The Eerie Beauty of the Apple Watch Solar Face, and the Anatomy of Nightfall
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Another I'd throw out there are the charts for latitude vs. hours of sunlight per day by month[0].
I have never wanted a tattoo, but that's an icon that I'd consider - maybe overlay each city in which one's lived, and periodically update it..
[0] http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/images/dayleng...
Time adjustment you need to make to a sundial by month
Wouldn't surprise me, Humans don't have (by the standards of many mammals we share the surface with) particularly great night vision and prior to fire we'd have had no source of illumination but the moon/stars at night.
Basically stay in your cave/shelter til you can see whatever you are stalking/been stalked by.
More open question is how to counteract such negative effects. Supplementing daylight with high-power artificial light seems to be one of the most promising approaches. Simply sleeping more during shorter days is fairly speculative suggestion, at least as a "silver bullet".
That being said, simply based on personal experience I would expect that slight changes of sleep length could be possible. But the effect would be more like ±30mins to sleep length, when e.g. where I live currently daylight length varies from about 6 to 18 hours. Trying to match sleep to such a big swing seems pretty unlikely to succeed.
In the military knowing first-light and last-light, down to within a few minutes, is essential daily. I have an app on my phone that tells me sunrise and sunset, but as the article describes these aren't the same thing. I also have a very expensive top-of-the-range Garmin watch and even that just tells me the less useful sunrise and sunset, which makes me suspicious it's not as military as it markets itself as.
I don't know if anyone knows an app that gives first-light and last-light for the phone, so I don't have to buy a new watch?
But errr... isn't the Weather Underground a domestic terrorism and bombing group?
(Since the bombing group was underground we can of course never know for sure exactly which members were part of the pivot)
It was acquired by The Weather Channel (later The Weather Company) which was later acquired by IBM.
That said for nearly $700USD I'd rather go for a smart watch. Even though I understand why you wouldn't want one for privacy, distraction/addiction, or whatnot.
https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/fenix66s6xpro/EN-US/...
Or check the Solaris watch face which shows civil twilight, nautical twilight, astronomical twilight, and night.
https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/0e019a96-aeb3-4aaf-81ed-4...
Above subject to which device you have.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.hbenecke.su...
I'd like one that takes into account terrain. All of the apps I've seen believe the world is a perfectly smooth. I live in a place with mountains, and my "last-light" time at certain points of the year can be as much as 50 minutes earlier than any app will predict.
Check out Sol and Sundial:
https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/sol-sun-clock/id491537291?l=en
https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/sundial-solar-lunar-times/id97...
Why is that?
Therein lie my hopes and fears for AR's educational impact. Things done well with care, becoming ambient informal education. Here twilights, day lengths, Sun color, cause of night. Versus ambient cognitive pollution, as collateral damage from design choices, and from the usual carelessly wretched education content.
The Fitbit store has tons of them, mostly just crap IMO - the Hallmark card of watch faces as it were, with a lot of variations of "cute kitty background". But there are a few gems, including one I found that's based on a Tokyo Flash design.
Honestly disgraceful asking for a subscription to watch faces.
The value proposition here is borderline irrational, targeting the financially apathetic or incompetent only. If I never would have paid for it, and it's of no cost to anyone to take it for free, why wouldn't I? Not that this is a desired enough thing to be on the pirate seas, but the point stands.
Were I to ever release paid software, I'd probably seed the pirate copy myself with links to a pay-what-you-want page to allow others to make the value judgement themselves.
https://gallery.fitbit.com/developer/a1e68576-08c1-40bd-a1c2...
The developer (Nev Rawlins) used to design for Tokyo Flash apparently. Also, free.
I did wonder about one bit though, which really was driven home by their speculation about trying to do it mechanically at the end:
>"However, as a fan of astronomical complications, I can't help but wonder if this sort of complication couldn't be realized in a mechanical wristwatch or pocket watch."
