At the beginning of the 1990s in Czechoslovakia, when I was in 5th grade, one of my classmates brought a Casio watch with a calculator and databank from West Germany. All the boys in the class were absolutely mind-blown and incredibly jealous.
Sounds like legit recorded audio though.. The volume isn't 100% consistent, the plosives sounds correct, and you can hear breathing now and then. Also the script isn't repetitive, so it may be written.
@Orbi-taloh he definitely did record it with his voice. I mean the script for it, It's definitely chatGPT he just read it off and said that it was his own.
I LOVE these weird watches. I live in Japan, so every time I see one used for a decent price, I buy it. Retro gadgets are so fun and require different skills from newer devices.
I had so much fun with my Casio remote control watch. Me and some friends went by people's houses at night and turned their tv off or turn the volume all the way up. People went nuts and we laughed so hard. Good times!
But this was not x, it was y Every piece has a conclussion with a learning bit They are not just x, they are y And other common things, like no filler words, inflections, etc
I had the calculator watch when i was a kid and used it TONS. I was always a nerd and was ALWAYS calculating something on the fly. As a kid my fingers were small enough to push the buttons , but i'd often use a pencil eraser. I'd do gearing and electrical calculations when racing RC cars, check figures when reading, all sorts of stuff. I had a few because i would wear out the buttons using it dozens of times a day. It's not that it's not useful, it's that most people just avoid math entirely lol.
It's impossible to convey how cool calculator watches were in the 80s and early 90s, especially if you were the kind of kid who loved anything "high tech". Even now I feel like buying one after watching this.
Script probably is yes, but this is person read and spoken. Tho he def has a bit of strange speech pattern, but that’s something plenty people have. And not easily replicated by an ai, since that strives to be near perfect in it’s own way.
When I was around six or seven a kid in my class had the TV remote watch and would mess with the TVs in School and teachers would loose their minds, convinced all the TVs were faulty. Was superb to see as a kid. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The remote control watch was an absolute hit at my school. It was such a good prank to put in a horrorvideo and then randomly switch on the tv in class.
Casio remote control watch was the stuff of legends. Never actually saw one IRL but we would hear rumors about it, no shop in Borneo actually sold it. Did however had the chance to use the Casio portable TV.
I just love that Casio still makes these watches, I got myself three of them. It reminds me of the days when tech was just fun and experimentation and not something that you have to fear.
The IR thermometer makes a lot of sense, when other thermometer watches end up measuring your wrist's temperature, instead of ambient, this one was actually useful for checking the conditions.
the tv remote casio watch was for changing the tv channel at school and sitting on the bus to school changing the tv channel on whatever tv you could find. it was like a super power for kids with parents who had too much money. so good
Man, absolutely gorgeous video. Great memories. I've just missed the Casio Game Watch. One of my dreams as a kid as it was quite expensive, and it still is in these days. Maybe on the next video 😉
as a mechanical watch semi-enthusiast/tinkerer/repairman, and massive vintage computation/software, analog computation, etc nerd... who wares a GWM5610 to work; this is a wonderful rundown of casio digital's history
loved my old data bank watches, i owned a few, the remote commander was a pain to use for sure but definitely impressed. surprised they haven't tackled the smart watch...
I picked one up recently on the world time platform except instead of a map it's got a moon phase and wave graph, threw it in a metal case with metal strap and it's my fav so far
I love the Casio DBC watches and still use them. It's easy to take a dump on things that were around before you were born leaving you without any context as to why they existed and the utility the provided. All today's tech looks the same, you can't readily tell one smartphone from another, one smartwatch from another, but you can easily see when someone is wearing a Casio, whether a G-Shock or an ABL, it stands out and is different.
I remember my g-shock quite fondly. It had the ability to save birthdays and phone numbers. Made avid use of the phone number saving function in a time before smartphones
I think you're presenting this from a current person's viewpoint, and doesn't reflect how it was at the time. For example, back then the calculator watch was geniunely useful. When you say it was frustrating to use and you'd just go get a calculator, this is completely wrong. When you were out of the house, you'd not have a computer, phone, ipad, or anything that could be used as a calculator, there was no option to go find one without going home.
