{"id":8574,"date":"2015-04-21T16:29:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T15:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midastouch.goldgenie.com\/?p=8574"},"modified":"2015-04-21T16:29:06","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T15:29:06","slug":"rewind-to-the-future-introducing-the-diy-apple-ii-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/rewind-to-the-future-introducing-the-diy-apple-ii-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Rewind to the Future &#8211; Introducing the DIY Apple II Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8575\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Apple-II-Watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8575\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Apple-Two-Watch.jpg\" alt=\"Apple II Watch, Image Source: Instructables.com\" width=\"620\" height=\"464\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8575\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apple II Watch, Image Source: Instructables.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t wait any longer for the Apple Watch or are looking for something a little more retro, we have found the perfect solution for you. \u00a0A genius who goes by the name <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/member\/Aleator777\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aleator777<\/a> has posted the most wonderful retro invention alongside instructions to make it on Techy DIY website <a title=\"Apple II Watch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Apple-II-Watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.instructables.com<\/a>. With a nod back to the Apple Macintosh desktop computers of the 80s, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Apple-II-Watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple II Watch<\/a>\u00a0features\u00a0a sturdy square greyish beige plastic square frame, green and black digital screen and storage in the form of two miniature disc drives. \u00a0It also hosts an array of useful functions\u00a0including text, a speaker and scrolling knob.<\/p>\n<p>Humorously introduced as a new piece of technology set to launch in 1985, it is worth visiting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Apple-II-Watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple II Watch<\/a>\u00a0page to for the retro description alone, never mind the instructions but it might be worth downloading the those\u00a0too to try your hand at creating this charming little piece of wearable technology. \u00a0And if you succeed in doing so, we are always ready to Gold-plate it for you! : )<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tCYn9drHx2E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can&#8217;t wait any longer for the Apple Watch or are looking for something a little more retro, we<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[157,425,917,1329,1524,1646],"class_list":["post-8574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random","tag-apple-watch","tag-diy","tag-inventions","tag-retro","tag-technology","tag-wearable-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}