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Doesn’t like tattooes, apparently.

There was something in the news yesterday (BBC, i think) about how a chap’s watch would ‘lock up’ whenever he put it on over the tattoo on his wrist.

He though it was a completely dud watch, until he tried it over the un-inked skin on his hand. Worked fine. Put it back over the tatt, and it ‘locks up’.

I didn’t delve much into the story, as i’m not in the least interested in Apple watches, but it should be possible to find it, if you want to see it.

Here it is:

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32537030

I read that article as well. It had to do with the dyes in the tattoos and how some dyes, particularly the darker ones, blocked the watch’s light signal as it pulsed onto the skin.

Divine Angel said:

…blocked the watch’s light signal as it pulsed onto the skin.

How did we ever manage to tell the time before that idea came along?

We had to carry a stick and put it into the ground to measure the shadow. Of course, we were screwed on rainy days and at night.

Divine Angel said:

We had to carry a stick and put it into the ground to measure the shadow. Of course, we were screwed on rainy days and at night.

Gawd. We had chiming repeaters with alarms and chronographs going back hundreds of years. We even had electric clocks. About 2,300 years ago we had the Antikythera. Then going back urther there were water clocks and all. um You know how far back it was when the best we could do was poke a stick in the ground?

About 2,300 years ago we had the Antikythera.

which wasn’t a clock but a computer.

JudgeMental said:

About 2,300 years ago we had the Antikythera.

which wasn’t a clock but a computer.

True but then so is a clock, a computer. Albeit a simple one but one without which modern computing would be lost.

how is a clock a computer?

and the other bit is a non sequitor.

A computer clock is more like a metronome, which keeps the beat for …

i know what the clock in a computer does.

roughbarked said:

Divine Angel said:

We had to carry a stick and put it into the ground to measure the shadow. Of course, we were screwed on rainy days and at night.

Gawd. We had chiming repeaters with alarms and chronographs going back hundreds of years. We even had electric clocks. About 2,300 years ago we had the Antikythera. Then going back urther there were water clocks and all. um You know how far back it was when the best we could do was poke a stick in the ground?

Speaking of sticks, they are an integral part of a hippies clock, metal rubbish bin lid on a piece of rope, bash the lid with the stick, then someone will shout out, “shut up you crazy bugger, don’t you know it’s 3 0’clock in the morning?”

will it blend?

Bet it doesn’t taste like an apple!

At $500 for the cheapest, no thanks