2023-01-04 16:02:12 -07:00
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title: Smart Watches
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date: 2022-11-28
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My employer has this add-on to the health plan where,
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if you wear a pedometer,
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you get money in your health spending account.
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If you also provide sleep tracking,
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you get even more money.
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It doesn't seem to care (currently) about your pulse.
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I don't have any huge issue with this plan.
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But I'd like to, as much as possible,
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have this not be at the foreground of my day-to-day life.
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After a lot of thinking,
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I wound up realizing that the main consideration for me was battery life!
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Believe it or not, all the other doodads and gizmos weren't actually that important.
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So my requirements list is basically:
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1. Tells me the time
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2. Can go for a long time without needing to be recharged
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3. Counts my steps and automatically puts them in this health plan thing
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4. Also tell the health plan how long I sleep
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I wound up going back to a watch I had a few years ago,
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which has a month-long battery life between recharges.
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If you turn off the thing where it vibrates when you get a phone call,
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I think it will go even longer.
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It also has the advantage of telling me the time the old-fashioned way:
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with hands.
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So I can just glance at it and see what time it is,
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without needing to flick my wrist or get into a dark enough area or whatever.
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I started writing this article in November,
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and I'm finishing it in January.
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I've been wearing that watch for a couple months now and it's no big deal.
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It feels kind of silly writing about it.
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But this is something a lot of people spend time and money thinking about in 2022!
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2023-09-25 16:07:41 -06:00
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Update: 2023-09-25
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Since switch jobs, I've been wearing a Casio F-91W. I got it for $7 about 10 years ago.
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It tells me the time, date, and weekday. It has an alarm, a stopwatch, and a barely-usable
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light. It's been running on the battery it came with since I got it.
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Every 4 years you have to tell it about leap year.
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Apparently, my favorite watch is one I only have to think about every 4 years.
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