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Casio's solar models are even better -- you don't need even the once every few year battery change.
My $5 Casio has a "10 year battery"
I'm really amazed every time I think about it.
when I was in high school I had a casio watch that doubled as a TV remote control that was responsible for a lot of random power off/change channel messages to the TVs at school... not as cool as an actual tv watch but was fun.
Try this exercise: Hold your arm so a watch strapped on top of your wrist would be facing toward your eyes for easy viewing of its display. If you have a smartwatch, or any kind of watch, you do this many times a day. Now hold your arm in that position for 30 or 60 minutes to watch an entire TV show. You can take a break during the commercials. Enjoying that? Probably not. With a [smart]watch, you only glance at it a…
This assumes that this was intended as a truly practical item. However, this is a product of a watch manufacturer. Its usefulness is also defined in social terms. It's an expensive novelty item, a status symbol, a conversation piece, an icebreaker, etc, then it's also a practical item. This one doesn't achieve these social functions by mechanical complications, a multitude of jewels or fine engravings by monk-like ar…
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Casio's solar models are even better -- you don't need even the once every few year battery change.
Few is an understatement. My solar atomic g shock hasn't needed a battery replacement in the 15 years I've owned it. They're rated for 10-15 years though, so I guess I'll see how it's holding up in another six months.
I've always wanted one of these. Sadly, the LCD has failed in the majority of surviving examples, I believe the liquid part of the liquid crystal "escapes" over time. If you have an Apple Watch there's a new app called "WatchTube" that lets you watch YouTube on your watch, if you'd like to see if such a tiny video viewing experience is actually any good.
Here’s the app store link to save others multiple clicks:
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They do, but how many viewing hours do you get from a single battery charge?
The decoding is probably in the same order of magnitude as listening to music from your watch. The screen brightness is the limiting factor. Based on always-on displays on the Apple Watch you are probably looking at 8 hours or so? So decoding with the screen on might be 5 hours?
This feels like discovering a time capsule which holds the early signs of why Japanese women aren't interested in Japanese men anymore.
Try this exercise: Hold your arm so a watch strapped on top of your wrist would be facing toward your eyes for easy viewing of its display. If you have a smartwatch, or any kind of watch, you do this many times a day. Now hold your arm in that position for 30 or 60 minutes to watch an entire TV show. You can take a break during the commercials. Enjoying that? Probably not. With a [smart]watch, you only glance at it a…
> Enjoying that? Probably not. As a kid? Immensely.
Try this exercise: Hold your arm so a watch strapped on top of your wrist would be facing toward your eyes for easy viewing of its display. If you have a smartwatch, or any kind of watch, you do this many times a day. Now hold your arm in that position for 30 or 60 minutes to watch an entire TV show. You can take a break during the commercials. Enjoying that? Probably not. With a [smart]watch, you only glance at it a…
It was good enough to be featured in a James Bond movie. For many companies, I think that's the only kind of thing they care about.
Try this exercise: Hold your arm so a watch strapped on top of your wrist would be facing toward your eyes for easy viewing of its display. If you have a smartwatch, or any kind of watch, you do this many times a day. Now hold your arm in that position for 30 or 60 minutes to watch an entire TV show. You can take a break during the commercials. Enjoying that? Probably not. With a [smart]watch, you only glance at it a…
Neither requires you to pay full attention to your wrist for 30 minutes.
Not that this was a wildly successful product, but the point wasn't to watch a sitcom, complete with commercial breaks, without moving.