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Whats is that thing the blonde soldier is holding? Brightness meter? A nokia proto-smartphone?

by nix23 5y ago

GameOfFrowns 5y ago
Might just be a pen. If the object would have the width of a smartphone, the soldier wouldn't be able to wrap her ringfinger around like in the picture.
- nix23 5y ago
  Well the with is nearly like the length of her finger, and she has some color-table in her hand, maybe some infrared meter?
  - CRConrad 5y ago
    That's probably not the width of the object: It's a smartphone seen edge-on, so your "width" is actually the thickness. Well, mostly; the left half of what we see of it is probably (judging from the differing shades of black) a foreshortened view of the back of it, and the right part the edge. It has the rounded-rectangle look of an iPhone; did they have a single camera lens in the upper left (head-on) / right (from the user's side) corner with a silver-ish border around it?
gerikson 5y ago
She's taking a picture with her phone... The caption implies that this is from 1993, but it's a much more recent crop of cadets on a visit to Vares later.
- nix23 5y ago
  Ha thanks for the clarification, but it's a bit too late i already started a article for Vice that time travelers exist ;)
- CRConrad 5y ago
  > The caption implies that this is from 1993, Not necessarily. Here it is: > Cadets view the sign on the Nordbat 2 school in Vareš and testify of the city's appreciation of the Swedish UN Federation's efforts in autumn 1993. (Johan Nordén/Försvarsmakten) That must be intended to say the appreciated efforts took place in autumn 1993. But yeah, somewhat ambiguous. > but it's a much more recent crop of cadets on a visit to Vares later. Kind of a pilgrimage? If the pic was relatively recent at the time of that blog post (September 2017), many (most?) of those cadets probably hadn't even been born in 1993.

4 ms·

Whats is that thing the blonde soldier is holding? Brightness meter? A nokia proto-smartphone?

by nix23 5y ago

Whats is that thing the blonde soldier is holding? Brightness meter? A nokia proto-smartphone?

GameOfFrowns 5y ago
Might just be a pen. If the object would have the width of a smartphone, the soldier wouldn't be able to wrap her ringfinger around like in the picture.
- nix23 5y ago
  Well the with is nearly like the length of her finger, and she has some color-table in her hand, maybe some infrared meter?
  - CRConrad 5y ago
    That's probably not the width of the object: It's a smartphone seen edge-on, so your "width" is actually the thickness. Well, mostly; the left half of what we see of it is probably (judging from the differing shades of black) a foreshortened view of the back of it, and the right part the edge. It has the rounded-rectangle look of an iPhone; did they have a single camera lens in the upper left (head-on) / right (from the user's side) corner with a silver-ish border around it?
gerikson 5y ago
She's taking a picture with her phone... The caption implies that this is from 1993, but it's a much more recent crop of cadets on a visit to Vares later.
- nix23 5y ago
  Ha thanks for the clarification, but it's a bit too late i already started a article for Vice that time travelers exist ;)
- CRConrad 5y ago
  > The caption implies that this is from 1993, Not necessarily. Here it is: > Cadets view the sign on the Nordbat 2 school in Vareš and testify of the city's appreciation of the Swedish UN Federation's efforts in autumn 1993. (Johan Nordén/Försvarsmakten) That must be intended to say the appreciated efforts took place in autumn 1993. But yeah, somewhat ambiguous. > but it's a much more recent crop of cadets on a visit to Vares later. Kind of a pilgrimage? If the pic was relatively recent at the time of that blog post (September 2017), many (most?) of those cadets probably hadn't even been born in 1993.