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Apollo Landing Keypad Shrunken into Coolest Calculator Watch


A British startup managed to shrink the Apollo Guidance Computer down to the size of an Apple Watch.

Well, a full 55 years after the spaceflight that landed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface, a company has managed to shrink down the Apollo computer in another way. The DSKY (short for “Display and Keyboard”) Moonwatch, shares the same interface as the briefcase-sized computers that were on board the Apollo program modules. The creators involved in the project tapped the original design specs from the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory to shrink down the panel and create a wearable replica.

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