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Thermally Powered Mechanical Wristwatch

Posted by michael on from the crack-open-the-piggy-bank dept.

Raghu Mani writes "Theremally powered quartz wristwatches - which use minor temperature variations to generate electricity - have been around for a few years. Now here is something a lot more radical - a thermally powered mechanical watch. Invented by an American - Steven Phillips - it uses small temperature variations to wind the mainspring of the watch. A patent has been awarded for this - check out this link. A small article on the technology can be found here and the guy's own website is budapestwatchco.com. I doubt if any of us will be buying one of those watches anytime soon, though - just check out those prices ;-)."

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  1. 1st post?? by xenocytekron · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    hmm will the body temperature affect it?

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  2. Imagine a ... by nikhilwiz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Beowulf cluster of these. I bet you could run the ISS with astronauts from NASA and Russia having sex in turns. How costly is sex in russia?

  3. Mod Parent Down by phoxix · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Can we just stop with these "Imagine a Beowulf cluster .." jokes ??

    They aren't funny anymore, nor are they imaginative at all. They are simply repetitive and nothing more.

    Sunny Dubey

  4. Re:I Have No Job -- And Blame Stallman For It by spybreak · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    If it weren't for all the free software GPL crap, Linux could have been profitable and we'd all still have jobs now.

    I don't think that that's entirely correct. To the contrary I think that Linux is responsible for the creation of a lot of jobs. Sure there is not a lot of money to be made in directly selling GPL software licences, however there is a a lot of service and consulting work to be had around Linux and other free* software.

    Personally I think that had Linux not been free* it would have gone the same way as BeOS and many other closed source efforts at Windows killers.

    As for the tech and telco meltdown I think that had a lot more to do with greedy opportunists pulling the wool over investors eyes to make a quick buck, not to mention systemic corporate corruption.

    Just my 2c

    * free as in freedom, not beer.