I agree with that point of view, but those tiny buttons are really inconvenient. My friend has that model, "Back in the Future" one, and I had a hard time even multiplying 250 by 5. Or maybe my fingers are too sausage-like)
What very few people know about the Casio DBC-V500, is the fact that you could use the voice recordings (you could have more recordings, as long as the sum of their length didn't exceed 20 seconds), as alarms for memos in the schedule function, or for regular alarms. So you could have your favourite song, or any other recording, as an alarm in the morning. 🤩
"the smartphone era" was preceded by the PDA era, dominated by Palm Pilot (PalmOS), Nokia (Symbian/S60), and HP (Windows CE). These devices could be outfitted with aftermarket scanners and sensors. Palm in particular adopted the handwriting recognition like that used on the Casio Janus
I was about to mention that. The iPhone didn't invent or bring anything new to the market, it's just repackaged tech that had already existed for decades.
I've still got my TV Remote Control watch, the best thing about it is it has a learn function. You point the original remote at the watch and press the corresponding buttons on the watch and the remote at the same time for 3 seconds and the watch remembers the function.
I wonder if/when they'll start cranking features like these into mainstream smartphones. IR cameras for thermal & night vision, universal remotes, Flipper Zero features, golf/construction range finder, laser pointers, bottle openers... Sure these features are available in niche phones, but iPhones have been coasting on quantitative improvements for too long, and are overdue for qualitative improvements.
"They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should." So applicable with 90s Casios. But let's face it, we all thought they were so cool!
I once was waiting for a friend to come down from his office to have lunch about 2 years ago. As I was waiting outside, a man walked out from a certain luxury watch store right next door to have a smoke. He asked me for a light and saw I was wearing a gshock. He commented nice watch and nailed the model, triple red japan import ga2100 that I bought while living abroad. I told him this is probably the only watch brand or type I’ll ever buy as it was everything I needed. He got exited, pulled up his sleeve and showed me he was wearing a gshock as well. Then he took out his phone and began showing me his insane gshock collection. My friend later came out to meet me. They knew each other and we had a chat. Turns out he was the GM of this luxury watch brand. I was shocked but asked why he doesn’t wear any of those watches, especially with the kind of access that he has. He said he never has and never will wear anything but Casios. Showed me just how significant of a mark Casio has made on the world. ⌚️
If their Thermo Scanner went to higher temps I would for sure buy one for dabbing but it only goes from -4°F to 392°F 🫤 cool option if they updated it with higher temp range and rename it The Dab-o-Clock or Casio Dabmaster 🤣
Ya'll don't know but that watch calculator was such a life changer for us cos it was a flex and came in handy since we weren't allowed to use calculators at school
I wore a CA53W for a few years. Purchased it with no intention of ever using the calculator, but found myself using it far more than I realised I would. Quick calculations, on the go, were far faster to do on the watch than having to pull out my phone. You get used to the small buttons.
I have a 90s Casio moon cycle watch. It's a fishing accessory, apparently, but I just liked its cool face features. I couldn't find it atm, but when a Google Lens'd my other older family watches in my collection, I was blown away with their value.
My dad had one, it broke at some point and he really did a botch up trying to fix it, its worth so much money now too! Hope someone found it and tried to bring it back when he did eventually bin it
Calculator watches as a teen in the 80's did work well. Teachers never expected it and being young it was easier to touch and read the display. I had a touch screen one which was great. Casio TC - 600 watch
1:50 I had this watch. We had so much fun standing at the window of Radio Rentals and other such shops where TVs were sold, changing the channels and increasing the volume.
I had a casio calculator watch though out the 2010s. Bought it from a closing k mart. It was super useful in maintenence work. Getting your phone out, unlocking it and finding the calculator app could never replace it.
I had an almost similar watch in the thumbnail back in 1999. It told elevation and ocean depth and humidity. I’m a surfer so it was amazing and looked futuristic. I took it hiking too and it was pretty accurate. I forgot about it until now!
I think you are completely correct. But remember that Casio exists today *because* of their wacky ideas, not in spite of them. I think the brand is still quite universally loved because they combine that weirdness and silliness with genuine quality. My favourite was my VL-TONE - a calculator that was also a full-on synthesiser which made me the coolest kid in school. I personally regard the Casio product developers as gods, who are responsible for my life long love of technology and science fiction.
