This is a current top of the line "data" watch from Casio. It has room for 50 contacts, with 63 characters each. Astounding.
So, I was in the store the other day, and I noticed that all of the digital watches were nearly identical to the digital watches that were in the store when I was a kid! There’s nearly no change! Despite advances of inexpensive color screens, and small cameras, and all those other things on cellphones, watches still have segmented, black and white LCD screens, little buttons on the side, and a beeper. Seriously, it’s 2010!
But, while researching this dearth of watches which fail to incorporate many of the advances in mobile tech made during the 21st century, I discovered the truth. Such watches do, in fact exist. But you won’t find them here. Want to guess where you’ll find them? Here’s a hint: what country manufactures every electronic device in existence? That’s right! China!
Quite a few unknown brands in China apparently build and sell…wait for it…cellphone watches. And they are exactly what you think they are. GSM, touch screens, voice recorders, FM radios, cameras…the future is now! And yet, no one in the US cares because no one wears watches anymore (because they were, fittingly enough, replaced by cellphones!) (And I suppose there’s the fact that you’d look really weird talking into a watch.)
THE FUTURE IS NOW
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