What is "vidphone"

Usage examples of "vidphone".

He turned his back to Hadley, then, concentrating on the vidphone, calling Leon Turpin, the chief of TD.

The man who talked to me on the vidphone from New York is the same man you had with you yesterday.

By noon, Becker had been on the vidphone to Cornell, Stanford, and the University of Chicago.

While he was following her instructions, she disconnected the vidphone on the night table, did something to its interior with a small pin, attached the wire to her tiny computer, and pulled another wire out of her purse, which she used to connect the computer to the phone.

Benares, and we know that any attempt to get him on the vidphone will be tapped, even if we manage to break through the security system.

He dressed quickly, put the gun in his pocket, rode the elevator down to the lobby, walked across the street, found a properly nondescript and unidentifiable vidphone booth, and called Magnussen at his home.

Finally he got up, went back outside, found a different vidphone booth, and called Magnussen again.

The vidphone booth was deserted at this time of the morning, as was the entire area.

Still, wherever he went, he was going to have to take some steps to hide his identity, and so he checked the commercial vidphone directory, wrote down the names of the nearest stores possessing those items he needed, and left the drugstore in search of them.

Out of habit he had flicked on the vidphone toggle and the caller was in.

Excusing himself, he hunted up the robot waiter, and asked that a vidphone be brought to his table.

Shutting the door behind the girl, he turned at once to his desk, and clicked the vidphone button connecting him with the outside.

Returning to the vidphone booth he called his UN selective service board.

While he was packing his possessions, ensconced for the last time in his beloved, worked-for conapt, the vidphone rang.

I patched my palmtop to the vidphone, got a pipe open to the Cube at Los Alamos, and tried to get some work done.