The remote control watch would actually be a game changer if it just had one button that spit out like every sequence that shuts off most major tv brands so you could shut public tvs off with your watch.
I owned the remote-control watch as a kid in the 90s. I spent countless lessons quietly turning the TV volume up and down, much to the confusion and frustration of my teachers. On one occasion, my English teacher asked me to fetch some books from her car. I secretly programmed my watch to match her car remote and soon had the power to unlock it at will, earning near-legendary status among my classmates when I demonstrated the trick. Word of my amazing watch spread quickly, and before long, a few other kids got their own, eager to wield the same God-like powers. One day in Geography class, I took off my watch and toyed with the TV, then hid it under my leg. The teacher stormed over, demanding I show my wrist. I held out my bare arm, claiming I had forgotten my watch at home, and pointed to Shane, one of the other kids with the same model, suggesting it was probably him who had fiddled with the TV. Shane protested vehemently as the teacher marched to his desk, removed his watch, and kept it until the end of the day. Meanwhile, I quietly slipped my own watch into my pocket, stifling laughter as Shane glared daggers at me across the room.
My Grandpa had one that told him when the fish were biting. It also told you how deep the fish were somehow. He swore by it, said it was ninety five percent accurate.
Lol I actually had a CMD40 as recent as a year ago. Battery was dead though and I didn't even knew if it was functioning properly but it still sold for like $60 in a heartbeat.
I don't see casio as a company that is synonymous with stability, at least not in the way you put it, when I think of casio I precisely think of all these wacky cool watches they've made, mainly the calculator watch. I'm sad they haven't innovated much with crazy models in recent years.
The watch was brilliant at driving teachers nuts. Convincing my English teacher that she had magical powers because every time she walked toward the T.V. it would turn off.
The Casio remote watch was aimed at those wishing to surreptitiously alter volume or change channels on televisions in bars and pubs where you might find volume too low or too high and aren't convinced the bar staff will change it as you request. That definitely had its advantages, I knew someone who bought it for this very purpose - he hated the horse racing callers that were put up too loud at his local on a Saturday afternoon.
The 2 best way to shop for these was store catalogues at home. Then whilst shopping at the department store through the glass gase. Those were magical days.
I used to have an EasyRec one when I was a grade schooler. Got it as a birthday gift. I recorded Goku shouting "Kame-Hame-Haaa" from the TV's speaker. It made me, if briefly, the star of the classroom
These watches are great, especially in those days. (Yes, I'm old 😆) My cousin has of those remote control casio. Bruh, it was fun messing with your neighbors tv, restaurants, or any electronic stores. I have the calculator watch. We can't use calculators in grade school during exams or quizzes. That watch helped me a lot 😆 And you can save your friends name and number. It's like a phone book. 😁 I pity you. You grew up in the age of smartphones. You guys didn't get to experience our life with little technologies like this watches back then.
I collect Casio calculators, and that collection includes a couple of DBC-611's and a couple of CFX-200 scientific calculator watches. I actually wear those watches. They are totally impractical of course, but also undeniably cool.
I had one of those remote watches in high school, I used to mess with the TVs and VCRs in class, it was great getting the sub to return the TV cart cause it must be broken lol
I'm surprised you didn't mention the Casio WQV-1, it was the first digital camera watch, it's terrible quality black and white, only one step above a GameBoy Camera, but I love it.
Agreed, I have the color version, which takes tiny blurry photos. I even have the IR transceiver for it now, to download them to my PC. Casio watches used to have a gadget factor that was through the roof.
I have a Casio Riseman (DW-9100), with a built in Temp and Barometric sensor, and it tells you the changing weather conditions over a 12 hr time period. Also, it has an altimeter sensor so that if you go above a certain altitude (either relative or based on a starting alt) its alarm goes off so you know you've reached a preset altitude.
