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Now How Am I Going to Operate My Digital Watch?
At this months Weblogger Meetup I got to try out a MSN Direct wireless watch. It was owned by a Microsoft employee who works in the division responsible for it. He also had a 12-inch Tablet PC.
I don't see myself going out and getting one but I was able to figure out the interface by just a few button presses. It was an interesting experience reading AP press articles wirelessly on a watch. They are not small by any definition of the word but they are not as bulky as what I have been lead to believe. I was impressed at how legible the display was and I would not want to read War and Peace on one but I was able to do what I needed. It still cost as much as a PDA at 200 bucks but it's owner attested that he can use it for about a five days without having to recharge the battery That is a bit too much for a watch but if the format survives it should be interesting to see what it is like in a couple years. I let the Microsoftie play with my NeoGeo Pocket while I surfed around on his watch.
I have a ten dollar drugstore no-name generic digital watch. It tells the time and date and that is what I need it to do. I have to wonder what Douglas Adams of The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy would think of this latest tech gadget out of Redmond WA.
You are a nerd if you get the title of this post.
Jake at April 22, 2004 
Nerd
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Aw crap I'm a nerd. Oh wait, I already knew that. Technically I'm a geek.
I'm still not sold on any digital delivery service that sends me news stories to my watch/phone/pda. What news story is so important that I need it know about it right now? IM's I can see, but that's just an extension of SMS or heck just a phone call. I'd rather get a phone call than an IM that I can't answer.
The biggest complaint I've heard about them (besides that the novelty wears off) is that the news stories are so edited that you really don't glean any information from them.
Posted by: Scott at April 22, 2004 1:18 PM
I used to use AvantGo( http://www.avantgo.com ) with my palm PDA alot. It was pretty cool. The great thing about it is that it was almost 100% accurate from the origional source story.
Posted by: Jake of 8bitjoystick.com at April 22, 2004 1:44 PM
Thanks for letting me try out the NeoGeo and for trying out the watch.
Posted by: Tom Harpel at April 22, 2004 6:35 PM
Yeah, I use AvantGo now on my Palm. I've been using JPlucker to pull RSS feeds from the web onto my Palm and read them during my workday commute.
Posted by: Scott at April 22, 2004 9:00 PM
Yup, nerd here too... Or maybe I just have a fascination with digital watches.. ;)
Posted by: J.P. at April 23, 2004 12:58 AM
