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The Smartwatch Saga: the tale of time | Forever Sure Deals

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The Smartwatch Saga: the tale of time | Forever Sure Deals

It all began when day and night were created. The need to tell the time, to know the time and to be on time has always been an intrinsic part of life and thousands of years ago, as early as 1500BC, simple sundials were used by Ancient Egyptians to tell time from sunrise to sunset. The first version, prototype or model of the smartwatch is a distant associate of what is now known as a digital watch, which debuted in 1972; this was the Pulsar manufactured by Hamilton Watch Company a Swiss manufacturer of wristwatches based in Bienne, Switzerland. In 1998, Steve Mann the 'father of wearable computing' invented, designed, and built the world's first Linux wristwatch,...

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