I think the inventors of these watches knew they were impractical at the time. They were just having a blast designing and creating them!! Who would use a calculator-watch with micro buttons to do anything practical??
back in 1996 i was in 6th grade and one day one of my classmates came to school with his brand new casio remote control watch and it came with a booklet/manual that had all the tv model codes on it and he was able to use the watch to turn the tv monitor in the classroom on and off a few times in the middle of class until the teacher disconnected it, it was pretty cool
Awesome video! Curious to see how some of these watches were so far ahead of their time: the Janus buttonless number entry reminds me of Graffiti, an alternate entry method for Apple's Newton (1993-98), itself vastly ahead of its time, while others were probably outdated when they hit the shelves: 20 seconds of voice memo in 1999 is impressive, but in the business market, you're competing with Palm Pilots which had multi-megahertz CPUs, three inch (IIRC) touchscreens and PC/Mac software. And IR sender/receiver.
I remember as a kid in the mid-to-late 1970's that our town bank offered a few different "rewards" for opening an account. The choices were a countertop toaster/oven, a digital watch, or a Casio calculator. My Mom, being practical - we already had a toaster/oven and a watch - got the calculator. And I played with the dang thing like it was a Nintendo Switch! Ah, different times...
I liked the watch they did that had a photodiode in it. You aimed at a computer monitor which flashed out a pattern and that was how you programmed it with you schedule. They had a plugin for Outlook so it could tell you when meetings started.
I had the IR Remote Watch and we used to mess around with TV's in shops at the display windows or at the TV walls, when some sales men tried to sell a TV to a customer. :) You could try through the list in the watch and go on till the TV would react.
i wore a casio with a stopwatch gimmick for a few years in grade school. i liked it cause it was a casio with bright yellow buttons. devices with multiple buttons and/or lcd displays were automatically super sexy in the 90's. i remember my family going from a ford to a mazda and freaking out over all the buttons and lights. i miss my phones with IR sensors. for a few years i owned every tv i wanted.
That's what separates Casio from Texas Instruments, Yamaha, Timex, and Sony. They made products that competed with each of them, and did it in a way that made it unique to their competitors.
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If Casio made a car, it would be James Bond's wet dream.
They designed the first talking car module lol. I cant remember the make and model but remember Casio bragging about it in magazines in the 80s
Imagine if Casio made sex toys? 😱
At the beginning of the 1990s in Czechoslovakia, when I was in 5th grade, one of my classmates brought a Casio watch with a calculator and databank from West Germany. All the boys in the class were absolutely mind-blown and incredibly jealous.
Nothing wrong with those beautiful experiments, i love them. I had the calculator one
Make a calculator watch with voice recognition, then you'd have something
@MikeBarbarossa The touch screen watch in the 80's was wonderful. I don't know how he missed it.
I still have mine 👌
So basically Casio was ahead of its time decades before anyone else.
you can feel the chatgpt prompt through the passionless script holy moly
Sounds like legit recorded audio though.. The volume isn't 100% consistent, the plosives sounds correct, and you can hear breathing now and then. Also the script isn't repetitive, so it may be written.
First you need to understand, It's not x, it's y
@Orbi-taloh he definitely did record it with his voice. I mean the script for it, It's definitely chatGPT he just read it off and said that it was his own.
I used the calculator to cheat in school
Your first mention is one of the very reason people love Casio. They do things that others don't/can't.
ChatGPT wrote this
Thanks grok
And?
Thank you for your service, the resistance will contact you, if, and when, terminators become a thing.
DVD players we're not a thing in 1993 like this first watch in the video tries to claim. Poor research, definitely AI script.
I drove the teachers nuts with my remote watch! 😂
Over 30 years ago, I wanted the Casio calculator watch then forgot about it. Now I want it again 😂
I LOVE these weird watches. I live in Japan, so every time I see one used for a decent price, I buy it. Retro gadgets are so fun and require different skills from newer devices.
I had so much fun with my Casio remote control watch. Me and some friends went by people's houses at night and turned their tv off or turn the volume all the way up. People went nuts and we laughed so hard. Good times!
THAT Timecop1983? 😮 Cool to see you here😊 Love your music.
Love your music since 2016!!!!! Specially Lovers, love that song from you!
I have a Casio CA-500WEGG-1BEF all stainless steel crome plated calculator watch. its dank AF 😌
Me too. The other thing to do, was go to restaurants that had TVs on, and eff with the TVs. It really wasn’t that tough to find the right frequency.
