Smart Personal Object Technology (SPOT) preview
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During his Fall COMDEX 2002 keynote address, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates briefly unveiled the company's Smart Personal Object Technology (SPOT) initiative, in which everyday devices such as alarm clocks, wristwatches, key chains, and even refrigerator magnets are made more intelligent through a new hardware and software platform that is small enough to scale down to the sizes required by such devices. The COMDEX keynote used a smart alarm clock as an example. But by the time the 2003 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) rolled around in January 2003, Microsoft had much more to say about SPOT and the types of devices we can expect to see, beginning late this year. This preview will discuss those details and my impressions of using a prototype smart wristwatch.