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+ | {{Quote|Doc reached in his pocket and pulled out a plastic card with a pair of eyeholes, and the words POCKET BINOCULARS printed beneath. It looked like some cheap, plastic toy, the kind of thing you'd find as a prize in a cereal box. The way Doc handled it, though, Marty suspected it was really a more compact, fully functional future model.|From ''[[Back to the Future Part II novelization|Back to the Future Part II]]'' by [[Craig Shaw Gardner]] (quote, page 19)}} |
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*''[[Back to the Future Part II]]'' |
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+ | *[https://backtothepredictions.com/binocular-card/ Binocular Card - Back to the Predictions] |
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Revision as of 19:45, 23 April 2020
- "Doc reached in his pocket and pulled out a plastic card with a pair of eyeholes, and the words POCKET BINOCULARS printed beneath. It looked like some cheap, plastic toy, the kind of thing you'd find as a prize in a cereal box. The way Doc handled it, though, Marty suspected it was really a more compact, fully functional future model."
- —From Back to the Future Part II by Craig Shaw Gardner (quote, page 19)
A binocular card was a rectangular pair of binoculars as small and as thin as a credit card, and also incorporated a camera to enable the user to take pictures of whoever or whatever was being viewed.
History
Dr. Emmett Brown used a binocular card in 2015 to watch and also take photographs of Marty McFly, Jr. and Griff Tannen at a distance — namely, from the end of the alleyway where the DeLorean time machine landed.
Actuality
- Digital cameras and camera-equipped smartphones of the approximate size and shape of the binocular card seen in Back to the Future Part II are near-ubiquitous items in 2015. The device Doc uses appears to have face recognition software, which is now a standard feature of many consumer digital cameras.
Appearances
- Back to the Future Part II
- Back to the Future Part II novelization (First identified as 'binocular card')