Any store with an electronics department... so fun.
the ai script is so obvious
Another slop video written by AI
What makes you think its ai
But this was not x, it was y
Every piece has a conclussion with a learning bit
They are not just x, they are y
And other common things, like no filler words, inflections, etc
@stevenliggins1623 The dead giveaway was they just straight up used Asianometry's voice.
@grok is this true??
I wish they still made these watches. Super cool
I had the calculator watch when i was a kid and used it TONS. I was always a nerd and was ALWAYS calculating something on the fly. As a kid my fingers were small enough to push the buttons , but i'd often use a pencil eraser. I'd do gearing and electrical calculations when racing RC cars, check figures when reading, all sorts of stuff. I had a few because i would wear out the buttons using it dozens of times a day.
It's not that it's not useful, it's that most people just avoid math entirely lol.
It's impossible to convey how cool calculator watches were in the 80s and early 90s, especially if you were the kind of kid who loved anything "high tech".
Even now I feel like buying one after watching this.
Oh no, they made a square watch where the display is on the diagonal, THE SCANDAL!
The calculator watch was always intended to be operated with the eraser end of a pencil
If Casio ever gets into the smartphone business, Samsung and Apple are going to have a problem 😅
calc watch was a perfect combination for no assist math tests. none of my teachers back in 82 had ever seen or heard of these watches.
This read like it was written by chatgpt...
Glad I wasn’t the only one
it most likely is.
The "presenter" changes pronunciation of the same word multiple times throughout the video - I think its an ai voice too.
Script probably is yes, but this is person read and spoken. Tho he def has a bit of strange speech pattern, but that’s something plenty people have. And not easily replicated by an ai, since that strives to be near perfect in it’s own way.
@SqualidsargeStudios i may be off here but it sounds like a pitched-up voice clone of asianometry. script is definitely ai
When I was around six or seven a kid in my class had the TV remote watch and would mess with the TVs in School and teachers would loose their minds, convinced all the TVs were faulty. Was superb to see as a kid. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The remote control watch was an absolute hit at my school. It was such a good prank to put in a horrorvideo and then randomly switch on the tv in class.
Casio remote control watch was the stuff of legends. Never actually saw one IRL but we would hear rumors about it, no shop in Borneo actually sold it. Did however had the chance to use the Casio portable TV.
That watch got me suspended in middle school.
I just love that Casio still makes these watches, I got myself three of them. It reminds me of the days when tech was just fun and experimentation and not something that you have to fear.
The IR thermometer makes a lot of sense, when other thermometer watches end up measuring your wrist's temperature, instead of ambient, this one was actually useful for checking the conditions.
Teacher- " you won't always have your calculator to help you."
80s kids- " hold my b.... soft drink"
This video is the weirdest, most randomly specific thing to show up in my feed in a long time. I'm definitely watching all of it.
Man, this is what i love about Casio. Some of their designs have been around for decades and you can still pick them up new from the shops.
the tv remote casio watch was for changing the tv channel at school and sitting on the bus to school changing the tv channel on whatever tv you could find. it was like a super power for kids with parents who had too much money. so good
You can boot cars with the remote control watch if you copy the immobiliser signal
Man, absolutely gorgeous video. Great memories. I've just missed the Casio Game Watch. One of my dreams as a kid as it was quite expensive, and it still is in these days. Maybe on the next video 😉
as a mechanical watch semi-enthusiast/tinkerer/repairman, and massive vintage computation/software, analog computation, etc nerd... who wares a GWM5610 to work; this is a wonderful rundown of casio digital's history
loved my old data bank watches, i owned a few, the remote commander was a pain to use for sure but definitely impressed. surprised they haven't tackled the smart watch...
2:48 not maybe a VCR, they were in almost every US home in the 1990's! They got something like 80% of all US households with a television.
I like how Casio is pronounced differently every time it's said.
That's AI slop doing its best for you
@tylaranderson8559how is this ai?
I picked one up recently on the world time platform except instead of a map it's got a moon phase and wave graph, threw it in a metal case with metal strap and it's my fav so far
I love the Casio DBC watches and still use them.
It's easy to take a dump on things that were around before you were born leaving you without any context as to why they existed and the utility the provided.
All today's tech looks the same, you can't readily tell one smartphone from another, one smartwatch from another, but you can easily see when someone is wearing a Casio, whether a G-Shock or an ABL, it stands out and is different.
