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Re: Seiko TV watch

> From: 
> Apparently Seiko made a TV watch back in 1982.

Yes! I remember those! I priced one out while stationed in Germany.. about
$900DM or about $460USD at the time. If I remember correctly, this was a
B/W *CRT* on a watch that was nearly an inch thick. You had to wear a
battery pack on you belt just to operate the darn thing. I tried to demo it
in the store, but it was unable to pick up anything indoors. Still, it was
very impressive, and very expensive :)

> They're no longer in production, but just imagine
> its possibilities in a wearable system. An
> RCA connector alone would probably be thicker
> than the watch... of course a VGA-NTSC converter
> would be more than 10 times the volume of the
> watch...

Heh.. knowing Japan and their "we get all the cool technology, while
Americans dont" situation... every Japanese person with a decent salary
probably has one sitting on their shelf collecting dust by now :( BTW, it's
probably PAL.. so scratch using it with an NTSC device :(:(:(:(:(

> Patricia

Mike :)+<

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