They've been a thing for years now, so we don't see them as being the cyberpunk toys they really are anymore. If anything, we see them as actual toys.
But go back to 2002 and tell people that they'll be able to buy a watch that can connect to the Internet, play HD video, store thousands of songs, and hold video calls by the next decade and you'd be put in a straitjacket, or be named Ray Kurzweil. And to an 8 year old in 2002, a video watch would be the coolest thing ever. Hell, a video phone would be the coolest thing ever.
Nowadays? Meh.
That being said, I'm about to own one. Mostly for convenience and for exercise, but also for novelty. I'm also going to own a virtual reality headset. And a humanoid robot. So suck it, young me.
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