Post by jonmyrlebailey on Mar 23, 2011 12:16:26 GMT -6
There is a problem with current wristwatches offered on the American market.
1. They are too expensive.
2. They are made too cheesy.
3. They are unreliable time/date keepers.
4. They don't look good.
5. They are too complex and cluttered
6. They are too bulky or heavy.
7. Any combination of the above.
The trouble with atomic radio-controlled watches is they do not always reliably receive the Fort Collins NIST signal to stay in sync reliably.
Cell phone watches are overkill and we all don't need GPS watches.
Well, I have a DAMN good
idea for an invention if you of you might support it and help get it to the watch technology industry.
Many of us now have a PC at home connected to the Internet. Most of us have the Windows system clock and calendar set to automatically stay syncked with one of several time-standard resources. Most of those computers we have these days also supply the ingenious USB (universal serial bus) ports!
We can plug in wireless USB devices like keyboards and mice to talk with our PCs.
Why in the world can't we plug in a simple little USB radio transmitter that can send a radio signal to a nearby watch or clock to keep in perfectly sync regularly?
Why have not the major watch makers thought about this yet? Come on Timex, Seiko, Casio, Omega, Rolex, Bulova, Texas Instruments, Radio Shack, Citizen, Movado, Fossil and Longienes!!! This is so obvious and so BADLY missing
from the consumer electronics/timepiece market.
Certainly, my proposed consumer timepieces could consistently receive a stronger radio signal from your home PC to always tell the perfect time and date.
The USB device could also provide the watch/clock information about current daylight savings time rules and can also be updated on a regular basis by your Internet-connected PC should those rules ever change.
The watch would have a true fully-automatic calendar and auto-DLST capability. Any where in the world the watch is near a PC connected to the Internet, the watch would be often re calibrated for perfect local time and date.
The watches could be digital or analog readout. And add the set-it-and-forget-it possibility of solar power too!
So, how do we propose this to the industry?
1. They are too expensive.
2. They are made too cheesy.
3. They are unreliable time/date keepers.
4. They don't look good.
5. They are too complex and cluttered
6. They are too bulky or heavy.
7. Any combination of the above.
The trouble with atomic radio-controlled watches is they do not always reliably receive the Fort Collins NIST signal to stay in sync reliably.
Cell phone watches are overkill and we all don't need GPS watches.
Well, I have a DAMN good
idea for an invention if you of you might support it and help get it to the watch technology industry.Many of us now have a PC at home connected to the Internet. Most of us have the Windows system clock and calendar set to automatically stay syncked with one of several time-standard resources. Most of those computers we have these days also supply the ingenious USB (universal serial bus) ports!
We can plug in wireless USB devices like keyboards and mice to talk with our PCs.
Why in the world can't we plug in a simple little USB radio transmitter that can send a radio signal to a nearby watch or clock to keep in perfectly sync regularly?
Why have not the major watch makers thought about this yet? Come on Timex, Seiko, Casio, Omega, Rolex, Bulova, Texas Instruments, Radio Shack, Citizen, Movado, Fossil and Longienes!!! This is so obvious and so BADLY missing
from the consumer electronics/timepiece market. Certainly, my proposed consumer timepieces could consistently receive a stronger radio signal from your home PC to always tell the perfect time and date.
The USB device could also provide the watch/clock information about current daylight savings time rules and can also be updated on a regular basis by your Internet-connected PC should those rules ever change.
The watch would have a true fully-automatic calendar and auto-DLST capability. Any where in the world the watch is near a PC connected to the Internet, the watch would be often re calibrated for perfect local time and date.
The watches could be digital or analog readout. And add the set-it-and-forget-it possibility of solar power too!
So, how do we propose this to the industry?
