9 Predictions By Sci-Fi Movies That Eerily Came True
7. The Smartwatch (Star Trek)
The original Star Trek movie series is one of countless sci-fi franchises to depict a wristwatch-meets-walkie-talkie device, like the one famously used by Captain James Tiberius Kirk to communicate with his shipmates.
When Samsung released its first smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear in 2013, it acknowledged that similar gadgets have been cropping up in movies since the '40s, though Captain Kirk is responsible for making a generation of kids want one.
The ability to take calls via your wrist became a reality in the last few years when the Apple Watch and certain Android Wear devices introduced the feature.