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• A bit of a Friday offtopic: the T001 family's Seiko TV Watch, introduced in 1982, is the world's first wrist
• A bit of a Friday offtopic: the T001 family's Seiko TV Watch, introduced in 1982, is the world's first wristwatch with a LCD TV screen, and is even listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the smallest television set.
• The very first model, the DXA001, was only sold in Tokyo and Osaka for 108,000 yen. To understand: back then, you could buy a good car for that kind of money, but with a run.
• The main feature of the design was a receiver that connected a cable to the clock. The idea was that the receiver itself should be in the pocket, and the cable that transmitted the image and sound passed through the handle and connected to the clock.
• The body of the clock was made of stainless steel measuring 40×49×10 millimetres. It looks like the most common digital clock of the era is angled, brittle, with buttons on the sides.
• And then when you click on it, there's a moving image on a tiny, 25x17 millimeter screen, blurred, black and white, with ten shades of gray instead of the usual color palette, but it's really television. In real time. On your wrist.
• Interestingly, the clock was featured in the 1983 James Bond film, which was a film version with a few details and a color image, although the original version was monochrome.
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• The very first model, the DXA001, was only sold in Tokyo and Osaka for 108,000 yen. To understand: back then, you could buy a good car for that kind of money, but with a run.
• The main feature of the design was a receiver that connected a cable to the clock. The idea was that the receiver itself should be in the pocket, and the cable that transmitted the image and sound passed through the handle and connected to the clock.
• The body of the clock was made of stainless steel measuring 40×49×10 millimetres. It looks like the most common digital clock of the era is angled, brittle, with buttons on the sides.
• And then when you click on it, there's a moving image on a tiny, 25x17 millimeter screen, blurred, black and white, with ten shades of gray instead of the usual color palette, but it's really television. In real time. On your wrist.
• Interestingly, the clock was featured in the 1983 James Bond film, which was a film version with a few details and a color image, although the original version was monochrome.
# Offtop #game
