The Sega IR7000 Communicator

This is the Sega Communicator. It’s a really neat gadget that came out in the middle of the 90s. 1994 to be exact, this little gadget was part of the IR7000 series. I still remember seeing commercials with these little gadgets being used especially in class as two classmates would message each other without the teacher noticing. I guess this is texting before there was texting. It caught on for a bit but it ended up being more of a fad that was eventually outdone by the next popular toy. This one I own is a Sega brand and really cool although it doesn’t work! A friend of mine is actually working on it and got it working again although he has a couple of things left to fix, he said he is going to let me know when it’s ready. I am excited! I will have an update when I get it back.