Wearable Tech

Before the iPhone, the Fitbit, the smart watch, and Google Glass, there was the pocket watch—the world’s first wearable, portable tech. And if now we think of the lowly pocket watch and its close relative, the wrist watch, as decidedly low tech, that wasn’t always the case. In the 19th century, portable time pieces were a true game changer that forever altered the way we looked at time as this article at Smithsonian.com explains.