Shoulda-Been Movie Watches: TRON Edition
I posted my blue Armitron Griffy for #wruw yesterday. @Type2Camper wrote that it made him think of "the OG Tron movie." This comment necessitated a quick Photoshop job.
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Eric
Self-medicating with inexpensive digitals.
Los Angeles
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1,000 times agreed! 👌🏻
Greetings, Program! My User agrees and I'm sure the MCP does, too!😂
Perfect!
Greetings, Program! My User agrees and I'm sure the MCP does, too!😂
Griffy gang! Such a fun watch. And now I want a Tron edition! 😂
Cool AF
Problem is, your blue LED Armitron couldn't exist in 1982 when Tron was released. The first commercially available blue LED wasn't produced until 1989, and an efficient, ie bright, blue LED wasn't invented until 1993, for which the inventors won the Nobel Prize. So your blue digital watch couldn't have been the Tron movie watch, except after the fact as an anachronism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-emitting_diode#Blue_LED
Problem is, your blue LED Armitron couldn't exist in 1982 when Tron was released. The first commercially available blue LED wasn't produced until 1989, and an efficient, ie bright, blue LED wasn't invented until 1993, for which the inventors won the Nobel Prize. So your blue digital watch couldn't have been the Tron movie watch, except after the fact as an anachronism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-emitting_diode#Blue_LED
Next you'll be telling me that Users can't actually be digitized and uploaded to the Grid on the Encom mainframe. I WON'T HEAR IT! <fingers in ears> LALALALALA
But thanks for the surprisingly interesting real information!
Big fan of the OG Tron.
Watched Tron in theatre in ‘82!
Was cool then, and still is 😉
Apt choice. I'd add the Bulova Computron to the mix. Also someone around here has a totally Tron'd out watch which you might've spotted.
Apt choice. I'd add the Bulova Computron to the mix. Also someone around here has a totally Tron'd out watch which you might've spotted.
Of course this comment sent me down a rewarding/maddening rabbit hole. Thanks. The Computron is a watch that I love seeing pictures of but suspect I wouldn't actually wear if I owned one. Maybe I should find out for sure.