{"id":1712,"date":"2006-10-29T03:38:12","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T10:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/29\/calculator-watch\/"},"modified":"2006-10-29T03:38:12","modified_gmt":"2006-10-29T10:38:12","slug":"calculator-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/29\/calculator-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"calculator watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to wikipedia it was the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wrist_watch\"> first World War that brought the wrist watch into wide use<\/a>. Only sixty years later people tought that it would be a brilliant idea to have a <a href=\"http:\/\/watchismo.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/calculating-history-of-led-calculator.html\"> calculator in your wrist watch<\/a>. 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