Why you really have to switch off SPOT watches while flying
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SPOT watches must be switched off for
flying
SPOT watches must be switched off for
flying
01/16/2004 10:57 AMOne thing we hadn't realized about those new SPOT watches: because
they have an FM radio receiver built-in, the radio has to be switched
off...
The first five SPOT watches
The first five SPOT watches
01/02/2004 05:00 PMThere's a listing on Microsoft's website of the five different SPOT,
or Smart Personal Object Technology, watches which are supposed to hit
stores soon. As...
Microsoft Spot watches delayed
Microsoft Spot watches delayed
11/17/2003 06:55 AMThe Register Nov 17 2003 6:31AM ET
Microsoft SPOT Watches Hit Stores
Microsoft SPOT Watches Hit Stores
12/16/2003 06:31 PMMicrosoft's Spot watches run slow
Microsoft's Spot watches run slow
11/18/2003 09:16 AMComputer Weekly Nov 18 2003 8:08AM ET
Microsoft launches SPOT Watches at CES
2004
Microsoft launches SPOT Watches at CES
2004
12/20/2003 01:30 AMI4U Dec 20 2003 0:11AM ET
Microsoft, Partners Delay SPOT Watches
Microsoft, Partners Delay SPOT Watches
11/16/2003 09:20 AMMicrosoft, Partners Delay SPOT Watches
(extremetech)
Microsoft, Partners Delay SPOT Watches
(extremetech)
11/17/2003 02:06 AMAnalysts spot slump in LAN switch market
Analysts spot slump in LAN switch market
08/20/2004 12:11 PMBut the overall market should still show growth over the year,
researchers say.
Man Happier About Switch To Mac Than
Switch To Christianity
Man Happier About Switch To Mac Than
Switch To Christianity
06/15/2004 10:01 AMWho WATCHES movies?
Who WATCHES movies?
09/09/2004 07:19 AM
Cory Doctorow:
The sterling satirists of Loading Ready Run have produced a sharp,
funny and amazingly true short film in response to the "Who makes
movies?" anti-piracy spots that we're subjected to before we see our
$10-13 flicks.
This spot, called "Who watches movies?" and features a graphic
designer talking about how grossly offensive it is to pay a stack of
money, sit through interminable advertisements, then be lectured at in
a film made by some distant coked-up Hollyweird fatcat.
4.4MB MP4 Link
(Thanks, Paul!)
Martian Watches
Martian Watches
01/09/2004 09:57 PM 24:39 NASA is running their Spirit Martian explorer program on
Martian solar time. With the project day running 39 minutes longer
than a real day, engineers found they faced difficulties adjusting to
this virtual timezone. Their solution was nearly as old as
timekeeping itself.
IT industry watches Iowa
IT industry watches Iowa
01/19/2004 07:17 AMZDNet Jan 19 2004 12:01PM GMT
Evergreen MP3 Watches For Couples
Evergreen MP3 Watches For Couples
04/15/2005 09:58 AM
Evergreen's new "EG-MPW256CII" offers absolutely nothing
over previous MP3 watches, except for perhaps style. Whether
or not you determine the style of the watch to be appealing is
unrelated. Evergreen offers blue and pink versions of the watch
"intended for couples." It will play audio from its 256MB of internal
memory for about 10 hours. Let's hope Evergreen was smart enough to
give it a second battery for keeping the time.
Product
Information [Shanghai Donya]
Bespoke martian watches keep 24h, 39m
day
Bespoke martian watches keep 24h, 39m
day
01/09/2004 09:56 PM
Researchers working on the Mars lander are rising and sleeping on
Martian Standard Time, the daylight hours on the lander's plot of
Mars. The martian day is 24h, 39m long -- which means that the rover
crew had to get custom-made timepieces (for "had to," here, read,
"thought it would be really cool to") manufactured for them by a
master watchmaker.
My next novel, Eastern Standard Tribe, (due out in just a few weeks!)
revolves around the way that your sleep schedule determines a lot
about your social circle and hence your beliefs, alliegances, and so
forth. A friend of mine in DC who used to work for the CIA just read
the book and wrote to point out that the military has been running
timezone-tribes for years, so that all the people commanding and
supporting some distant operational unit are rising and sleeping on a
schedule synched with daylight hours in some far corner.