Does what the Apple Watch is doing require GPS? I sort of assumed that if it's showing true noon/midnight and so on it must also be taking into account the watch's physical location and calculating with that. As someone who knows little about mechanical watches, can this be done without that, or there mechanical complications that can take a manual location adjustment as an input or the like? It's amazing to consider the kinds of creative and impressive engineering and construction that has gone into mechanical computation though. On almost the polar opposite scale, it somehow reminds me a bit of the Ars article last year mechanical analog computers for warships ( https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/05/gears... ).
On the other hand, Japanese watchmakers don't seem to be particularly averse to mixing analog with digital, mechanical with electronic. So I wouldn't be surprised if Citizen, for example, came up with a hybrid GPS/mechanical watch that does exactly what the Apple Watch does while the Swiss toil for decades trying to build a purely mechanical version.
The horizon is not horizontal at all. Even weirder, the watch shows „Nautical Dawn“ at 9:21 PM and sunrise around 10:20 PM! I‘m currently in GMT+7 time zone and my iPhone is set accordingly (automatically) so no way the sun will rise in the middle of the night!
The App doesn’t offer much setting thus it‘s still a mystery for me.
Some questions...
Why is it so thick? (Guessing the double stacked batteries plus a movement?) Any plans for lower profile V8?
I see some models are two batteries, one for analog hand and one for digital, one with 5 year run time, one with 1 year run time. Why two? What’s the battery situation with this V7?
How waterproof is it? Nautical time demands nautical proof packaging. See all the kits parts and lug sizes, etc., but not waterproofness.
Fascinating concept, feels like what would have been a ‘maker’ project on Kickstarter if it existed circa Y2K. Back then, though, you’d find these kinds of “who thought of that things you didn’t know you needed” in Sharper Image, which suckered me into more than a couple off beat watches. As a collector of both analog and novelty time pieces, I’d pick this up but feels more like $45 to $295 (depending on materials) rather than $695, even in “today’s dollars”.
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A burglar robbing a house at night is more likely to encounter occupants. The law is such to discourage home invasions, accidental or not.
The amounts of spyware in the app store have caused me to massively scale back my use of apps now, so I almost never wear my apple watch anymore.
Why not just use it without the third-party apps you're concerned about? It has a ton of functionality out of the box.
Additionally, keeping health tracking turned off on the watch means that, in addition to not taking your pulse dozens of times per day, you can't engage in the normal workouts either. Each time I work out it's four steps: enable health tracking, start workout, end workout, end health tracking.
- solar noon wanders around a fair bit around the clock noon
- the length of daylight varies quite asymmetrically between the summer and winter solstice (relative to the equinox). I realized afterwards that this is probably because of Earth's elliptical orbit around the sun.
Wrist shot: https://ibb.co/TtSS6Jh
source is linked at the bottom. much of it was written in elm and i no longer understand how any of it works.
This doesn’t seem like a safety critical feature that would warrant withholding the choice to opt out of third party location tracking
I.e. permissions for privacy should not be treated as "grant or deny" but instead "grant true data or grant spoofed data".
1) Mechanical Watches
2) G-Shocks
If you're putting something other than those on your wrist, that's fine, and you can dork out all you want, but just please don't call it a "watch". The Apple Watch is an insult to every horologist and a disgrace to everyone with an ounce of class. :) Yes I jest, but actually not all that much.
Snobbery is not the best way to get people interested in your hobby. Isn't it great that people are getting excited about watches again? This article is about extending the features of mechanical watches with cool technology, while mechanical watches are not even particular good at telling you what time it is. Mechanical watches are cool, but so is UX innovation in modern watches, as the discussions in this thread demonstrate.
Most people who wear Apple Watch have it either as a toy to play with or as a fashion/wealth statement. I bet the majority of grown-ass men you see in an Apple Watch wouldn't think twice about sporting a bead bracelet, the silly Live Strong plastic atrocity, or my favorite thing to ridicule, the little "braided string bracelet" that some influencer in Hollywood declared cool shortly after outlawing fanny packs. haha. Yes I say all this in jest, so please don't be offended. Everything is going to be ok. :)
There are so many technologies to tell time. Most horologists appreciate the evolution of these technologies: manual, automatic, quartz, solar, eco-drive, spring-drive, and smart watches.
All of them amazing and equally intriguing and loveable.