Solar Powered Smartwatch Successfully Crowdfunded on Kickstarter
Published on September 30, 2017 at 11:34AM
An anonymous reader quotes the Verge:
Battery life on smartwatches is, in a word, bad. And while most of today’s watches can more or less make it through a day without dying, they’re still a far cry from the months or even years that traditional watches can run for. What if you never had to charge your smartwatch? That’s the promise of Lunar, a new Kickstarter project that claims to be the world’s first solar-powered smartwatch… The company says that the watch can charge off both indoor and outdoor light, and can run off as little as one hour of exposure a day. (The company also includes a traditional inductive charger as a backup.)
As for the watch itself, it’s a pretty standard hybrid smartwatch, solar power aside. It’ll be able to do basic activity and sleep tracking, offer some limited notification support through a colored LED, and automatically set time zones through a connected smartphone app. Also, given the need for low power consumption for the solar charging to feasibly work, there’s no screen on the Lunar. Instead, there’s just a ring of LED lights located where hour markers would be.
The campaign reached its funding goal wIthin two days of launching — and one week later had double that amount, raising a total of $101,987 from 564 backers.
It’s not clear if Slashdot readers love or hate smartwatches. Does it make a difference if the watch is solar powered?
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