Suunto, Microsoft team up (seriously)

http://www.suunto.com/pls/suunto/su...dlines&in_left_link=suunto2.pubnews.headlines

And not so seriously, this brings to mind a funny clip from a couple of years ago:

http://www.stupidvideos.com/

Click on the "Alphabetical" tab and then select "SCUBA Windows Crash" (#422)

Here's the text from the Suunto announcement:

SUUNTO PARTNERS WITH MICROSOFT TO OFFER NEXT GENERATION PERSONAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS
New line of Suunto n-Series Sports Wristops Feature Microsoft Smart Personal Object Technology; Provide Mobile Internet, Messaging, News, Sports, Weather,
and Time-Keeping Functions

Las Vegas, NV, January 9, 2003 - - Suunto, the worldwide leader in sports instruments, today announced a partnership with Microsoft® to develop and market a line of Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT)-enabled sports wristops. The new n-series, developed by Suunto in cooperation with Microsoft, will be the first of an entirely new class of personal information systems that use radio frequencies to offer consumers customizable, real-time information. Using the latest in RF-technology, Suunto’s new n-series sports wristops will provide a wide variety of information on demand – including mobile Internet, e-mail, channels for news, weather, sports and stock quotes, and a calendar -- as well as advanced timekeeping and other features offered by Suunto’s other sports wristops.

“Suunto is well-known to sports enthusiasts around the world for our top quality products and the many high-tech features they already offer -- from advanced watch functions, barometer and altimeter, to heart-rate monitors and GPS functions,” said Dan Colliander, President of Suunto, Inc. “We are proud to partner with Microsoft to offer a new line of sports wristops that will be indispensable not only to active sports players, but also to a wider market of trend setters and young mobile achievers. We believe the appeal of the n-series and other SPOT-enabled devices will be very broad.”

“Suunto shares Microsoft’s vision of a world in which small, connected, intelligent devices can deliver highly personalized, customized information to people wherever they are,” said Bill Mitchell, Ph.D., general manager of the SPOT Group at Microsoft. “Suunto’s outstanding track record of developing and marketing top-quality, high-tech sports instruments made them an ideal partner to help us to bring our vision for SPOT to fruition with this first application in a new class of personal information systems, the SPOT-enabled sports wristop.”

“Our technological savvy and experience making sports instruments with the latest technologies, such as PC interface, graphing software and an on-line community at www.suuntosports.com, makes us ideally suited to help Microsoft launch the new category of SPOT,” added Colliander.

Suunto to Launch SPOT-enabled Sports Wristops

Currently there are plans for two models in the n-series line, including the Suunto n3 and the Suunto n6. The first Suunto n-series, SPOT-enabled sports wristops are scheduled to hit retail markets in the North America (US and Canada) for Christmas 2003. For more information about Microsoft’s Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT), visit www.microsoft.com/spot and Suunto n-Series campaign site at suunto.nitrofx.com/n6


Contacts:
CEO Dan Colliander, +35850-3429950
Director of Marketing Claes Björkstén, +35850-3628965

Whaaaat!!! They won't even let me off diving!!!

They should start looking at linux. They are doing some amazing things with embedded linux devices. I can just see it now. Your at your first deco stop you look at your computer and see "ERROR: Please reinstall windows."

lucid once bubbled...
They should start looking at linux. They are doing some amazing things with embedded linux devices. I can just see it now. Your at your first deco stop you look at your computer and see "ERROR: Please reinstall windows."

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Ow, ow. Thats cruel :boom: :boom:

lucid once bubbled...
They should start looking at linux. They are doing some amazing things with embedded linux devices. I can just see it now. Your at your first deco stop you look at your computer and see "ERROR: Please reinstall windows."

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That little paperclip guy will probably popup asking if you wish to send the error message to Microsoft... HeHeHe

And then don't forget the new BSOD algorithm (Blue screen of death) !!!

Well if they extend it to dive computers... you could read your emails while bumming around on deco stops, and TRULLY rot yer brain!

They'll have to add a new category to MSN Messenger... instead of setting your status to "Away", you can set it to "Diving"!

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Now I'll have to get some sort of cell phone to use underwater so I can call tech support when the dive computer crashes ! It really would be the Blue Screen of Death !

no. they are doing it for their wrist watches and not their dive computers.

Dxtreme once bubbled...
no. they are doing it for their wrist watches and not their dive computers.

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Spoilsport. We were having fun!

Roak

This is a picture of the first MS Suunto prototype moments after Bill Gates first showed the device!

http://www.liquidroot.org/vytecBSOD.bmp