Apple iWatch worked on more than 30 years ago

Legendary industrial designer Hartmut Esslinger revealed unexpected details about «iWatch»: worn on the wrist device is currently planned for release by a lot of years ago. This is stated in his recent book on the history of design «Keep It Simple: The Early Design Years of Apple». Thus, if Apple does introduce iWatch later this year, it will be the realization of a fairly old idea.

Just look at the image of the title of this post. Note: this keyboard is designed to be worn on the user's wrist, comes bundled with a wireless headset. The keyboard 12 keys: the numbers from zero to 9, as well as keys for stars and grilles. As for the headset, this structure with a single speaker with a built-in microphone, which would bend to the user's mouth.

In addition, in the book there is a photo of a monolithic, collapsible concept workstation based on Lisa. Now the funny look at this bulky prototype consisting of a Lisa computer, monitor, printer and phone in one package.

Esslinger joined Apple's, by signing an exclusive contract in 1982, but left the company after the departure of Steve Jobs. Then, the designer then followed by Steve in the NeXT, however, after the return of Steve Jobs to Apple in 1997, he never returned to kupertinovtsy.