Dick's Gadget Warehouse - Smart Watches Are Nothing New.

This is Sunno Model which cost about $300.It was at CES 2003 that I saw my first SPOT Smart watch. They were called SPOT watches because they used Microsoft's Smart Personal Objects Technology. They could receive information like weather, stock reports, sports scores, horoscopes, etc. over the air via FM radio frequencies. It was an interesting technology, but I still liked my Timex DataLink better for my needs which included uploading info to the watch via USB. You couldn’t do that with the SPOT watches and they had a couple of other drawbacks. They were expensive and they were pretty large. You also had to subscribe to a monthly plan after you bought the watch. A neat feature of the watch was downloadable watch faces, which you could change at will. Companies making SPOT watch included Fossil, Tissot, Swatch,and Sunnto. SPOT technology was also included in some coffeemakers made by Melitta. You could see the day’s weatheryou’re your coffee was brewing. But not only are the watches gone, the service is gone too. 

Update: I talked about the Spot Watch in the gadget warehouse many years ago. Back then, you could still find the Timex DataLink USB watch if you searched hard enough. Now they have pretty much disappeared too. I still have mine, but it's sitting on the dresser until I can get a new battery for it. To tell you truth, I still like it better than most of the brand new Smart Watches we're seeing here in 2013. I just checked eBay and you can still find a Timex DataLink watch, but many are selling for hundreds of dollars!

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