Tomorrow's World - 1980s

Portable suitcase studio, 1980

Michael Rodd lays down some tracks on a suitcase-sized recording studio - an early 4-track recorder.

TW enlists the help of a "laboratory deck" to test a new weapon in the fight against the scourge of disc warp

Videotape was so 1970s - the 1980s was certain to be the decade of the video disc

Michael Rodd sang a scientific song, to demonstrate a nifty new 'sticky-tape microphone'. Come on everybody, you all know the words!

Videogames have come a long way in the last few decades

A compilation of items from 1980

Kieran Prendiville took on a snooker-playing robot

In a full episode from 13 May 1982, items included fake diamonds, artificial blood transfusions and new computer data encryption

A full episode from 14 October 1982, also containing items on water for marathon runners and very spoilt cows

A seasonal special brought 1982 to a close

This full episode from 3 March 1983 also contains items on book restoration and a useful boat-trailer

'Tomorrow's World' came of age and accordingly went back to the future

"Running shoes with a built-in brain" Wearable tech, 80s style

A full episode on the report into the future of manned space flight after the US Challenger disaster

"A science fiction dream"

Bobby George helps give us the 501 as Tomorrow's World showcases online gaming

The inventions and discoveries that transformed our world.. and the ones that didn't

From aeroplanes to zeppelins, this is an A to Z of getting from A to B

Explore the changing world about us, from the jungle to the polar ice caps