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| Finger Watch | ||
| A ring that contains a working timepiece and a display. |
This is one of my favorite pieces of technovelgy; why can't I buy one of these? The idea is simple enough; a ring that contains a small read-out of the current time.
| Crayn glanced at his finger watch as his aide fastened the cloak he had brought hurriedly after him. It was three-forty-seven, Galactic Time. |
| Technovelgy from Key Decision,
by H.B. Fyfe. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1951 Additional resources -
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Robert Heinlein mentioned the same idea in his 1951 novel The Puppet Masters; however, Fyfe published his story in May of 1951, but Heinlein's story wasn't serialized in Galaxy until September-November of 1951.
Keith Laumer used it in Placement Test (1964):
Now, wouldn't that be handy? I'm a person who does not like to wear watches or other jewelry. I could have a little timepiece built into my wedding ring; that's all I'd need.
There have been various versions of an actual finger watch reported; it appears as though Fila has introduced a version for runners:
"Seventeen hours" - The Old Man glanced at his finger watch and added - "and twenty-three minutes ago an unidentified space ship landed near Grinnell, Iowa."
Dean Wormwell’s eyes, blurry behind thick contact lenses, strayed to his fingerwatch.
(Fila Fingerwatch)
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