Londoners and New Yorkers gawk at each other through a transatlantic lens

Not related to cell phones, just fabulous (and faithful reader, don't you dare call it just a webcam!): the Telectroscope.

"The Telectroscope – a Victorian-style freakish fairground attraction – enables you to peer through it from London, and see someone in New York.

Matt Shaer, in New York under the Brooklyn Bridge, holds a sign – "Hello from Brooklyn" – for his London colleague Brendan O'Neill, who was watching through the "Telectroscope" on the other side.

[via The Christian Science Monitor]

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