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Yahoo: IBM clocks in with new Linux watch

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Stephen Shankland
Mar 23, 2001

“IBM has created a second-generation Linux wristwatch, this one
smaller than the original and sporting a gleaming golden display,
but still just as impractical.”

“IBM is showing the new watch at the CeBit trade show. Though
the watch is a technology demonstration and isn’t for sale–its
battery lasts only two hours–it’s a lot closer to a commercial
product than IBM’s bulky first-generation model….”

“The highlight of IBM’s watch–besides the novelty of cramming
an operating system designed for servers into a computer smaller
than an Oreo cookie–is its bright OLED (organic light-emitting
diode) display.”


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