Charlie Chaplin's cellphone mystery goes viral

Los Angeles - Charlie Chaplin is undoubtedly one of the greatest geniuses of all time comedy. But he was also a time traveler or tech visionary decades ahead of its time?

That is the question by a YouTube clip tempting to the attention of the big Friday in which a woman is put through part of 1928, the Chaplin film The Circus in demand, it seems to talk on a cell phone.

The video has been posted by an Irish filmmaker, the incongruity of the images that appeared more than 50 years ago mobile phones were even invented diverted.

The video shows a fat woman with hat, past a zebra and a holding device to the ear when talking. The producer of the film, professional video was posted assumed that the only explanation was that the woman, a time traveler who was in the sequence Chaplin for the benefit of future generations was inserted.

Others speculate that the device was a small radio was quickly reduced - the film was made long before the invention of the transistor radio. Some viewers also feel that the woman had a toothache and held an ice pack on the cheek.

Finally, we have to solve the wisdom of the crowd seemed to puzzle.

Technology bloggers among the hundreds of thousands of spectators video said that the unit probably a new type of hearing aid from Siemens was invented in 1924, the old stethoscope replaced with a carbon microphone in a membrane Electromagnetic that placed in the ear of the listener in vibration .

Details of the device are still in a section of the Siemens website, which tells the story of the company available.

As to why women talk into the camera seem to be the only answer is that it spoke for itself. Or maybe it was just a time traveler after all?