It uses a line in for the video. It seems like a real desperation mover (or just showing off) to have the cable uncomfortably dangling from your wrist to the tuner. Still a cool idea for the time, though.
Interestingly, this is possible without anything else today. It works totally different today than it did at that time, but the end result is the same: video on your watch. I’m always amazed by how tech moves. As a kid, I wondered how nice it would be if I had a device on me that did everything and I could even turn the lights off with it. I’m actually able to do that today.
I highly agree. It’s as impressive as a proof of concept and achievement as it is functionally useless. It’s 100% Seiko flexing its capabilities at the time.
My focus here, however, is that I believe it’s the worst way to watch Interstellar.
When one of my good friends lost his mother, to help distract him, I enlarged this soft porn imagine of a woman in pirate gear showing what she’s got. I blew it up to poster size or something, and then I printed it on a regular printer (along with a picture of a penis at approximately the right size and angle). I think that gave me 15ish individual pictures? I mixed them up and mailed him one per day, saving the goods for last, with the fakeout penis second to last.
I think he had a good chuckle. It was still on his wall months later when I went to visit him.
https://www.ablogtowatch.com/no-longer-made-seiko-tv-watch-from-1982/
https://youtu.be/5tIAPwyVuXI
It uses a line in for the video. It seems like a real desperation mover (or just showing off) to have the cable uncomfortably dangling from your wrist to the tuner. Still a cool idea for the time, though.
Interestingly, this is possible without anything else today. It works totally different today than it did at that time, but the end result is the same: video on your watch. I’m always amazed by how tech moves. As a kid, I wondered how nice it would be if I had a device on me that did everything and I could even turn the lights off with it. I’m actually able to do that today.
Yeah, Dick Tracy had nothing on modern smart watches.
I highly agree. It’s as impressive as a proof of concept and achievement as it is functionally useless. It’s 100% Seiko flexing its capabilities at the time.
My focus here, however, is that I believe it’s the worst way to watch Interstellar.
I dunno, someone could figure out how to watch it by mail.
Are you reinventing Netflix, or are you suggesting someone might watch a movie through mailed pictures one frame at a time?
Mailed pictures. Individually. Worse than a tiny moving picture, and nowhere near as convenient as a book.
When one of my good friends lost his mother, to help distract him, I enlarged this soft porn imagine of a woman in pirate gear showing what she’s got. I blew it up to poster size or something, and then I printed it on a regular printer (along with a picture of a penis at approximately the right size and angle). I think that gave me 15ish individual pictures? I mixed them up and mailed him one per day, saving the goods for last, with the fakeout penis second to last.
I think he had a good chuckle. It was still on his wall months later when I went to visit him.
That feeling when you accidentally hit the seek bar:
“Goddammit, Kevin! You just cost us decades!.”