The ‘wow’ factor of technology escapes me with this device.
I owned a very early wrist transistor, that’s right, transistor, radio, that received monophonic AM and FM stations, with the earpiece, yes, I said earpiece, as the FM antenna. It was powered by first-generation hearing aid batteries. I wore out the strap to where it broke, causing a catastrophic failure of the radio.
So, technology, no matter the ‘wow’, is not indestructible. How many of y’all won’t admit to dropping that many-dollared-wonderphone, on pavement, on the office floor, or down ‘that watery receptacle’?
I used to have one of those Timex pager watches. It was pretty cool!