A dog named spot [smart personal objects technology watch]

This article presents the Microsoft SPOT, or smart personal objects technology, a US $129 to $299 digital wristwatch from watchmakers Fossil Inc., Richardson, Texas, and Suunto Oy, Vantaa, Finland. The smart watch gives you weather, stock quotes, sports scores, headline news, one-way instant messages, outlook calendar reminders, and finally, the time and date. Watches deliver and display SPOT content broadcast over a Microsoft network at about 12 Kb/s.