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Pebble Power

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I still have a bunch of photos that I have not uploaded from my vacation in the mountains. So many photos that I have to carefully curate them to a succinct few for posting. While working on that I want to report on an experiment that I preformed on my 10 day trip. The Pebble Time Steel which I had recently received boasts a 10 day battery life. Coincidentally the length of the trip I was about to embark on.

Could I go the entire trip, Friday to Sunday without charging it?

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Pebble, Tracking a trek at 12,000ft

No, I couldn’t. At 10:43am on the last Saturday of the trip the watch gave out. But 9 of the promised 10 days isn’t bad.

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Interestingly enough the Pebble still functions as a regular digital watch when the battery hits zero. I wounder if it would have lasted another day in that state?

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Updated my pebble to reflect that today is the day 30 years into the future where when Marty McFly is brought by Doc Brown to save his kids in Back to the Future II. Though we don’t have hover boards or self lacing shoes after today we can finally put to rest the Facebook posts every October falsely claiming that this is the year. This is the year!

Technology Perpetuating Technology

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In the news this week Apple unveiled more information about their newest product, the Apple watch. Discussions of smart watches (smarches) are very polarized, especially within the smart watch community. Whether or not smart watches are useful and what system is the best; Android Wear vs. Apple Watch against all the rest, the market is already pretty big. Personally, I am a backer of the Pebble smart watch, having been wearing one for nearly two years. Pebble has strategically launched their new watches in time with Apple’s event even though neither devices will be on anyone’s wrists for another few months. Still many are drawing conclusion and making unfounded comparisons between the two. Since I have access to a 3D Printer I decided to make a less-biased comparison and compare the physical form of the two.

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Left: Apple Watch, Right: Pebble Time

The Pebble Time is wider than the Apple Watch, which is much smaller than I expected it to be. The model I printed is of the 42mm model which is the larger of the two offered. The Pebble time is significantly thinner than the Apple Watch, and with the rounded face feels much more like a watch. The Apple watch gains a lot of thickness from the heart rate sensor the sticks out of the underside of the watch and the round rectangle shape make it feel like a mini tic-tac case.

With out regard to my personal preference in smart watches, it amazing how small both of these devices are.