But I bet they don't get cool watches like this one -- someone should
manufacture and sell 'em. My sleep-schedule is so scr0d that I would
happily wear this thing and abide by what it told me about my
circadian.
Link
(via MeFi)
Big Brother watches Britain
Big Brother watches Britain
09/01/2004 09:13 PMMartian Watches | Metafilter
Martian Watches | Metafilter
01/11/2004 03:51 AMMartian Watches .. Metafilter
metafilter.com/mefi/30640
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site | 4 links
Retro Nintendo Watches
Retro Nintendo Watches
06/06/2005 12:09 AM
Some of my favorite
childhood memories involved these big jars of tamales that my dad
would buy and that I'd make and eat in bulk coupled with a few minutes
of LCD gaming goodness on my old Pac Man watch. As a result, I was a
pretty fat kid. Well, I can relive those artery clogging days with
these retro watches feature 'tenda favorites like Donkey Kong, Zelda,
and G.I. Joe (?). As a rule, these things last about five days before
something cracks and then you're out of luck, but it's nice to
recapture those low-fi days of yore in these trying times.
Plus, we like anything that shows a little pale belly skin.
Retro Nintendo watches with playable games
[T3]
Watches watch pilots
Watches watch pilots
06/30/2004 12:56 PMglobetechnology.com Jun 30 2004 5:37PM GMT
Jack Watches Your Back
Jack Watches Your Back
05/17/2004 01:34 PMJack Chick's tract has become inflamed by homosexuals. "I believe the
time will soon come when godless judges will close churches that call
being gay a sin." (05-16)
ADV:MSN Direct for Computer Watches
ADV:MSN Direct for Computer Watches
12/19/2004 02:54 PMAd - www.microsoft.com Dec 17 2004 9:11PM GMT
CNN.com - Big Brother watches Britain -
Aug 31, 2004
CNN.com - Big Brother watches Britain -
Aug 31, 2004
09/04/2004 03:05 AMCNN.com - Big Brother watches Britain - Aug 31, 2004 .. Quote: ..
:
cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/08/31/constantsurveillance.ap/index.htmltrack
this site | 3 links
'In Europe you have watches but in
Africa we have time'
'In Europe you have watches but in
Africa we have time'
01/03/2005 08:23 AMSo get in your car and wait
Spyware watches 'every keystroke'
Spyware watches 'every keystroke'
12/22/2003 08:55 PMCanadian Press via Canada.com Dec 22 2003 7:07PM ET
Time Is Now for High Tech Watches
Time Is Now for High Tech Watches
09/27/2004 04:41 AMG4 Tech TV Sep 27 2004 8:24AM GMT
Dog Drives Off As Owner Watches Hockey
(AP)
Dog Drives Off As Owner Watches Hockey
(AP)
09/15/2004 08:53 PMAP - An exuberant dog left in a truck while the owner watched Canada
win the World Cup of Hockey managed to throw the vehicle into gear and
coast down a city hill.
Have Your Kid Read This Item As She
Watches TV And Uses The Computer
Have Your Kid Read This Item As She
Watches TV And Uses The Computer
03/28/2005 12:56 PMAdweek Online Mar 28 2005 5:04PM GMT
Smart watches tell Microsoft time
Smart watches tell Microsoft time
12/17/2003 08:27 AMZDNet UK Dec 17 2003 7:38AM ET
Tissot offers MSN Direct watches
Tissot offers MSN Direct watches
07/26/2004 07:15 PMSwiss luxury watchmaker Tissot SA has joined Fossil Inc. of the U.S.
and Finland's Suunto Oy in offering watches that use Microsoft Corp.'s
Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT), Microsoft said Monday.
Spying software watches you work
Spying software watches you work
04/29/2004 06:29 AMSpyware is rampant on computers in US businesses, a survey has found.
Alan Reiter on MSN watches: they will
suck
Alan Reiter on MSN watches: they will
suck
01/23/2004 02:20 PMDo those MSN SPOT watches stand a chance? Mobile data pundit Alan
Reiter says (
this) (
and this),
summarized by BB reader John Troyer:
- They're big and ugly
- They need to be recharged daily
- They crash and sometimes die when shocked with static
electricity
- They have to be turned off on planes
- Coverage is spotty compared to pagers and mobile phones
- News blurbs are 25-word useless snippets
- You have to tell MSN when and where you are traveling for it to
work away from your home area!
- Nobody's *ever* made money selling generic headlines, weather and
sports via wireless.
