On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:58:06 -0700, David Forbes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The Casio watch is rechargeable, since the GPS function drains the >battery in two hours. Amusingly, it takes three hours to charge it, so >the GPS drain current is higher than the charger's output! > >Recharging a wristwatch is not my idea of a good time. It needs to be >very easy to do. A USB-powered charger may be ideal. Mine neither. Maybe someone will use inductive charging or solar power like my G-shock WWVB watch. That one just has solar cell around the edges since it's opaque brown. I read somewhere of the development of an organic solar material that is semi-transparent. Perhaps they could coat the whole crystal with the stuff. > >I expect a practical GPS wrist-mounted timepiece would use the GPS only >every couple of days to resync, giving time accurate to perhaps a few >tenths of a second. You could always request a resync if you needed to >know precisely what time it was. Yep, much more reasonable. John --- John De Armond See my website for my current email address http://www.neon-john.com Cleveland, Occupied TN All great things are simple and many can be expressed in single words: Freedom, Justice, Honor, Duty, Mercy, Hope. -Churchill _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
