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Low-power chips are secret sauce behind long-life wearables

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Engineering query

So we all know in the analogue world you can get self-winding watches which harvest energy from the user moving around. And just yesterday I saw an old Tomorrow's World clip from 1981 about a thermocouple-powered watch.

How many Wh can you generate using such technologies in a watch? And how many Wh does a more conventional smart-watch use? Never mind how you store the energy in your battery, I just wonder how far apart these numbers are that we could ever conceivably see a self-'winding' smart watch? A fitbit that relied on the owner to exercise to keep it charged...

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