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The Almost Mythical 1984 Sinclair FM Radio Watch (retrothing.com)
38 points by Bluestein on Feb 20, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


"Sinclair Research - creators of the ZX Spectrum and Timex/Sinclair computers - unveiled a futuristic prototype FM watch in 1984. The three separate cases hold an LCD watch, piezoelectric speaker and FM tuner, along with a separate battery compartment in the clasp. The watch design was spearheaded by Sinclair product design manager Dagfinn Aksnes, who recalls that Clive Sinclair's casual design brief was, 'Design an FM Radio Watch as small as possible. The watch must have an integrated speaker and aerial. The aim is to design the first/smallest integrated FM Radio Watch in the world.' Sinclair's partner TIMEX was selected to manufacture the revolutionary watch."


I vaguely remember there was a TV watch around that time as well:

https://monochrome-watches.com/seiko-t001-mother-smart-watch...


I was going to when elementary school around 1984 and definitely remember a kid with a TV watch. He only brought it to school once or twice. At the time, we probably only got cbc tv ota (I remember a French and English CBC channel, and I think we got CTV out something).




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