On: Turn-by-turntables: How drivers got from point A to point B in the early 1900s

[rikkipitt]

This reminded me of something similar: https://gajitz.com/scrolling-down-the-highway-vintage-1927-a...

It's a watch-like, wrist device called the "Plus Four Wristlet Route Indicator", and it dates back to 1927.

[cosmodisk → rikkipitt]

When I was a little kid I wanted a computer so bad that I was even thinking to build a box with some sort of changing "screen" that'd be a roll of paper with some images attached to it. Turns out I wasn't that crazy.

[atorodius → cosmodisk]

Ha, I did the same. Built little casings in LEGOs. Good times