Microsoft Smart Watch

The Microsoft SPOT watch is a wristwatch that retrieves data from Microsoft's MSN wireless service via a portion of the FM radio band. The watches were built by Fossil, Suunto, Tissot and Swatch, and is a product of Microsoft's Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT)

SPOT was first announced at CES in January 2003, and SPOT watches were originally supposed to go on sale from Fossil and other watchmakers in time for the holiday shopping season. Last-minute tweaks to a radio chip in the watches delayed their introduction, according to a source familiar with the effort.

According to Microsoft, plans are priced at $9.95 per month or $59 per year; watches start at $129. A Microsoft spokesperson confirms that SPOT watches will be available at Fossil stores in Las Vegas during CES, and then at retail stores nationwide the following week. The service will be available initially only in U.S. metropolitan areas and parts of southern Canada, but testing has already begun in Europe, the source says.