stackyFACTSBefore crisp smartwatches, wearing digital time meant desperately draining your battery to see blinding crimson text. The first solid-state digital watches used primitive, highly power-hungry light-emitting diodes, forcing users to press a button just to briefly ignite the display so their battery wouldn't die in three hours.
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