'The Wizard' Made Me Long for a Wearable Future
The author reflects on the 1989 film 'The Wizard,' a Nintendo commercial disguised as a movie, and how its prominent display of the Power Glove ignited a childhood fascination with wearable technology. Despite the Power Glove being a commercially poor product, its appearance in the film, particularly used by the 'bad-boy' villain, made it an aspirational item that foreshadowed the future of wearables like Fitbits.
The Power Glove’s one-minute-plus cameo in 1989’s The Wizard wasn’t the first time wearable tech made a splash in pop culture, but it’s the one that got me and countless others hooked on wearables nearly two decades before we ever bought our first Fitbits .
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