{"id":533,"date":"2019-08-30T05:12:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T09:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/?p=533"},"modified":"2019-08-30T05:30:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T09:30:12","slug":"powerwatch-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/30\/powerwatch-matrix\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerWatch Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2017 I contributed to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/smartwatch-powered-by-you-matrix-powerwatch--2#\/\">campaign on Indiegogo<\/a> for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerwatch.com\/\">PowerWatch Matrix<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting and promising concept &#8211; a smart watch and fitness tracker that you&#8217;d never need to charge, because it would recharge using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matrixindustries.com\/en\/energy-harvesting\">thermoelectric energy<\/a> from your wrist.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, after more than a year, I&#8217;ve now to decided to abandon it, for these reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Frequent freezes. Nothing a reset wouldn&#8217;t fix, but since the watch does not have non-volatile storage, all data after the last sync is lost<\/li>\n<li>Data. There&#8217;s nothing you can do with the data, except for looking at it from the app on the phone. There&#8217;s no way to export your stats, let&#8217;s say to Google Fit, or share it with other devices.<\/li>\n<li>Global warming. Thermoelectric energy harvesting works off the delta between the case and your skin &#8211; more often than not I found that there no longer was a difference and thus had return to manual charging.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While freezing and manual charging were only mildly inconvenient, my main reason to leave the PowerWatch behind is the inability to use the data. I&#8217;m now using a refurbished Polar Loop &#8211; it needs charging every couple of days, but at least I have access to my stats.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_20190820_122641_edited.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"IMG_20190820_122641_edited\" src=\"http:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_20190820_122641_edited_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20190820_122641_edited\" width=\"754\" height=\"379\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Same skin and case temperature, no harvesting)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2017 I contributed to a campaign on Indiegogo for the PowerWatch Matrix. An interesting and promising concept &#8211; a smart watch and fitness tracker that you&#8217;d never need to charge, because it would recharge using thermoelectric energy from your wrist. Alas, after more than a year, I&#8217;ve now to decided to abandon it, for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/30\/powerwatch-matrix\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PowerWatch Matrix<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialmedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/palXpA-8B","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}