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Transparent Solar Panel Enables First Solar-Powered Smartwatch

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday October 10 2017, @03:09AM   Printer-friendly
from the doesn't-recharge-in-the-basement dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Solar-powered watches are nothing new, but being more power-hungry beasts, solar-powered smartwatches are a different story. A San Francisco-based startup called LunaR now claims to have bridged the divide by developing a smartwatch that never needs to be plugged in for a recharge as it draws all the energy it needs from the sun.

The LunaR... includes sleep and activity tracking, along with integration with social media and messaging apps to bring notifications to the wrist through an embedded LED array.

At the heart of what the creators claim is the world's first solar-powered smartwatch is (unsurprisingly) a breakthrough in solar technology. With a clear solar panel layered over the watch face, it's claimed the LunaR can harvest energy from both natural and artificial light. So much so, that with as little as one hour of daily exposure to light, its 110-mAh lithium-polymer battery can apparently stay fully charged.

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday October 10 2017, @04:43AM (3 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday October 10 2017, @04:43AM (#579627)

    I'm patenting an infrared non-transparent panel, designed for the back of the watch and the inside of the strap.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 10 2017, @05:30AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 10 2017, @05:30AM (#579649)

    Error: Consumer froze to death.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by coolgopher on Tuesday October 10 2017, @07:25AM

      by coolgopher (1157) on Tuesday October 10 2017, @07:25AM (#579688)

      Cool!

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Tuesday October 10 2017, @07:47PM

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 10 2017, @07:47PM (#580006) Journal

      Error: Consumer froze to death.

      Can you please try to reproduce the problem and see if it happens again?

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