Thermally Powered Mechanical Wristwatch

Posted by michael on Wednesday December 25, 2002 @07:03AM 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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1st post?? by xenocytekron · 2002-12-25 07:06 · Score: 1, Offtopic

hmm will the body temperature affect it?

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Mod Parent Down by phoxix · 2002-12-25 07:17 · 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.
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