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Casio Caleid XM-700 Mobile Navigator (1997)
- tpmx 3y agoWhat a delightfully weird product!
- msephton 3y agoExactly! :)
- neilv 3y agoAround then, there seemed to be a cottage industry of importing electronics that were developed for and marketed only to Japan. Japan had a lot of neat innovations that you couldn't otherwise get in the US.
- reaperducer 3y agoIt's still a thing. You pay a premium, but it's cool to bump into an end table and have your alarm clock shout earthquake warnings in scratchy digitized Japanese at you. Or casually keep a personal cartoon-themed radiation monitor on your desk.
- DaiPlusPlus 3y agoNeither of those are particularly innovative inventions.
- scorxn 3y agoOh man, what a fun era of tech. I had a REX 6000 that I adored.
- tiahura 3y agoWhat happened to Casio? In the early 80’s they had some really cool products and then decline.
- AndrewOMartin 3y agoThey achieved perfection and retired undefeated.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoCasio watches are timeless.
- iancmceachern 3y agoI'm wearing one of their calculator watches now, it's my daily driver
- DaiPlusPlus 3y ago...they don't sound like very good watches then *bum-tish*
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- NikkiA 3y agoThey're still around, still trundling on selling watches, calculators and musical keyboards aimed mostly at learning.
- msephton 3y agoThis PDA was a product of their calculator division.
- actionfromafar 3y agoI'm the operator With my pocket calculator I'm the operator With my pocket calculator I am adding And subtracting I'm controlling And composing I'm the operator With my pocket calculator I'm the operator With my pocket calculator By pressing down a special key It plays a little melody By pressing down a special key It plays a little melody
- verytrivial 3y agoI remember seeing a Japanese designer, possibly current or ex-Sony, talking about a Walkman. They were saying (via subtitles) something along the lines that that the device needed to feel like something you wanted to hold, regardless of what it was meant to do. There was something about understanding the physicality of the object itself which stuck with me. We only see glimpses of this now, since there is only a single object that people hold, and it's just a cuboid. I would argue that early to mid Ive-era Apple continued this in two-dimensions. But something has been lost in the last decade or so. Is it a move to video and events instead of things, words and thoughts? I don't know.
- bitwize 3y agoOne of the things I really liked about the Nintendo Switch was just how cool it felt to grip the device and how natural playing it felt. That aspect of the Switch's industrial design is something Nintendo really nailed... even if they cheaped out on the sticks...
- wildzzz 3y agoI never enjoyed holding a switch. I got the controller grip adapter thing specifically because of how cramped everything feels. I can grip it better but the button layout still sucks. Even the pro controller feels too small and cramped. I enjoy the 360 and PS4/5 controllers a lot because they just fit my hand rather than some rectangle that feels like I'm trying to hold a phablet. I'm sure the switch is fine for kids which makes sense since Nintendo is geared towards the younger demographic.
- iancmceachern 3y agoAnd what Ive did was only a continuation of the work Dieter Rams was doing his whole career.
- iancmceachern 3y agoDown voted for saying Ive and Dieter were in the same school? This is a known, accepted fact https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/style/article/dieter-rams-film-exhibition-style-intl/index.html https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/style/article/d...
- anonymousiam 3y agoFrom the same year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_Cassiopeia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_Cassiopeia I still have two of these (A-10) and they were great in their day.
- msephton 3y agoFriendly note to the person that changed the title: CALEID was only ever used capitalised. In the same way as VAIO, etc.
- somat 3y agoA great write-up for an obscure process, But the question consumes me, What does the "DUST SHOOT" do? It is given a very prominent place in the ui with that amazing aperture icon. If I had to hazard a guess it is a drop pocket used to discard synced items. coupled with some loadwords that no longer exactly make sense in english(american. I know british has dust bins, does anyone call them dust shoots?) My second thought was to clean the camera sensor, but that makes no sense at all given the device and the era it was in. I mainly mention this because I was laughing at myself for even thinking of it. "Yes we will give an obscure service action only found on professional cameras a beautiful icon, right on the front page of our sync app"
- rendaw 3y ago> I wonder how many other people have played this game in the last 25 years? I presume all the people who have played the game have played it in the last 25 years.