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Thursday, January 09, 2003
Gates unveils smart wrist watches - James Niccolai, InfoWorld
Bill Gates kicked off the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Wednesday evening by unveiling the first products based on a futuristic technology that can turn everyday items into "smart objects" that receive information through the airwaves. Three leading watch makers will offer wrist watches by the end of the year that make use of the smart technology, which uses a part of the FM radio spectrum to feed the devices with a low-bandwidth but continuous stream of data, the Microsoft chairman and chief software architect said. The technology can deliver what Gates termed "glanceable" information to the devices such as a weather report, news about traffic conditions or short text messages from friends. He also showed a magnetic device that can be stuck to a refrigerator or a car dashboard to display sports results or a stock ticker.
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