• al177
    14·
    2 years ago

    Today $300 or less can buy a watch that runs UNIX, can emulate any machine in 1981 in realtime, and stream data from the ARPAInternet over a wireless connection orders of magnitude faster than any leased line.

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
      171·
      2 years ago

      Sounds like a €30 smartwatch I’ve seen some 7 years ago. Yep, it costed that back then. It ran Android 4.4 and even the battery was user replaceable.
      I think it was called QW09.

      Unfortunately, I was 10 at the time, and €30 sounded like a lot to me, so I didn’t buy it :(

      Edit: Found some pics

        • janus2
          6·
          2 years ago

          rectangular smartwatch master race
          i don’t care that watches used to be round because of a rotary mechanism. i want a SCREEN on my wrist and screens are square for a reason!

          • jcg@halubilo.social
            2·
            2 years ago

            Tell me about it. They rather hamfistedly tried to fit a rectangular design language into a circular screen and it never quite works right.

            • perennial
              1·
              2 years ago

              To be fair, Apple seems to have done a good job at fitting a circular design language into a square watch…

  • mounderfod
    8·
    2 years ago

    I wonder if it would be possible to recreate something like this for real, with cartridges for each software/tool (like a gameboy or similar?), excluding the comically tiny keyboard probably :P

    • larsbrinkhoffOP
      12·
      2 years ago

      The size of that floppy does seem a decent match to a microSD card.

      • mounderfod
        4·
        2 years ago

        I’m really tempted to buy some RPi pico stuff or smth and see if i can make something similar

          • al177English
            2·
            2 years ago

            PineTime’s CPU isn’t that grunty - 64MHz Cortex-M4F.

          • mounderfodEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            The concern would be giving it a microsd slot to work with, which the Pico doesn’t have either but it’s probably easier to attach one to that than the pine time, but yeah size would probably be an issue there

  • kbity@kbin.social
    5·
    2 years ago

    Every time I think about smartwatches, I just think about how much I miss Pebble. I loved my Steel and Time Steel, and was bummed that the company failed before the Time Steel 2 happened.

    • janus2
      2·
      2 years ago

      RIP Pebble. I went through three of them that all ate it to their failing LCD. :(

    • TheLazurus@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      god, i loved my pebble back in the day. Had an OG and picked up a Time a couple years ago to try Rebble. It’s nice but it’s just not the same anymore…

  • mrkite@programming.devEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Just seeing the Byte logo makes me want to open up that magazine and see which basic listings I can type in.

    • janus2
      1·
      2 years ago

      you’d have to use a needle to hit the keys lol

  • mochi@kbin.social
    4·
    2 years ago

    What I want is a watch that looks just like old fashioned analog watches, does all of the fitness tracking you get from a modern Fitbit, and transmits it to my phone. I don’t want a square watch or a digital display. I want classic beauty with tech under the hood.

    • lackthought
      2·
      2 years ago

      I tried using an analog style watch face on my Apple Watch, but the rectangular digital screen + the need to charge it every single day just wasn’t all that great

      I traded it back in and reverted back to my Citizen Eco Drive (which is solar powered so I never have to worry about charging it) and is visible easily in sunlight

      • mochi@kbin.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        Yeah? I kind of figure that’s how it’d be for me. I like the idea of how the Apple Watch integrates with iPhone, but I don’t like the way it looks.