An amazing prediction from 1953

When I first encountered a version of this image on the internet I assumed it was photoshopped.  But Snopes confirms that this was an actual blurb in the Boston Globe in 1953.

"...the person making these claims was the president of a phone company and was likely privy to latest developments in the field. For instance, while it wouldn't be until the 1960s for the first cordless phone to be invented, and the 1980s for true mobile phones to hit the market, the foundations for these products were being laid prior to 1953... Sullivan wasn't the first to envision a smartwatch. While this product wasn't in development in the 1950s (as far as we can tell), smartwatches had popped up a few times in fictional content. Detective Dick Tracy's two-way watch radio made its debut in 1946."

Addendum: this comic strip from the 1920s:

Via Laughing Squid -

A rather prescient comic strip by W.K. Haselden released in either a 1919 or 1923 issue of the Daily Mirror predicted the existence of “pocket telephones” and the inconvenient times in which they would ring... As it turns out, rumors of a “pocket phone” had been ringing around the world since 1906.

More at the link.  With a hat tip to reader Joe in Aurora.