The Spy Kids movies have the exact vibe of when you and your friends are running around in the backyard creating an elaborate story based entirely around whatever random nonsense happens to be lying around. This empty happy meal box is a computer. If I spin this bop-it the right way it will unlock the secret door. We have to get to the jets! (The jets are the swings). My little sister says her pigtails spin around and let her fly and we all agree with that. These swim goggles let me see through walls. There are a series of stepping stones leading to a big rock in the middle of the garden. The rock is the office of the Head Spy and the dirt is actually a bottomless pit, so you have to be careful when you jump across. The bad guys have disabled all our weapons but my necklace is actually a secret super cool weapon that works anyway! There’s logic and continuity but only as much as a bunch of five-to-twelve year olds can keep straight without bothering to keep notes or look up any science facts they don’t already happen to know. This is not a complaint.
The Seiko UC-2000 was one of the first "smart watches" to hit the market in 1984. The watch itself could store up to 2k data, perform calculator functions, and, of course, tell time.
The UC-2200 (bottom image) was an external keyboard dock that offered additional computer functionalities with its spool-fed printer, 4K of RAM and a 26K of ROM via a plug-in Application ROM pack (Microsoft Basic) – other ROM packs had games or an English to Japanese translation app.
Director Robert Rodriguez sat down with @overchers to chat about Spy Kids, making films with his kids, empowering youth through storytelling, and the origin of thumb thumbs.
Spy kids is such a fever dream of a movie in hindsight. It’s so funny. Literally every single aspect of it is absolute bullshit to the point where it ends up working out perfectly fine because your disbelief is suspended within the first two minutes of the movie