Blue Peter winner who designed a flat screen TV with the internet 50 years ago ... trends now

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It is only relatively recently that internet-enabled Smart TVs have overturned the traditional role of the television set.

But our living rooms may have looked very different had an 11-year-old boy's entry to a Blue Peter competition been taken seriously back in 1974.

Steven Bostock, who was featured on the BBC children's show fifty years ago, entered the contest with what appeared to be a flat-screen TV with internet connection.

Mr Bostock, who is from Pleasley in Derbyshire, admitted he wished he had patented his winning entry as he would have been a 'lot richer than I am now'.

He designed the flat television, complete with its own communication set-up, for the Blue Peter 2000 competition.