It ’s only been five or six eld since the smartwatch evolved into a machine that truly delivers what most of us expect from a smart wearable , including feature of speech like texting , call , fittingness - tracking , and viewing news qui vive and other telling . But it was a long , long road to get here .
Companies have been trying to smarten up watch for more than 40 years now . It started with a move to digital numeric displays , then was follow by an avalanche of confutative feature film , irregular design , and functionality that was passed off as smart , but in hindsight , was kind of dumb to seek and strap to your wrist joint . have ’s take a walking down memory lane to call back all the atrocious wearables that walk so the Apple Watch could fly .
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