{"id":4510,"date":"2016-06-23T23:52:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T15:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/23\/tbt-this-1990s-watch-tried-to-change-time-but-failed\/"},"modified":"2016-06-23T23:52:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T15:52:24","slug":"tbt-this-1990s-watch-tried-to-change-time-but-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/23\/tbt-this-1990s-watch-tried-to-change-time-but-failed\/","title":{"rendered":"#TBT: This 1990s watch tried to change time but failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fstory%2fthumbnail%2f12536%2fhttps_3a_2f_2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com_2fuploads_2fcard_2fimage_2f125301_2fseq.00_00_29_21.still001_2\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/bhfwGt5whiZHFL7-2bOR3TdCJEE=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fstory%2Fthumbnail%2F12536%2Fhttps_3A_2F_2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com_2Fuploads_2Fcard_2Fimage_2F125301_2Fseq.00_00_29_21.Still001_2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=%23TBT%3A+This+1990s+watch+tried+to+change+time+but+failed&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F23%2Fswatch-beats-watch-tbt%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F23%2Fswatch-beats-watch-tbt%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In this week&#8217;s episode of <i>Throwback Tech, <\/i>we take a look at the Swatch Beats watch that never caught on.\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">The Swiss watch company&#8217;s invention runs on Internet time, but no it wasn&#8217;t referring to how much time you spent on reddit. \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Instead of dividing the virtual and real day into 24 hours and 60 minutes per hour, the watch divides the day into 1000 &#8220;beats,&#8221; with each beat measuring one minute and 26.4 seconds. Very easy to see why it didn&#8217;t catch on.\u00a0<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/23\/swatch-beats-watch-tbt\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/watch\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Watch<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/tech-innovators\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Tech Innovators<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/tbt\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Tbt<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Tech<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/gadgets\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Gadgets<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/jWw7VsI32-w\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&#8217;s episode of Throwback Tech, we take a look at the Swatch Beats watch that never caught on.\u00a0The Swiss watch company&#8217;s invention runs on Internet time, but no it wasn&#8217;t referring to how much time you spent on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/23\/tbt-this-1990s-watch-tried-to-change-time-but-failed\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[726,3471,725,3470,3469],"class_list":["post-4510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-gadgets","tag-tbt","tag-tech","tag-tech-innovators","tag-watch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}