Fantastic invention

Jake is struggling through an airport terminal with two huge and
obviously heavy suitcases when Bill Gates walks up to him and asks: "Have you got the time?" Jake sighs, not recognizing Mr. Gates, puts down the suitcases and glances at his wrist. "It's a quarter to six", he says. "Hey, that's a pretty fancy watch!" exclaims Mr. Gates.

Jake brightens a little. "Yeah, it's not bad. Check this out..." He
shows him a time zone display for every time zone in the world. He hits a few buttons and from somewhere on the watch a voice says "The time is
eleven till six" in a very West Texas accent. A few more buttons and the same voice says something in Japanese. Jake continues "I've put in regional accents for each city. The display is unbelievably high quality and the voice is simply astounding." Bill Gates is dumb struck with
admiration.

"That's not all...", says Jake. He pushes a few more buttons and a tiny
but very hi-resolution map of New York City appears on the display. "The
flashing dot shows our location by satellite positioning," explains Jake.
"View recede ten", Jake says, and the display changes to show eastern
New York state. "I want to buy this watch!" says Bill Gates, thinking of
the potential profits after his engineers tear it apart and then market it
throughout the world.

"Oh, no, it's not ready for sale yet; I'm still working out the bugs",
says the inventor. "But look at this", and he proceeds to demonstrate
that "the watch is also a very creditable little FM radio receiver with a
digital tuner, a sonar device that can measure distances up to 125
meters, a pager with thermal paper printout and, most impressive of all, the capacity for voice recordings of up to 300 standard-size books, though I only have 32 of my favorites in there so far" says Jake.

"I've got to have this watch!" says Bill Gates, becoming insane with
desire. "No, you don't understand; it's not ready." "I'll give you
$1,000 for it!" "Oh, no, I've already spent more than..." "I'll give you
$5,000 for it!" "But it's just not..." "I'll give you $15,000 in cash
for it!" And Bill Gates pulls out his bulging wallet. Jake stops to think.
He's only put about $8,500 into materials and development, and with
$15,000 he can make another one and have it ready for merchandising in maybe a year or so....Bill Gates frantically waves the cash in front of Jake: "Here it is, right here and now, $15,000! Take it or leave it!"

Jake abruptly makes his decision: "Okay," he agrees as he peels off the
watch and hands it to the stranger. They make the exchange and Bill
Gates prances happily away. "Hey, wait a minute", calls Jake after the
stranger.

Bill Gates turns around and says: "What?"

Jake points to the two heavy suitcases he had been trying to wrestle
through the terminal. "Don't forget your batteries."