I remember my g-shock quite fondly. It had the ability to save birthdays and phone numbers. Made avid use of the phone number saving function in a time before smartphones
Casio had some of the bulkiest watch designs ever made in the 90's
I think you're presenting this from a current person's viewpoint, and doesn't reflect how it was at the time. For example, back then the calculator watch was geniunely useful. When you say it was frustrating to use and you'd just go get a calculator, this is completely wrong. When you were out of the house, you'd not have a computer, phone, ipad, or anything that could be used as a calculator, there was no option to go find one without going home.
I agree with that point of view, but those tiny buttons are really inconvenient. My friend has that model, "Back in the Future" one, and I had a hard time even multiplying 250 by 5. Or maybe my fingers are too sausage-like)
Maybe it was made for children who needed calculators at school
@Lucaswatchit was the 80s. Like imagine using a Walkman today, makes no sense. You just made things work back then.
@Lucaswatchno one used the button with our fingers. We used our mechanical pencil lead sheaths to quickly bang out problems
I miss many things from this era 😁 love these watches
What very few people know about the Casio DBC-V500, is the fact that you could use the voice recordings (you could have more recordings, as long as the sum of their length didn't exceed 20 seconds), as alarms for memos in the schedule function, or for regular alarms. So you could have your favourite song, or any other recording, as an alarm in the morning. 🤩
"the smartphone era" was preceded by the PDA era, dominated by Palm Pilot (PalmOS), Nokia (Symbian/S60), and HP (Windows CE). These devices could be outfitted with aftermarket scanners and sensors. Palm in particular adopted the handwriting recognition like that used on the Casio Janus
I was about to mention that. The iPhone didn't invent or bring anything new to the market, it's just repackaged tech that had already existed for decades.
7:09 does it really beat talking to yourself in public during a phone call through wireless earbuds?
AI slop nothing burger content
I've still got my TV Remote Control watch, the best thing about it is it has a learn function.
You point the original remote at the watch and press the corresponding buttons on the watch and the remote at the same time for 3 seconds and the watch remembers the function.
I wonder if/when they'll start cranking features like these into mainstream smartphones. IR cameras for thermal & night vision, universal remotes, Flipper Zero features, golf/construction range finder, laser pointers, bottle openers...
Sure these features are available in niche phones, but iPhones have been coasting on quantitative improvements for too long, and are overdue for qualitative improvements.
"They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should." So applicable with 90s Casios. But let's face it, we all thought they were so cool!
They were 😊
I once was waiting for a friend to come down from his office to have lunch about 2 years ago. As I was waiting outside, a man walked out from a certain luxury watch store right next door to have a smoke. He asked me for a light and saw I was wearing a gshock. He commented nice watch and nailed the model, triple red japan import ga2100 that I bought while living abroad. I told him this is probably the only watch brand or type I’ll ever buy as it was everything I needed. He got exited, pulled up his sleeve and showed me he was wearing a gshock as well. Then he took out his phone and began showing me his insane gshock collection. My friend later came out to meet me. They knew each other and we had a chat. Turns out he was the GM of this luxury watch brand. I was shocked but asked why he doesn’t wear any of those watches, especially with the kind of access that he has. He said he never has and never will wear anything but Casios. Showed me just how significant of a mark Casio has made on the world. ⌚️
If their Thermo Scanner went to higher temps I would for sure buy one for dabbing but it only goes from -4°F to 392°F 🫤 cool option if they updated it with higher temp range and rename it The Dab-o-Clock or Casio Dabmaster 🤣
Ya'll don't know but that watch calculator was such a life changer for us cos it was a flex and came in handy since we weren't allowed to use calculators at school
The remote was fun in school, shutting the TV off during boring movies or cranking the volume up
I wore a CA53W for a few years. Purchased it with no intention of ever using the calculator, but found myself using it far more than I realised I would. Quick calculations, on the go, were far faster to do on the watch than having to pull out my phone. You get used to the small buttons.
I have a 90s Casio moon cycle watch. It's a fishing accessory, apparently, but I just liked its cool face features. I couldn't find it atm, but when a Google Lens'd my other older family watches in my collection, I was blown away with their value.
