Dick Tracy's Watch: The Tech Meme That Won't Die

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Submission + - Dick Tracy's Watch: The Tech Meme That Won't Die (time.com)

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harrymcc

on Monday February 11, 2013 @08:50PM

harrymcc writes: "Rumor has it that Apple is working on a smartwatch. The New York Times' Nick Bilton, who broke the news, and many other tech journalists, have brought up Dick Tracy's famous two- way wrist communicator in their coverage of it. That's not surprising--Tracy's watch always comes up in discussions of wearable communications gadgetry. And it has since 1947, shortly after the comic-strip cop first got his wrist radio. Over at TIME, I took a look at this seemingly indestrictible cultural touchstone."

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