A great quote by Craig Stecyk, 1975:

Not exactly your über cool high-flying drone, but I find remote-controlled cars like this fascinating. The real-time perspective, via the goggles, might be weird.

“Biotic video-game” or more thoroughly described in Design, engineering and utility of biotic games by Ingmar H. Riedel-Kruse , Alice M. Chung , Burak Dura , Andrea L. Hamilton and Byung C. Lee (2011):

Working on the “Curious Ritual” book project, I found that interview of Bruce Sterling very much in line with what we are exploring (with field observations as the one represented above):

This is the Nissan LEAF Start-Up Sounds, which is an electric car and, as such produce almost no noise when starting.

A curious project by Antonin Fourneau

“Hard time on planet Earth” is an American science fiction series that aired on CBS in 1989 and caught my attention at the time because of the weird floating robot that constantly moved around the main character. According to the Wikipedia:

Despite its flawed title, reading My Life as a Telecommuting Robot was intriguing enough. Some excerpts:

Dephone, by Maria Beltran (Master Media Design, HEAD-Genève):