The original smartwatches: Casio's history of wild wrist designs - The Verge
The Apple Watch has been out for over two months now, and other modern smartwatches well before that. But these are all things that you’ve been able to do for a surprisingly long time — well, if you maybe lived in Japan in the ‘90s and didn’t mind carrying around a bunch of Casio watches, that is. At the former home (and, to be frank, dope... And while many of these can be seen in a new light given the recent rise to prominence of smartwatches, Casio isn’t trying to claim that it was there first. Instead, a company representative tells me, the intent behind the exhibition is to lend context to Casio’s current lineup of more traditional watches. Barring a huge spike in the mid-‘90s when the G-Shock line gained popularity, Casio was never able to achieve major sales growth in the watch segment until more recently, when it started to focus on analog models — some of which have basic... But I was struck by how many smartwatch features considered groundbreaking today were around in some form years or decades ago. You can see some of Casio's more outlandish models. Source: www.theverge.com
