Patent ID: 7593755

Claim:
A wristwatch apparatus comprising: a mechanical selector having a first mechanical display indicator, wherein the first mechanical display indicator includes a plurality of icons that mechanically indicate available public frequency modulated (FM) channels, wherein each of the available public FM channels includes a different message content, wherein mechanical selection of an icon that indicates an available public FM channel causes retrieval of message content received from the available public FM channels, wherein the retrieval of the message content includes message content from the selected available public FM channel indicated by the icon of the first mechanical indicator of the mechanical selector, wherein the retrieval of the message content from the selected available public FM channel indicated by the icon of the first mechanical indicator of the mechanical selector causes the generation of control signals, wherein the control signals are generated by accessing a managed hardware driver library within the wristwatch apparatus and generating the control signal according to an API of one of the hardware drivers in the managed hardware driver library, wherein the control signals cause the mechanical movement of a second mechanical display indicator to mechanically indicate information according to the message content from the selected available public FM channel indicated by the icon of the first mechanical indicator of the mechanical selector; an FM receiver integrated in the wristband of the wristwatch apparatus for receiving FM signals from each of the available public FM channels, wherein each of the available public FM channels includes information associated with the different message content; an electronic system for receiving the mechanical selection of the available public FM channel according to the first mechanical display indictor, processing the selection according to an API for a first mechanical display indicator hardware driver in the hardware driver library to cause retrieval of information in the FM signal related to the selection by the first mechanical display indictor, extracting the information from the received FM signal, accessing the hardware driver library within the wristwatch apparatus, and generating the control signal based on an API of a second mechanical display indicator hardware driver in the hardware driver library to cause the mechanical movement of the second mechanical display indicator according to the information extracted from the received FM signal; and a display for mechanically displaying the information extracted by the electronic system, wherein the display includes the first mechanical display indicator and the second mechanical display indicator, wherein the first mechanical display indicator includes the icon that indicates the selected available public FM channel, wherein the second mechanical display indicator includes the information in the context of the icon that mechanically indicates the selected available public FM channel.