Re: [SCOUTED] Microsoft unveils smart watches, players

[Jon Gabriel]

From: Ronn! Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [SCOUTED] Microsoft unveils smart watches, players
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 07:57:25 -0600

At 02:03 PM 1/10/03 +0100, J. van Baardwijk wrote:

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (Reuters) -- Trying to move its software from desktops to people's hands and pockets, Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled plans for a portable media player and a radio-linked wristwatch.

All I want to know is what good a watch will be when it crashes and has to be reset ten times a day, usually when it's busiest, like right before it sounds the alarm for you to get up, make a meeting, or get to the airport to catch your flight . . .

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/01/09/microsoft.watch.reut/index.html

So, what will come after the Microsoft Wristwatch? Microsoft buys the United Kingdom and replaces Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) with Microsoft Mean Time (MMT)? <GRIN>

You're telling us you've never heard of the "Swatch Beat"?


(I'll even give you the URL:  <http:///>www.swatch.<http:///>com)

I couldn't find it on their site, but I did find it here:

http://www.swatch-shop.co.uk/beatrange.htm
Excerpt: Swatch has created a new universal time. -  Beat Time.
The 24 hours of a day are divided into 1000 beats:  1 beat = 1minute 26.4 seconds.
Internet time is displayed by @ and three digits, ranging from @000 to @999.
The internet day starts at midnight (wintertime) in Biel Switzerland, the home of Swatch.
No more time zones. - No more borders. - No geographical differences

I'd never heard of it.
Jon


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