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Microsoft Shows Off Watch, Portable Media Player

Posted by timothy on from the like-the-rumored-video-ipod dept.

gmt-time points to this New York Times article with a report from the in-progress Consumer Electronics Show, excerpting "Microsoft, continuing its effort to extend its reach beyond computers, today introduced designs for a new class of watch that gives more than the time and a pocket audio and video player." According to the article, several manufacturers are committed to producing both the watches (mentioned yesterday as well) and the audio/video players. I wonder if they'll play Ogg Vorbis and my DivX;) files ...

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  1. The comments I've read so far state... by AtariDatacenter · · Score: 3, Informative

    Why not get a Timex Pager Watch?

  2. Patent Issues by Fict · · Score: 3, Informative

    I believe that nintendo's video game watches should be cited as prior art.

  3. Re:FM Network? by Cpt_Kirks · · Score: 3, Informative

    They will be using one of the subcarriers on the FM broadcast signals, like they do with elevator music.

    Pirating the signal should be a fairly easy hack, as long as the encryption is not too strong.

  4. Re:No! Trustworthy Wrists host watch. by damiam · · Score: 3, Informative

    They used the cores of the BSD and Mach kernels to design their own kernel. The rest of the system (except for the BSD/GNU shell tools) is completely theirs. Probably 95% of OS X code was written by Apple.

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