Mobile gadgets burst into life at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century. "I carry everything with me." Small telephones, cameras, players, netbooks, televisions … Then all this was gradually replaced by smartphones, replacing most of those things that a person would like to have with him at any time. Or even not smartphones, but “smart watches”.
But this article isn't about smartphones. But about the clock. Did you know that the first watch with a built-in TV went on sale before the mobile phone? Not? And it was so. And this happened in 1982, when the Seiko company, one of the leaders of "innovative watchmaking" at that time, released the DXA001 watch model on the market.
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Of course, today you can hardly surprise anyone like that, but in the eighties this looked like something absolutely fantastic. The watch was equipped with an LVD display with a diagonal of 1.25 inches (3.2 cm), measured 40x49x10 mm, weighed eighty grams and was made of stainless steel. The battery was used large (type SR920W) and was used only by the watch itself. There was also a built-in speaker (according to user reviews - very "noisy") and a headphone jack.
The TV receiver was "clip-on", with an external unit, it was powered by two AA batteries, alkaline) and weighed about one hundred and ninety grams. He knew how to catch up to eighty-three TV channels, as well as FM radio stations. The battery pack provided TV viewing for up to five hours straight. Of course, the watch itself was with an alarm clock and a stopwatch - a standard set. The DXA001 had a white backlight and the DXA002 blue.
The amount spent by the company to develop the "miracle watch" is worthy of special mention. According to the most conservative estimates, it is about one hundred million yen. The cost of the first model was one hundred eight thousand yen, the second, released a little later, ninety-eight thousand. And at first these watches were sold exclusively in Tokyo and Osaka.
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The high cost and rather low quality of the image and sound played a role - the watch "did not go" to customers. The portable unit, which had to be carried in a pocket and connecting wires, were also attributed to inconveniences … Wristwatches ceased to be wrist watches. And so it remained until the company (also from Japan, of course) NH Japan in 2004 presented its "watch with TV" VTV-101.
