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As people toss their old wrist watches for cell phones and other time-keeping gadgets, the Thousand Watch Project takes them in to create an illustrative display of this moment in time.
Once upon a time, there were wristwatches but their time has come and gone. Cellphones have made watches passé but, as Living on Earth’s Bruce Gellerman reports, The Thousand Watch Project hopes to preserve them…for all time.