The Star Trek Communicator Is Now a High-End Wristwatch

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• Masshuru@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This looks like a fun project for 3d printing a wrap for existing digital watches.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Or chuck an esp32 into it with an el cheapo display.

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• ValueSubtracted@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The stellar irony here is that in the Star Trek universe, the United Federation of Planets is a post-scarcity, post-capitalist society where money is obsolete and its enlightened citizens work instead for self-improvement and the betterment of humanity. Hautlence didn’t get this memo, as each Retrovision ’64 will retail for an out-of-this-world $165,000. Only three ardent Trekkies will be able to get one, though, as that’s all that will be made.

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• StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It looks like a 1970s toy. . . Which makes sense given who their target market is.

  I would take it as another sign that the franchise has aged out were it not for the fact that it’s always had awful merchandising and licensing.

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  $165,000

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• Noctambulist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It looks ridiculous. Should at least have been a smart watch. But I guess you can’t demand a six-figure price without making it an analog watch — no matter if it fits the design.

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• zabadoh@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  For $165K, does it come with an original TOS communicator prop?

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• noxypaws@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  give it some time for a Chinese clone for one hundredth the price that works just as well

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