#27: High-Tech Advances
The 1990s were the era of the home video camera. Today, we have a built-in video camera on our smartphones. Back in the ‘90s, everyone who was anyone had one of these sleek and modern Panasonic camcorders. This 1990 ad makes us laugh now, but it was the height of technology back in the day.
A video camera that stabilizes your video as you move around? Sign us up! The hand fake hand with a spring as an arm is slightly disturbing but gets the message across. There’s no way any company would put that much text on an ad these days, but this was a new technology in 1990. People needed to know the details!