The Star Trek Communicator Is Now a High-End Wristwatch
This luxury Swiss watch brand has gone where no one has gone before. Unfortunately, the price is out of this world too.
That's...a lot of credits.
That's...a lot of credits.
I think I'll stick with my Timex.
(And yes, it's a matter of pride that I wear a $38 Timex, rather than a more expensive watch, that I write with a low-end Pelikan, rather than a Mont Blanc, and that I drive a pre-owned 2018 Nissan Leaf, with a bumper sticker that says, "Not a Tesla, and DAMN PROUD of it.")
(And yes, it's a matter of pride that I wear a $38 Timex, rather than a more expensive watch, that I write with a low-end Pelikan, rather than a Mont Blanc, and that I drive a pre-owned 2018 Nissan Leaf, with a bumper sticker that says, "Not a Tesla, and DAMN PROUD of it.")
Ironically, in TMP, the flip-open communicators were replaced by wrist-band communicators. By TWOK, however, they were largely phased out in lieu of new flip-open ones.
If you doubled the volume of a standard smart watch, what would you get?
Deafened.
Yeah, the authentic Star Trek thing was right there and they didn't go for it...
Be nice to have by dropping the price a factor of 100.
For the price it looks tacky. I’d be embarrassed to say I’d spent so much on it.
For a tenth of the price you could get a beautiful watch to be proud of. For a hundredth of the price you could, actually.
For a tenth of the price you could get a beautiful watch to be proud of. For a hundredth of the price you could, actually.
Hmm. "Hautlence." Only a few letters away from flatulence.
I'd hardly call my $38 Timex ugly. Seems to me that they did this for the same reason that dogs lick their genitals: they did it because they can.
The price is the purpose. The specifics of the object are secondary.
I’m not a person who puts stock in things like expensive watches like yourself. I wear a Casio, it tells the time and that’s fine for me.
I wouldn’t call your Timex ugly. At the same time though, I can appreciate fine things. A nice $500-$1000 watch will look nicer than what we wear.
This Star Trek watch does not look nice.
"Veblen Good" is basically a $20 word for "snob appeal."
And "conspicuous consumption" has always brought to my mind somebody with a very obvious and completely untreated case of tuberculosis. ("TB or not TB: that is the consumption.")
And "conspicuous consumption" has always brought to my mind somebody with a very obvious and completely untreated case of tuberculosis. ("TB or not TB: that is the consumption.")
That just makes me want to say "Veblen Good" even more. What if it were a $40 word, or $400? Everyone would know how fancy I am!
I'm a simple Casio Digital Watch guy as well, I couldn't justify spending that kind of money on a watch.
I don't even wear a watch, it's easier to pull my phone out of my pocket than push the sleeve of a parka out of the way in the winter, and in the summer sweat-rashes from the wristband aren't anything I miss.
Indeed. Cell phones are bringing us back to the days when pocketwatches were the norm.
More volume.
Okay...
A typical smart watch has, let's say three cubic centimeters of volume. If you go to six cubic centimeters volume, then far more circuitry can be added. And battery life.
I think the problem is that watch looks like a goofy, piece of cheap shit you got at Hot Topic. Folks spending $165k for a watch are buying an IWC or Patek Philippe to impress the other fatcats in the boardroom.
Didn’t Elon Musk post a photo showing he slept with a Mass Effect prop reproduction gun under his pillow? There only needs to be three tacky 1%er nerds for this to pencil out. Maybe less if one or more are bought by a museum or high-end store that just wants to put it display as a curio to get people in the door.
(I checked, it was from Deus Ex.)
