{"product_id":"sony-watchman-fd-20-gizmo","title":"Sony Watchman FD-20","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1982, a television was still a piece of furniture. Then Sony introduced the Watchman, and suddenly you could watch the news on your commute.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe FD-20 was part of the second generation of Watchman models, released around 1983-84, refining the revolutionary concept Sony had introduced with the original FD-210. Its two-inch black and white screen seems impossibly small by modern standards, but getting any picture at all into something this slim required extraordinary engineering. The secret was Sony's flat CRT - a cathode ray tube with the electron gun mounted at 90 degrees to the screen, firing sideways across a curved phosphor surface. This rotated architecture was the only way to make a CRT thin enough to fit in your pocket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe name was a portmanteau - \"Watch\" from watching television, \"man\" from the Walkman that had transformed portable audio three years earlier. Sony was betting they could do for television what they'd done for music. The Watchman line would run for almost two decades, spawning over 65 models before LCD technology and digital broadcasting finally made the concept obsolete. But in the mid-1980s, pulling this silver rectangle from your jacket and tuning into live television felt like science fiction made real.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Axisophy","offers":[{"title":"Large (50 × 70 cm | 20 × 28 in)","offer_id":45864088436897,"sku":"AXS-GIZ-SONFD20-P-500x700-AM-COL","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"XLarge (70 × 100 cm | 28 × 40 in)","offer_id":45864088469665,"sku":"AXS-GIZ-SONFD20-P-700x1000-AM-COL","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0483\/1546\/5889\/files\/Axisophy-Sony-Watchman-print.jpg?v=1767884650","url":"https:\/\/axisophy.com\/products\/sony-watchman-fd-20-gizmo","provider":"Axisophy","version":"1.0","type":"link"}