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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

'Dick Tracy watch' again

NTT DoCoMo is to sell a wristwatch-mobile phone, reports AFP. But it is clearly not expecting millions of buyers. A recent Wired piece claims: "'Dick Tracy watch' is shorthand for an unfulfilled desire, something industry should have long since delivered. We can sequence the human genome, but we can't make a Dick Tracy watch?" I suspect it is still a few years away....

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