Dave's MicroWatch on front page of NYTimes website! - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: mtdoc
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2015, 05:19:29 pm
content: Just opened the NYTimes website and look what is on the front page!Someone tweeting a picture of Dave's Micro Watch in the run up to the Apple watch event.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2015, 05:30:55 pm
content: I just bought a bag of watch calculators on auction. 10 for $1.50. No name brand, and the most horrible rubber keypad you have ever met, but they do actually act both as a watch and as a 4 function calculator.

author: mtdoc
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2015, 05:33:30 pm
content: Looking athis twitter feedthe wanker doesn't even give Dave proper attribution. Dick.

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2015, 06:13:27 pm
content: Dave should use that as an "in" to get interviewed by the NY Times.

author: TerminalJack505
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 10, 2015, 01:55:19 am
content: Ha! That's actually pretty funny.

author: miguelvp
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 10, 2015, 02:10:00 am
content: Quote from: mtdoc on March 09, 2015, 05:33:30 pmIt's a picture in gist, he probably just did a google image search and didn't look at the source, I know I wouldn't either if it's just supposed to be a funny picture

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 10, 2015, 02:32:55 am
content: Someone tweeting something is newsworthy these days it seems

author: wraper
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 10, 2015, 03:05:42 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on March 10, 2015, 02:32:55 amIt's becoming really weird. News consist by about fifth-fourth part about that somebody tweeted something or posted on facebook. How low society could fall if happily eats this crap... Even about war and other really serious things. Somebody tweeted some crap, must be trustworthy! Why shall we need journalists at all?.

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 10, 2015, 03:37:06 am
content: Quote from: wraper on March 10, 2015, 03:05:42 amThis is done on purpose to inject false information. Two/three reprints by the media referencing each other and the source of information is lost and the news all of a sudden becomes official.

author: miguelvp
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 10, 2015, 03:54:35 am
content: It's hard to monetize news nowadays because the vast majority think that they will get the news for free from the internet, so the news become crappier and more sensationalistic. This is been happening for more than a decade and now we wonder why sources are not researched.So now it goes like this: Big news, details at 9:30, and they fill most of it with crap and make you wait for the real news that are not that well researched because there are no funds for proper reporting.And we are surprised, still there are worthy journalists out there that work mostly out of passion.

author: XynxNet
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 10, 2015, 08:02:04 am
content: QuoteDo i misunderstand this or does he actually get an apple watch for posting Daves work?

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 10, 2015, 12:21:16 pm
content: Quote from: XynxNet on March 10, 2015, 08:02:04 amNope, it'sTwitterspam.

author: XynxNet
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 10, 2015, 04:44:47 pm
content: Well, if it weren't a dodgy privacy for goods swap, i would say lets give one to Dave for a teardown.

author: Phaedrus
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 10, 2015, 05:50:16 pm
content: Quote from: XynxNet on March 10, 2015, 04:44:47 pmNah. Probably just gonna be an ARM, some RAM, a Bluetooth IC, a battery management IC, and some passives.

author: ruffy91
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 10, 2015, 06:38:52 pm
content: Maybe they left out the power management. It does only 18h on a charge.

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 11, 2015, 08:05:11 pm
content: Quote from: ruffy91 on March 10, 2015, 06:38:52 pmI once knew a guy who flew to the moon with nothing more than an oily rag draped over a carburetor.

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 11, 2015, 08:07:10 pm
content: I wonder what they do about heat in these watches?I mean we've all pulled a smart phone out of our pocket and had it feel quite warm even doing apparently nothing because some background task / service was hitting the CPU or wireless a lot.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 11, 2015, 08:10:53 pm
content: 18h on a charge, matches the iPhone then, you have to charge both every night, more often if you actually use them.Heat is no problem, you have a close to ideal black body absorber on the rear face when wearing it, which looks like an almost infinite heatsink for up to 5W at 39C.

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 12, 2015, 01:37:32 pm
content: Quote from: SeanB on March 11, 2015, 08:10:53 pmMore so I was thinking the feeling of it on your arm being warm and annoying.