http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/ Engadget Comments for TI introduces the eZ430-Chronos development platform... and sports watch http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/Nov 23rd 2009 11:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/Nov 23rd 2009 11:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/Yo dawg, I herd you like stocking stockings and watching watches, I we put a watch in your stocking and a stocking in your watch so you can stock watches and watch stockings while you watch watches stock stockings and watch stockings stock watches... or watch stocks... or something watched stockings do.]]>Nov 24th 2009 2:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/Nov 23rd 2009 11:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/Nov 23rd 2009 11:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/Nov 23rd 2009 11:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/Nov 23rd 2009 11:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/Nov 23rd 2009 11:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/Nov 24th 2009 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/Nov 24th 2009 12:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/Sounds to me like someone has an idea for a project. ]]>Nov 24th 2009 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/Nov 24th 2009 12:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/Nov 24th 2009 1:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/
The Timex Datalink USB has a dot matrix display (albeit somewhat skewed) and is programmable, so this is NOT the first programmable watch, but does have various sensors and wireless communications, one thing the Timex lacks.

Out of non-programmable watches, the Tech4o TraiLeader watches have full-faced dot matrix displays and all the normal sensors you'd expect from an outdoors watch, including an accelerometer for measuring walking/running distances.

Also... the damn thing is "out of stock". Good job on posting something that nobody can get their hands on.]]>Nov 24th 2009 1:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/There's nothing wrong with a segmented display. It makes things easier and lower-power, with the tradeoff being the limitation on what you can display. Honestly, do you think you can effectively display anything other than letters and numbers on that small of a dot matrix?

Furthermore, this isn't even similar to the Timex you referenced. It's got a wireless modem for connecting to sensors, and you've got direct access to the micro that's running the show. Completely different devices.]]>Nov 24th 2009 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/Nov 24th 2009 1:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/Nov 24th 2009 1:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/I was happy when I read the news and pissed off when I read the actual product page. I/Me/We want a programmable watch that can actually send the data online as it happens.]]>Nov 24th 2009 2:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/Now I just need something to turn that erroneous 'I' back into a 'so', like an edit button. I like edit buttons.]]>Nov 24th 2009 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/
That was easily the best "yo dawg" I have ever seen. I tip my hat to you.]]>Nov 24th 2009 5:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/Nov 24th 2009 2:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/Nov 24th 2009 3:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/
I still may get one just to play with as a development device.]]>Nov 24th 2009 7:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/Nov 24th 2009 6:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDL3awjhLpw]]>Nov 24th 2009 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.acentas.com/index.php/components
Still looks like a fun toy...
]]>Nov 24th 2009 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/
]]>Nov 24th 2009 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/Nov 24th 2009 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/I would pay $490 for one that supports bluetooth if rest of the specs are about the same. (Programmable, 2-way data transfer, accelometer, altimeter, temperature)]]>Nov 24th 2009 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.bmwireless.com/

As for all the comments on bluetooth: BT is an absolute overkill for such applications (sports watches, pulse meters, remote controls) it's intended for much higher transfer rates in as such is not as energy effiecient as the protocols used for the Chronos kit, btw, more details here: http://wiki.msp430.com/index.php/EZ430-Chronos]]>Nov 24th 2009 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/
I was a bit off the point with comment. I don't care what the wireless standard is as long as mobile phones have real time access to generated data.

Nokia had nice start with N79 active, but it was immeditially discontinued. Also I didn't see any other solutions using the BT heart rate sensor. ]]>Nov 24th 2009 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?lang=en&site=US&WT.z_homepage_link=hp_go_button&KeyWords=chronos&x=0&y=0]]>Nov 24th 2009 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://e2e.ti.com/media/p/50213.aspx
Not exactly a tear down, but nice to see]]>Nov 25th 2009 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/ti-introduces-the-ez430-chronos-development-platform-and-spor/http://e2e.ti.com/media/p/50297.aspx]]>Nov 25th 2009 8:12AM