Tag: robocop
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When RoboCop parodied San Francisco’s most infamous assassination
In 1978 former San Francisco supervisor Dan White assassinated mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk. There’s a movie starring Sean Penn about it. What some may not know is the hyper violent comedy movie RoboCop from 1987 contains a sequence parodying this event. The movie technically takes place in Detroit, renamed Delta City (“The…
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White iPhone spotted in 1987 film RoboCop
In a previous post, I pointed out what appears to be a white iPhone 4 or 4S model in a 1993 Star Trek episode. Turns out the white iPhone design dates back even earlier. Here’s a frame of the 1987 film RoboCop, approximately 30 minutes in to the film. It’s described as a handheld mapping…
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Omni Consumer Products launches sandwich-purchasing app
16th and Mission’s The Sandwich Place is littered with signs for a new app for your phone that lets you order (and pay) online. The app is apparently from Omni Consumer Products, best known for Delta City and their robot police force. Before you can say “I’ll buy that for a dollar!” let me point…
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