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Today $300 or less can buy a watch that runs UNIX, can emulate any machine in 1981 in realtime, and stream data from the ~~ARPA~~Internet over a wireless connection orders of magnitude faster than any leased line.
Sounds like a €30 smartwatch I've seen some 7 years ago. Yep, it costed that back then. It ran Android 4.4 and even the battery was user replaceable.
I think it was called QW09.
Unfortunately, I was 10 at the time, and €30 sounded like a lot to me, so I didn't buy it :(
Edit: Found some pics![](https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/670c62f5-c711-4cba-a7c4-0dae5de0d9cb.png)
I mean, you can probably still get 300 different variants of that on aliexpress for less than $10