Before smartwatches, there was the gesture-controlled, touchscreen Casio AT-552 Janus. That’s right, the AT Janus models (AT-551 and AT-552) included an eight-digit touchscreen calculator where the entire display could be used to ‘write’ the number or calculator function. The watch would recognize what had been written by the user’s fingertip and perform the calculation.
One caveat: they sometimes break. It’s typically the analog portion that stops working, and these are a disaster to disassemble. It’s not recommended that one disassemble one unless you know exactly what you’re doing. If that isn’t an issue, you can transplant pieces between similar AT models with great success and, theoretically, the analog piece can be replaced with one of the more generic analog/digital Casio units, which are far cheaper.
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