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what's up guys with antoine good with cnet.com on the floor at CES 2013 with a very early look at the like or gps sports watch this is a product that's coming out of Kickstarter and it's rapidly approaching its goal with an expected delivery date of June 2013 this is the sports watch that uses a GPS antenna built inside of it to track a number of different elements here for example you can track your current location you can track your pace how fast you've been running how long you've been running it's also got wireless connectivity built into it so you can pair it with an aunt plus heart rate monitor or a number of Bluetooth low-energy accessories it's a really big screen here two inches it's probably the biggest in its class we're told and it's a basically either the really interesting technology that the more light you put on it the better it looks so it's gonna be really good for those of you who like to run outside in the daytime you don't have to worry about that screen washing out in the Sun the full color screen it has built-in compatibility with OpenStreetMaps that's an open sourced mapping project so you can actually upload your maps to this and upload route to it so for example if you have a running buddy who has a favorite route in your city they can send it to you you can upload it and you can pretty much follow the dotted line on the full-color map right here it uses a gorilla glass screen so you don't really have to worry about cracking it and a medical-grade rubber band so you don't have to worry about any sort of irritation a lot of times when you're running with a sports watch you get a lot of sweat into the band starts irritating you have to worry about that with this watch right here charges via a USB with a cradle right here and you can also use the USB to think but we're told that most users are probably gonna use the Wi-Fi connectivity built in for all the map syncing and downloading of the GPS data no wires nothing to really worry about right there this is a very early look at a pre-production version of it the final product is actually gonna have a number of changes for example this is IP X 6 waterproof the final product targeted ipx8 so you should actually even be able to use it when you're swimming that's good for triathlete if you want to swim with this thing on you've also we have also been told that there are gonna be a couple of changes to the interface for example the main screen right here that shows six very small attributes of what you're doing right now will possibly be customizable to show larger data so it'll be easier to see while you're running well I've been Antoine doodle which he Netcom and we've been on the floor at CES 2013 with the liker gps sports watch