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Calculator Watch
A calculator watch is a digital watch with a built-in calculator, usually including buttons on the watch face. Calculator watches were first introduced in the 1970s and continue to be produced, despite falling from their peak popularity during the 1980s. The most dominant brands were the Casio Databank series and Timex Group, Timex. Most calculator watches perform only basic arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division). However, there are several models with additional functions: scientific, including transcendental function, transcendent and trigonometry, in models Casio CFX-20, CFX-200, CFX-400 and Citizen 49–9421, financial functions (Casio CBA-10) and also TV remote control functions (CMD-40B and CMD-30B). Usually, calculator watches operate with eight-digit numbers; however, calculator watches can work with six digits (for example, Casio C-801) or ten-digit (Casio CBA-10).878 History Calculator watches first appeared in the mid-1970 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time (magazine)
''Time'' (stylized in all caps as ''TIME'') is an American news magazine based in New York City. It was published Weekly newspaper, weekly for nearly a century. Starting in March 2020, it transitioned to every other week. It was first published in New York City on March 3, 1923, and for many years it was run by its influential co-founder, Henry Luce. A European edition (''Time Europe'', formerly known as ''Time Atlantic'') is published in London and also covers the Middle East, Africa, and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition (''Time Asia'') is based in Hong Kong. The South Pacific edition, which covers Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands, is based in Sydney. Since 2018, ''Time'' has been owned by Salesforce founder Marc Benioff, who acquired it from Meredith Corporation. Benioff currently publishes the magazine through the company Time USA, LLC. History 20th century ''Time'' has been based in New York City since its first issue published on March 3, 1923 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watches
A watch is a Clock, timepiece carried or worn by a person. It is designed to maintain a consistent movement despite the motions caused by the person's activities. A wristwatch is worn around the wrist, attached by a watch strap or another type of bracelet, including metal bands or leather straps. A pocket watch is carried in a pocket, often attached to a chain. A stopwatch is a type of watch that measures intervals of time. During most of their history, beginning in the 16th century, watches were mechanical devices, driven by clockwork, powered by winding a mainspring, and keeping time with an oscillating balance wheel. These are known as ''mechanical watches''. In the 1960s the electronic quartz clock, ''quartz watch'' was invented, powered by a Battery (electricity), battery and keeping time with a vibrating quartz crystal. By the 1980s it had taken over most of the watch market, in what became known as the Quartz crisis, quartz revolution (or the quartz crisis in Switzerla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980s Fashion
Fashion of the 1980s was characterized by a rejection of psychedelic colored, ornate fashions of the 1970s fashion, 1970s. Punk fashion began as a reaction against both the hippie movement of the past decades and the materialist values of the current decade. The first half of the decade was relatively tame in comparison to the second half, which was when apparel became very bright and vivid in appearance. One of the features of fashion in the second half of the 1980s was the interest in alternative forms. In the 1980s, Alternative fashion, alternative trends became widespread. This phenomenon has been associated with such phenomena as street style, Punk rock, punk and post-punk. During the 1980s, Shoulder pad (fashion), shoulder pads, which also inspired "power dressing," became common among the growing number of career-driven women. Hair in the 1980s was typically big, curly hair, curly, bouffant and heavily styled. Television shows such as ''Dynasty (1981 TV series), Dynasty'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smartwatch
A smartwatch is a portable wearable computer that resembles a wristwatch. Most modern smartwatches are operated via a touchscreen, and rely on mobile apps that run on a connected device (such as a smartphone) in order to provide core functions. Early smartwatches were capable of performing basic functions like calculator watch, calculating, displaying digital time, translating text, and playing games. More recent models often offer features comparable to smartphones, including apps, a mobile operating system, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity, and the ability to function as portable media players or FM broadcasting, FM radios. Some high-end models have cellular capabilities, allowing users to make and receive phone calls. While internal hardware varies, most smartwatches have a backlit Liquid-crystal display, LCD or OLED electronic visual display and are powered by a rechargeable lithium-ion battery. They may also incorporate GPS navigation device, GPS receivers, digital cameras ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nelsonic Game Watch
