Re: [NTLK] "Kinetic energy charger" for Newton

From: James Elliott (james.elliott_at_newted.org)
Date: Thu Jul 18 2002 - 13:54:42 EDT


I don't know about watches that charge themselves. Perhaps you are
thinking of watches that wind themselves?

-James

>I know that some watches have some kind of a mechanism that uses the
>kinetic energy as you fling it aound on your wrist throughout the day to
>charge it. Seeing as how a lot of people here wear theirNewts, would this
>mechanism be able to gernerate near enough power to appreciably extend
>battery life between charges? (Especially since the Newt Holster usually
>holds the Newts closer to the body's center- of gravity than a watch,
>which woulld probabbly affect it.)

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