Samsung Spot for Smart Watch Sees Big View Numbers

From Dick Tracy and Inspector Gadget to Samsung's new gizmo

The future has arrived, according to a recent spot for Samsung's Galaxy Gear smart watch. But new technology is influenced by the past, even if that history is the stuff of movies and TV series.

The Samsung video shows a handful of high-tech and—at least at the time—futuristic watches from fictional storylines like Inspector Gadget, Dick Tracy and Star Trek. And according to VidIQ data, the electronics company's video is a hit: it racked up 9.3

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