My dad had one, it broke at some point and he really did a botch up trying to fix it, its worth so much money now too! Hope someone found it and tried to bring it back when he did eventually bin it
Calculator watches as a teen in the 80's did work well. Teachers never expected it and being young it was easier to touch and read the display. I had a touch screen one which was great. Casio TC - 600 watch
1:50 I had this watch. We had so much fun standing at the window of Radio Rentals and other such shops where TVs were sold, changing the channels and increasing the volume.
I had a casio calculator watch though out the 2010s. Bought it from a closing k mart. It was super useful in maintenence work. Getting your phone out, unlocking it and finding the calculator app could never replace it.
Growing up, Casio was known for being cheap. That was it.
I had an almost similar watch in the thumbnail back in 1999. It told elevation and ocean depth and humidity. I’m a surfer so it was amazing and looked futuristic. I took it hiking too and it was pretty accurate. I forgot about it until now!
I had the Casio moon graph watch from the mid 80s. Still I think the best moon phase watch they ever made. It was simple and timeless.
I wanted so many of these as a kid in the 90s. Always envied one of the kids at school who had a watch that could play various tunes.
I think you are completely correct. But remember that Casio exists today *because* of their wacky ideas, not in spite of them.
I think the brand is still quite universally loved because they combine that weirdness and silliness with genuine quality. My favourite was my VL-TONE - a calculator that was also a full-on synthesiser which made me the coolest kid in school.
I personally regard the Casio product developers as gods, who are responsible for my life long love of technology and science fiction.
The remote control watch would actually be a game changer if it just had one button that spit out like every sequence that shuts off most major tv brands so you could shut public tvs off with your watch.
I have a TSR-100. It works well enough, but its unique shape really sets it apart.
The remote control watch was awesome, I had one and used it everyday
I owned the remote-control watch as a kid in the 90s. I spent countless lessons quietly turning the TV volume up and down, much to the confusion and frustration of my teachers. On one occasion, my English teacher asked me to fetch some books from her car. I secretly programmed my watch to match her car remote and soon had the power to unlock it at will, earning near-legendary status among my classmates when I demonstrated the trick.
Word of my amazing watch spread quickly, and before long, a few other kids got their own, eager to wield the same God-like powers. One day in Geography class, I took off my watch and toyed with the TV, then hid it under my leg. The teacher stormed over, demanding I show my wrist. I held out my bare arm, claiming I had forgotten my watch at home, and pointed to Shane, one of the other kids with the same model, suggesting it was probably him who had fiddled with the TV.
Shane protested vehemently as the teacher marched to his desk, removed his watch, and kept it until the end of the day. Meanwhile, I quietly slipped my own watch into my pocket, stifling laughter as Shane glared daggers at me across the room.
My Grandpa had one that told him when the fish were biting. It also told you how deep the fish were somehow. He swore by it, said it was ninety five percent accurate.
Lol I actually had a CMD40 as recent as a year ago. Battery was dead though and I didn't even knew if it was functioning properly but it still sold for like $60 in a heartbeat.
I don't see casio as a company that is synonymous with stability, at least not in the way you put it, when I think of casio I precisely think of all these wacky cool watches they've made, mainly the calculator watch. I'm sad they haven't innovated much with crazy models in recent years.
The watch was brilliant at driving teachers nuts. Convincing my English teacher that she had magical powers because every time she walked toward the T.V. it would turn off.
The Casio remote watch was aimed at those wishing to surreptitiously alter volume or change channels on televisions in bars and pubs where you might find volume too low or too high and aren't convinced the bar staff will change it as you request. That definitely had its advantages, I knew someone who bought it for this very purpose - he hated the horse racing callers that were put up too loud at his local on a Saturday afternoon.
The 2 best way to shop for these was store catalogues at home. Then whilst shopping at the department store through the glass gase. Those were magical days.
I had a tv remote watch, it was in fact one of the best things for a 90s kid in a classroom. i drove my teachers nuts
I was a carpenter out in the field. I had this Casio calculator watch. It was easy to use. I used it everyday. And people would trip out seeing it.