Nelsonic Industries is an American electronics manufacturing and development company that operated from Long Island City, Queens, New York CityShea, Tom. Shrinking Pac-Man Leads game-wristwatch market'. InfoWorld. pp. 44-45. 20 December 1982. in the early 1980s and throughout the 1990s when it was acquired by the watch-manufacturer, M.Z. Berger. Nelsonic produced numerous toy-themed wristwatches, often targeting younger audiences with likenesses of characters from popular franchises such as Barbie, the Ghostbusters, and Mario. Nelsonic became notable during the early mid-1980s for being the first electronics company in the United States to produce game-watches (multi-purpose electronic devices capable of functioning as both a time-piece and as a typically electronic game). For a period subsequent to its purchase by M.Z. Berger, Nelsonic operated as a subsidiary division of its parent company and game-watches were produced that bore the Nelsonic mark. This practice ended as M.Z. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casio CA-53W
The Casio CA-53W is a digital calculator watch manufactured by the Japanese electronics company Casio and was introduced in 1988 as a successor to the CA-50. It became famous for its appearance in the American science fiction films '' Back to the Future Part II'' (1989) and '' Back to the Future Part III'' (1990) and later for appearing in the American TV series ''Breaking Bad'' (2008–2013). Specifications Design The case of the watch measures 43.2 by 34.4 by 8.2 millimetres and the watch has a weight of 24 grams. The case has a lug-to-lug width of 42 millimetres and a thickness of 8 millimeters (including the raised area of the case back). The case of the watch is made from resin, with a plastic watch crystal, and a stainless steel case back with the model and module number stamped on it which is secured with four screws. The inner lug width (where the strap attaches) is 20 millimeters, and the strap is made of polyurethane. The strap can be swappe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casio
is a Japanese multinational electronics manufacturing corporation headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Its products include calculators, mobile phones, digital cameras, electronic musical instruments, and analogue and digital watches. It was founded in 1946, and in 1957 introduced the first entirely compact electronic calculator. It was an early digital camera innovator, and during the 1980s and 1990s, the company developed numerous affordable home electronic keyboards for musicians along with introducing the first mass-produced digital watches. History Casio was established as Kashio Seisakujo in April 1946 by (1917–1993), an engineer specializing in fabrication technology. Kashio's first major product was the yubiwa pipe, a finger ring that would hold a cigarette, allowing the wearer to smoke the cigarette down to its nub while also leaving the wearer's hands free. Japan was impoverished immediately following World War II, so cigarettes were valuable, and the inventi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Citizen Watch
, also known as the Citizen Group, is an electronics company primarily known for its watches and is the core company of a economy of Japan, Japanese global corporation, corporate group based in Nishitokyo, Tokyo, Japan. In addition to Citizen brand watches, it is the parent of American watch company Bulova. Beyond watches, Citizen also manufactures Calculator, calculators, Printer (computing), printers, health care devices, and precision CNC machining equipment. History The company was founded in 1930 by Japanese and economy of Switzerland, Swiss investors. It took over Shokosha Watch Research Institute (founded in 1918) and some facilities of the assembly plant opened in Yokohama in 1912 by the Swiss watchmaker Rodolphe Schmid. The brand Citizen was first registered in Switzerland by Schmid in 1918 for watches he sold in Japan. The development of this brand was supported in the 1920s by Count Gotō Shinpei with his hope that watches could become affordable to the general public. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seiko
, commonly known as Seiko ( , ), is a Japanese maker of watches, clocks, electronic devices, and semiconductors. Founded in 1881 by Kintarō Hattori in Tokyo, Seiko introduced the world's first commercial quartz wristwatch in 1969. Seiko is widely known for its wristwatches. Seiko and Rolex are the only two watch companies considered to be vertically integrated. Seiko is able to design and develop all the components of a watch, as well as assemble, adjust, inspect and ship them in-house. Seiko's mechanical watches consist of approximately 200 parts, and the company has the technology and production facilities to design and manufacture all of these parts in-house. The company was incorporated (K. Hattori & Co., Ltd.) in 1917 and renamed Hattori Seiko Co., Ltd. in 1983 and Seiko Corporation in 1990. After reconstructing and creating its operating subsidiaries (such as Seiko Watch Corporation and Seiko Clock Inc.), it became a holding company in 2001 and was renamed Seiko Hol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gizmodo Media Group
Gizmodo Media Group was an online media company and blog network formerly operated by Univision Communications (now TelevisaUnivision) in its Fusion Media Group division. The company was created from assets acquired from Gawker Media during its bankruptcy in 2016. In April 2019, ''Gizmodo'' and ''The Onion'' were sold to private equity firm Great Hill Partners, which combined them into a new company named G/O Media. History Univision acquisition (2016) On June 10, 2016, Gawker Media filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after the company was ordered to pay $115 million in compensatory damages and a further $25 million in punitive damages in '' Bollea v. Gawker''. On August 16, 2016, Univision Communications purchased Gawker for $135 million. The purchase did not include the flagship website Gawker. It included the websites Gizmodo, Jezebel, Deadspin, Kotaku, Jalopnik, and Lifehacker. Univision named the unit Gizmodo Media Group after one of its blogs, ''Gizmodo'', in an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
