A calculator watch is a watch with a calculator and a keypad / button section built into it. They have existed since the 1970s, and continue to be produced, though their heyday was the early to mid 1980s. The most notable brand is the Casio Databank series.
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Calculator Watch - Future
... The future of the calculator watch as a practical and useful electronic device has been impacted by the introduction of PDAs, cell phones, and other powerful multi-functional compact computing devices ... Both of these input/output bottlenecks further alienate calculator watches from multimedia applications ... devices being incorporated into a watch format—a Wrist PDA or more complex wearable computer -- just as the Data Bank absorbed the calculator function, TV ...
... The future of the calculator watch as a practical and useful electronic device has been impacted by the introduction of PDAs, cell phones, and other powerful multi-functional compact computing devices ... Both of these input/output bottlenecks further alienate calculator watches from multimedia applications ... devices being incorporated into a watch format—a Wrist PDA or more complex wearable computer -- just as the Data Bank absorbed the calculator function, TV ...
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