Friday, September 20, 2013

The Gadget We Miss: The Calculator Watch

The Gadget We Miss: The Calculator Watch

Sting isn’t usually thought of as a geek hero. But, if you look carefully at the cover of the Police single “Wrapped Around Your Finger”, you’ll see that he is proudly wearing a symbol of geekdom from the late 1970s and 1980s. Similarly, geek icon Marty McFly is seen to be wearing the same symbol in Back To The Future: a calculator watch. In an era before cell phones got small enough to carry, a calculator watch was a sure sign of someone who cared about the geeky stuff.

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Source: http://gizmodo.com/the-gadget-we-miss-the-calculator-watch-1344076812

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