The Simpsons Episode · 1995
Characters use wrist-based communicators years before modern smartwatches.
What Really Happened · 2015
The Apple Watch launched in 2015 and became the best-selling wearable device in history.
2015
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Set in the year 2010, 'Lisa's Wedding' shows Lisa's English fiancé Hugh wearing a wristwatch that doubles as a two-way communicator — voice calls placed directly from the wrist, treated as entirely mundane background technology. Apple Watch launched in April 2015, Samsung Gear followed, and by 2024 over 200 million smartwatches were sold annually, making the wrist the dominant secondary personal screen. The writers drew the device twenty years before the product launch.
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foreshadowed real-world events. This prediction appeared in S06E19 ("Lisa's Wedding"), which aired in 1995.
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