posted on Friday, June 20, 2003 5:54 PM
by
Sean Gerety
SPOT and Mercedes
Well, today I thought that I was going to go "See SPOT run". Unfortunately the real thing was not there, but I did get to see this presentation and get some details.
The watch itself is very much like a PDA, you pay about 60 dollars a year for the service. Service is provided in about 100 cities to start with, and I would imagine more later. The SPOT watch receives information from an unused portion of the FM signal (that's what the rep told me). A watch goes from $100 to about $300. It looks pretty interesting and I'll definitely take a look at the real thing this fall.
The watch will provide the following services:
- Time - with a variety of face styles
- News
- Weather
- Stocks
- Calendar - updated from Outlook
- MSN Messenger messages
- Dining Info - Coming Soon
- Sports - Coming Soon
- Movie Finder - Coming Soon
- Traffic - Coming Soon
- Games - Coming Soon
I will say the best thing about the event was sitting in a Kompressor and getting to ride on a track like I was in a Bond movie. That was very cool. Now if I could only afford one of those beauties. I'll throw some pictures up on Monday.