Reiter also says:
"However, syncing with MS Outlook is useful, and Reiter
does believe they could catch on if Microsoft repositions to emphasize
the fun aspects: downloadable watch faces, games, etc. ... [The
watches] look as if they were designed by the Borg, on a very bad day.
Many years ago Motorola introduced its first pager watch, I was there.
I was pretty excited about the product. But when I spoke with a
Motorola executive, he said the company wasn't sure whether the target
market would view the device as a smallest, sexiest pager or as the
world's ugliest watch. Unfortunately for Motorola, the view was the
latter. Pager watches have generally died quick or lingering deaths.
But the operative word is "death."
Link to earlier BoingBoing entry on MSN SPOT Watches
Microsoft MSN wireless watches released
Microsoft MSN wireless watches released
01/23/2004 12:11 AMBoingBoing pal
Mike Outmesguine
(/OUT-mess-geen/) says:
These are neat rechargeable watches that feed you weather, headlines,
etc. just like your alphanumeric pager did back in 1993. Ironically,
I saw the ad on Weather.com. Coverage is sparse. It took me a couple
tries on the zip to find the coverage near Los Angeles (hint: 91301
bad, 90066 good.) I have no idea what it's like elsewhere. (I hate
zipcode lookup applets that don't give you proximity.) Microsoft MSN
site showing all the watches: link. Fossil site
for the Dick Tracy watch: link. From the website:
"MSNR Direct is a specialized wireless service that delivers
personalized information through enabled watches. Smart Watches with
MSN Direct provide you timely, glanceable information conveniently
available at the flick of the wrist. Receive accurate time and stay
connected to the information that matters most to you including news,
weather, sports, stocks, personal messages, appointment reminders, and
more. Find everything from a stock quote to the latest sports scores
of your favorite team all with a simple glance!"
Sparse details on actual services provided (no games, mp3s or
ringtones, apparently), Services include news, weather, stock quotes,
appointment reminders, and personal messages. I don't know if I'll
give up my Tokyo Flash
watch just yet. Maybe I can go retro 80's
multi-watch.
linkBoardbug Baby Monitor Watches
Boardbug Baby Monitor Watches
08/11/2004 09:58 AM
The Boardbug is a watch-like
baby monitor that has two distinct modes. In the first "baby" mode,
the devices work like a traditional baby monitor, broadcasting audio
from the child's unit to the parent's and even sounding a warning
buzzer if the baby outsmarts the latch and takes the unit off. Plus it
has a built in thermometer to monitor temperature levels in the baby's
room.
The "toddler" mode takes all those features and adds on a
proximity-based "safety range" and a panic button, which sounds a
startling klaxon so you can easily determine which freeway your child
is playing in, but sadly does nothing for the periodic anxiety attacks
that come from realizing you've got 16 more years of this shit.
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RFID everywhere--dogs, watches, kids
RFID everywhere--dogs, watches, kids
07/23/2004 04:29 PMZDNet Jul 23 2004 7:34PM GMT
Smart Watches for MSN Direct Ship to
Retail
Smart Watches for MSN Direct Ship to
Retail
01/08/2004 07:34 PMSmart Watches for MSN® Direct are now shipping for broad retail
availability, as announced by Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief
Software Architect Bill Gates during his keynote address at the 2004
International Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
Michael Moore watches the media watching
him
Michael Moore watches the media watching
him
07/28/2004 01:02 PMGrizzled Nevada Sentinel Watches as Town
Withers
Grizzled Nevada Sentinel Watches as Town
Withers
06/26/2004 11:01 AMOnce a great mining center, Goldfield, Nev., is now a crumbling
carcass, a near ghost town of 300 people.
MSN Direct Kicks Off Football Content
for Smart Watches
MSN Direct Kicks Off Football Content
for Smart Watches
09/01/2004 01:41 PMJust in time for football season, Microsoft Corp. today added football
content, including scores, standings, statistics and game information
for the 2004--2005 season, to the MSN® Direct sports channel.
NetCrunch watches heterogeneous networks
from a single console
NetCrunch watches heterogeneous networks
from a single console
06/12/2004 04:40 AMWhat are you using to monitor your heterogeneous, NetWare-centric
network? Do you need a few minutes to create a list of the products
you use? If so, how would you like to be able to monitor the whole
network from one console? If that sounds like a good idea, read on.
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