They could have a very popular consumer product if they had expanded this LCD to bigger dimensions (maybe, the size of a walkman, a very popular product at this time) and created a truly portable TV.
The Seiko TV watch
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#132Try this exercise: Hold your arm so a watch strapped on top of your wrist would be facing toward your eyes for easy viewing of its display. If you have a smartwatch, or any kind of watch, you do this many times a day. Now hold your arm in that position for 30 or 60 minutes to watch an entire TV show. You can take a break during the commercials. Enjoying that? Probably not. With a [smart]watch, you only glance at it a…
You would normally see people with portable TVs, so that they could see the TV broadcast, hear the color commentary, and catch instant replays. Having a watch with small dongle receiver, with low weight and low power consumption, is so much MORE convenient than lugging the shoebox-sized TV around.
I can imagine similar convenience on a train commute.
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#133Re: The Seiko TV watch
#134Try this exercise: Hold your arm so a watch strapped on top of your wrist would be facing toward your eyes for easy viewing of its display. If you have a smartwatch, or any kind of watch, you do this many times a day. Now hold your arm in that position for 30 or 60 minutes to watch an entire TV show. You can take a break during the commercials. Enjoying that? Probably not. With a [smart]watch, you only glance at it a…
I don’t know if many people enjoy it, but I see people do it every day. Sometimes you can
And you know, if the watch is really that uncomfortable when you’re holding it up for watching TV, you can even take it off!
> It is interesting to see a very clever product idea that completely ignores human anatomy.
I guess you don’t use, for example, laptops?
Re: The Seiko TV watch
#135Try this exercise: Hold your arm so a watch strapped on top of your wrist would be facing toward your eyes for easy viewing of its display. If you have a smartwatch, or any kind of watch, you do this many times a day. Now hold your arm in that position for 30 or 60 minutes to watch an entire TV show. You can take a break during the commercials. Enjoying that? Probably not. With a [smart]watch, you only glance at it a…
Same thing applies to touch screen laptops. No one ever uses it.
Do you enjoy a keyboard that ruins your hands and a screen that ruins your back?
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
The statistics actually show the opposite - Japanese women are still interested in men, it's the men who aren't interested in women
If we're going to do a one sentence summary here, it's "Japanese men don't enter the dating world without a job, and if they don't get that after college it won't ever happen".