come" is released throughout the country it would be quite fashionable to reflect what form the 2036 A.D. radio set will take. ~ One prophet of New York dares to say that the bulky shape of to-day will be -superseded long before then, in fact in a year or two, by a model as flat as a flounder. Designers of the flat sets would preserve the large front cabinet needed for baffle purposes, but the aim would be to build a receiver that would be a little thicker than a framed picture so it might be hung in.the same way, as a decorative element on the. wall. _ This selfsame visionary goes so, far,as to.say .that the squat. midgets of the 1933-35 era will become as passe as the Model T Ford, and that "Flounder" models may be all the rage the year after next.