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Microsoft SPOT Watches
Octagon Most writes "PocketPCThoughts has a report from a graphic designer who worked on wristwatches using Microsoft's SPOT. Tons of design images here and a soon-to-ship model from Suunto here. Data plans from MSN Direct will be USD$9.95 per month. This is the coolest vapor from Microsoft in a long time. It's geeky _and_ stylish!" Our older story about the watches also notes that since it's a proprietary service, when the service provider decides to stop providing it, the device becomes useless.
Notice in this picture - it shows MSFT stock is down. Nice marketing images designer >:-)
This image shows the watch, complete with BSOD. Sorry - I saw it, had to comment...
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Whoa.. I completely misread this.. I thought it said Microsoft STOP Watches.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those!!! (shoot me)
But sheesh, do we really need any more inaccurate stopwatches? I already incorrectly measured gravitational acceleration as 3.1415 M/S^2 thanks to my piece of crud watch... Give me Timex any day.
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hey, remember those C:\ C:\DOS\run run DOS run jokes? Now we can do C:\SPOT jokes!
...Does it tell time?
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For a second I thought the design images link had misdirected me to a fark photoshop contest. That âoeyouâ(TM)ve got maleâ was particularly pukey. I just donâ(TM)t think it's proper to learn of a birth from your watch.
But can you talk to K.I.T.T through it to get you out of tough scrapes with a blast of TurboBoost?
"3. why does teh guy in the picture look so dorky?"
he hs a watch that you need a service provider for, what did you expect? at least pock protectors are ^H^H^H were practical and usefull.
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...Microsoft Bob's dog?
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pr0n at the flick of the wrist. heh. sorry, just couldn't resist. But seriously though, "flick, flick flick, flick" for each "image". ;) and plus its for geeks so, even better!
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If they used an open standard(does not mean open source), then other companies could pick up if the original one stopped providing serve. :)
Yeah. And just as easily, L33T H@X0R from down the street could broadcast "pirate" signals to hack the time, stock quotes, weather settings...
Though I do figure it would be funny if someone hacked the MSFT stock ticker to "+100" while displaying the weather in Hell, MI as 27/snowy
Check out that page from the SPOT page, and dig that quote :
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"This is the next evolutionary step in personal computing."
- Bill Mitchell
Corp Vice President,
Microsoft
No ? Really ? Messrs Microsoft, you should at least find someone who doesn't work for you to praise your products. We're certain Bill Mitchell is genuinely impressed by SPOT, from the bottom of his heart, but in any case it's not like he's ever going to say SPOT sucks toilet water as long as he's one of your employees. This quote is so useless it makes you wonder about the rest of the product
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Now I can look down at my watch and see "1 H4X0r'd U! YuR 5P0+ iz m4 b17c|-| N0w!"
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Person A: "Hey, what time is it?"
Person B: "Time for you to get a watch...that tells time!!!"
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http://torsion.org/witten/watch.jpg
Outside of these areas? Sorry. Stuck in the subway or the Lincoln Tunnel where FM signals can't reach? Too bad. Should have brought a back-up watch just in case SPOT can't latch on to a signal, maybe one of those $1.99 LCD Toy Story II watches you get with purchase of a Happy Meal and a medium beverage.
On the other hand, there's the possibility of some real fun for someone who has the know-how to cobble together a low power FM transmitter that can broadcast on the SPOT sideband.
"Hang on, I've got to check my mess...Holy Mother of Goatse.cx!"
Damn. Now I hope these things really take off.
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"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
for these things. They could keep the watch busy 24x7 just reporting security breaches and bug fixes in Microsoft products! Flexstrat
Well, I hope they do a better job than they do tracking email. I'm STILL waiting for Bill to send me some rich stuff.
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might be a trite question but did anyone notice if they put a restart button on the thing?