Talk:Radio hat
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Fabulous geek-chic from 1949! Please move to article space soon... AnonMoos (talk) 12:26, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
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My goal is to have this as a Did You Know article on April 1. Wikipedia:April Fool's Main Page/Did You Know
I will move it to article space before the end of March. Here is a first pass at the DYK hook
- ... that the Radio Hat, a 1949 precursor of the iPod, came in Canary Yellow, Flamingo, Lipstick Red (pictured), Tangerine and four other vibrant colors?
-- SWTPC6800 (talk) 15:09, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
- Not sure why it's the precursor specifically of the iPod (which is not usually a radio)... AnonMoos (talk) 22:47, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
![Radio Hat 1949](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Radio_Electronics_Cover_June_1949.jpg/640px-Radio_Electronics_Cover_June_1949.jpg)
- ... that the Radio Hat provided portable music 60 years ago and like today's iPod, came in vibrant colors: Canary Yellow, Flamingo, Lipstick Red (pictured), Tangerine and four others?
- ... that before Hope Lange's successful Death Wish, she wore this peculiar electric device, the Radio Hat (pictured)?