Jeffrey Combs

When TVs were first invented, nobody could afford one. Small towns all over the US installed large cabinets outside of every town hall with the biggest CRT screens they could afford in them, which was only about 9" at the time.

People would crowd around them to watch the news every night.

Sometimes they'd do movie nights where they would put up giant curved mirrors to make the picture much bigger, and they'd put up big loudspeakers for the audio. Only problem is that everything would be backwards, so they couldn't watch movies with subtitles.

Eventually TVs became cheap enough to get in the home, but this was pretty inexpensive entertainment for people, especially during the Great Depression. People would even try to earn a few $ by selling homemade treats during the movie nights.

The Crushinator

That's an old iphone from the 80s.

That's a premium piece of tech. A Simmons TCR signal isolator, with mechanical switches. Been decades since I saw one. The new SDRs are technically more efficient, but you could dial this baby in so much better than the autoisolators we work with now. Of course external signal gates are a thing so focusing isn't really an issue anymore, but damn do I miss spending half an hour hunting for that perfect shade of orange.

I miss the VXJunkies subreddit. Is there an equivalent here?

A Dalek with an office job.

That's the first costume/makeup pass for Brent Spiner.

Original Model Janet from the Beta version of The Good Place.

That's a console TV on top of the dresser

This is a vintage prototype for a two bay airfryer

That’s the oft-overlooked TRS-66 Micro Computer System. One of the first home computers to feature coloured blinky lights; prior to that, home computers were limited to using standard E26 bulbs.

R2/D2s father

Grandma keeps the Atari in the drawers.

This is a old filing cabinet with a screen for indexing.

A vintage oscilloscope in its original wrought iron casing. The drawers are for storing solder, probes, and electrolyte syringes.

It's a Comscanner from The Orville

I just love the awful tan fabric speaker cover. Couldn't go with a metal grate, which would've been more hi-tech?

It's a trash can from 1984.

The first prototype GameBoy, with drawers below the screen to hold the cartridges.

Early smartphone

This isn't one of those old Kodak cameras where the picture instantly printed out?

PipMan

It's the machine that goes "PING!" From the maternity ward scene in the Monty Python movie Meaning of Life.

It's the dolls house version of the HP 8920A RF Communications Test Set.

Pan-dimensional periscope.

Mailbox. I don't know the correct answer anyway...

1980s hotel minibar

It's the chest of drawers from a dolls' house. Someone's put a TV on it presumably so they can watch in bed.

This is one of the old analog dresser cabinets. We take the technology for granted now but it was revolutionary for its time. A camera from the top drawer is connected to the screen above, so that you can monitor your unmentionables and make sure no one is actively getting into your underwear.

Ye olde Spank Deposit.

They keep these in hospital rooms and some obscure roadsides for when people need to be walked through moving jizzsm from your body to a drawer for safe keeping and later consumption.

You're all wrong! Fools!

Everyone knows it's a Kirk era tricorder.

Before we had digital filesystems our ancestors had to use analog filesystems. This one has an analog "browser" called a CRT built into the top of the cabinet, so users could browse their files on the go. It may seem quaint now but it was all the rage back when it came out.

its one of those drawers you can loot in arc raiders

It's the tricorder before the one in TOS

The green cumulon