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HP made a smartwatch in 1977, and you can buy a prototype for $14,500
Long before we were debating the merits of Android Wear and the rumored iWatch, companies were experimenting with quartz technology, LEDs, and miniaturized circuits to create the ancestors of the modern wearable. HP — which made some of the most important calculators back when calculators were a big deal — pitched in with the HP-01, a busy hunk of metal that took the crown as the world's first calculator watch.
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It looks like a calculator watch (casio?) that I found when I was a kid. Those things look so ridiculous.
Yep, they look like the apple 2 for ants.