I've always found old issues of magazines like Popular Science fascinating. It's interesting to see how far (or how little) we've come in the years since their publication.

This is great collection of old Modern Mechanix issues with lots of hi-res scans of the articles. Be sure to check out the "Ahead of its time" section.
Modern Mechanix





WALKER CAN TUNE IN WITH RADIO IN CANE
So that a pedestrian may enjoy broadcast programs wherever he goes, a German, inventor, Alfred Mintus, has devised what he calls a “radio walking stick.” Outwardly it resembles an ordinary cane, but the interior contains a miniature receiver and batteries. The user has merely to plant the stick in the ground, adjust a pair of pocket ‘phones to his ears, and listen in, as illustrated in the photograph. It only remains now for the inventor to perfect the apparatus so the pedestrian need not interrupt his walk while listening in, a possibility foreseen by the inventor of the cane.