Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Wearable Monitoring (20 Nov 2002) Technology and watches are hardly new to each other - the idea of a self winding wristwatch can be traced back to a patent granted in 1780, although it didn’t come into production until 1924. But with the advent of the post World War 2 spy era, wristwatch technology came to symbolise being one step ahead of the competition. In the 1950s detective series Dick Tracy, had a two-way communicating watch, and any James Bond film is not complete without some highly advanced ideas in wristwatch development… if a little impractical - but is it? Article URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/connect_20021120.shtml   29.15    (Connect)   Read 169 more articles from BBC Radio 4 sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Avoid the mouse trap This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy