On Monday, Apple is expected to announce Apple Watch. 1972, the Hamilton Watch Company announced it Pulsar Time Computer, which is still considered the first digital clock. In the video you can see, and hear, how big the company's vision was for its futuremeasurements.
The "Hour of Computers" was the advertising campaign promoting the revolutionary for the data of the time, product. In a time when computers were still huge, the prospect of wearing something that could be mistaken for one computer on your wrist was a science fiction script.
No connection to today's smart clocks that have sensors to monitor your heartbeat or your activities, Pulsar could boast only a light sensor that could adjust the brightness of the LEDs to make the numbers visible, regardless of the lighting conditions.
"This model sold for $ 2.100, a price that was higher than the price of a new Ford Pinto at the time," said journalist Harry McCracken.
Pulsar also appeared on James Bond's 1973 in Live and Let Die.
But the prestige of the revolutionary watch did not last long. The technology companies of the time soon flooded the market with new products. THE Commodore International, the maker of the legendary Commodore 64 and Amiga computers, released the its own 1975 watch LED as reported by Wired.
