Smartwatches

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

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