I used to have an EasyRec one when I was a grade schooler. Got it as a birthday gift. I recorded Goku shouting "Kame-Hame-Haaa" from the TV's speaker. It made me, if briefly, the star of the classroom
1:08 world 1st "compact" calculator had me
Not mentioning the WQV-1 was criminal
Ezra recorder made people think they were Micheal Knight Knight Rider.
These watches are great, especially in those days. (Yes, I'm old 😆)
My cousin has of those remote control casio. Bruh, it was fun messing with your neighbors tv, restaurants, or any electronic stores.
I have the calculator watch. We can't use calculators in grade school during exams or quizzes. That watch helped me a lot 😆
And you can save your friends name and number. It's like a phone book. 😁
I pity you. You grew up in the age of smartphones. You guys didn't get to experience our life with little technologies like this watches back then.
I bought a calculator watch a couple years back. Love it. It sits on my night stand.
I collect Casio calculators, and that collection includes a couple of DBC-611's and a couple of CFX-200 scientific calculator watches. I actually wear those watches. They are totally impractical of course, but also undeniably cool.
I had one of those remote watches in high school, I used to mess with the TVs and VCRs in class, it was great getting the sub to return the TV cart cause it must be broken lol
I'm surprised you didn't mention the Casio WQV-1, it was the first digital camera watch, it's terrible quality black and white, only one step above a GameBoy Camera, but I love it.
Agreed, I have the color version, which takes tiny blurry photos. I even have the IR transceiver for it now, to download them to my PC. Casio watches used to have a gadget factor that was through the roof.
I have a Casio Riseman (DW-9100), with a built in Temp and Barometric sensor, and it tells you the changing weather conditions over a 12 hr time period. Also, it has an altimeter sensor so that if you go above a certain altitude (either relative or based on a starting alt) its alarm goes off so you know you've reached a preset altitude.
I think the inventors of these watches knew they were impractical at the time. They were just having a blast designing and creating them!! Who would use a calculator-watch with micro buttons to do anything practical??
back in 1996 i was in 6th grade and one day one of my classmates came to school with his brand new casio remote control watch and it came with a booklet/manual that had all the tv model codes on it and he was able to use the watch to turn the tv monitor in the classroom on and off a few times in the middle of class until the teacher disconnected it, it was pretty cool
Listening 20 seconds while reading 30 seconds in the belt so many times is killing me
Awesome video!
Curious to see how some of these watches were so far ahead of their time: the Janus buttonless number entry reminds me of Graffiti, an alternate entry method for Apple's Newton (1993-98), itself vastly ahead of its time, while others were probably outdated when they hit the shelves: 20 seconds of voice memo in 1999 is impressive, but in the business market, you're competing with Palm Pilots which had multi-megahertz CPUs, three inch (IIRC) touchscreens and PC/Mac software. And IR sender/receiver.
Casio should make a watch with all their features in one
I remember as a kid in the mid-to-late 1970's that our town bank offered a few different "rewards" for opening an account. The choices were a countertop toaster/oven, a digital watch, or a Casio calculator. My Mom, being practical - we already had a toaster/oven and a watch - got the calculator. And I played with the dang thing like it was a Nintendo Switch! Ah, different times...
Hey, I thought the Casio VCR/TV remote watch was the perfect Father's Day gift....
I have the TSR 100. Doesn't work anymore but was great fun when it did
I liked the watch they did that had a photodiode in it. You aimed at a computer monitor which flashed out a pattern and that was how you programmed it with you schedule. They had a plugin for Outlook so it could tell you when meetings started.
I genuinley miss the IR blaster of my older Samsung phone... I used that all the time.
I had the IR Remote Watch and we used to mess around with TV's in shops at the display windows or
at the TV walls, when some sales men tried to sell a TV to a customer. :)
You could try through the list in the watch and go on till the TV would react.
The TSR-100 should have been the official Casio watch during COVID
i wore a casio with a stopwatch gimmick for a few years in grade school. i liked it cause it was a casio with bright yellow buttons. devices with multiple buttons and/or lcd displays were automatically super sexy in the 90's. i remember my family going from a ford to a mazda and freaking out over all the buttons and lights.
i miss my phones with IR sensors. for a few years i owned every tv i wanted.
That's what separates Casio from Texas Instruments, Yamaha, Timex, and Sony. They made products that competed with each of them, and did it in a way that made it unique to their competitors.