Re:Chronos Will Turn Any Watch into a Smartwatch
by fineline on Sunday November 08, 2015 @07:41PM
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My watch (with mechanical hands, not digital) has some kind of kinetic energy generation, it has run for years and years without stopping, charging or winding. I wonder if something similar would suffice for energy needs of a device like this with no screen to power?
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Re:Chronos Will Turn Any Watch into a Smartwatch
by robzyb on Sunday November 08, 2015 @08:09PM
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> It has run for years and years without stopping, charging or winding.
A small point of note - it has been wound. But not by hand. It has a rotor (i.e. weight) in it that spins when you move, and this winds the watch.
http://i.imgur.com/VWvlDgH.jpg
> I wonder if something similar would suffice for energy needs of a device like this with no screen to power?
When I looked into it this was not possible. But of course, now that I've said that, someone's going to figure out how to do it.
I think that the trick would be customized silicon so it would be as lower power as possible. You'd also want to use super-low-power wireless technology to link it to your phone, and I think that the speed would be the tradeoff.