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In 1976, Texas Instruments announced a $19.95 LED watch, ... The digital watch had gone from the wrist of presidents and royalty to the supermarket checkout aisle. In 1977, ...
At this year’s Baselworld, Bulova released a re-edition of the Computron, a unique LED watch with an angled display that allowed for ease of reading while driving. One of the three variants is this ...
Founded in 1975, Armitron made digital watches during the heyday of the LED screen, updating to LCD technology and using Japanese-made quartz movements throughout the 1980s.
Yema, which produced LED watches in the 1970s, launches the watch as a Kickstarter on March 18 with three available buy-ins starting at €195 (approximately $215 USD). In other watch news, Pierre ...
Back in the 1970s when I first saw digital (LED) watches while on vacation in Bordeaux, France, I thought digital watches were a pretty neat idea. And I still do (thanks Douglas Adams).
Not until 1976, when Texas Instruments made plastic LED watches that sold for $19.95, did digital watches start appearing on the wrists of everyday people. But even by then, success was no sure thing.
And it didn’t bother James Bond, who showed off his own Hamilton Pulsar P2 2900 LED digital watch in the Roger Moore-era Live and Let Die (1973).
Oh, to be alive during the Computron's heyday. For the unfamiliar, in the free-spirited, forward-thinking 1970s, LED watches were blowing up. One the best-known models in the wake of the 1969 ...
This is why a relatively new approach—the savings-led digital transformation, which focuses on enabling businesses to invest in new tech without incurring technical debt while freeing up ...
Hamilton’s new PSR digital watch — a recreation of the original Pulsar Time Computer, the first digital watch ever sold — had the same battery life problems as modern smartwatches like the ...