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  • Smart watches – Weird
  • darthpunk
    Free Member

    Are they meant to feel like you’re getting a tiny electric shock to the skin every so often?

    Got a free Google Pixel watch with my new phone and every now and again it feels like an electric shock or someone pulling a hair out of my wrist. First smart watch and it’s going to be the last at this rate

    Pyro
    Full Member

    None of my Garmin watches have ever done that to me, lets put it that way…

    Cougar
    Full Member

    Ah, the old smart watch / cock ring confusion again.

    (No, as a serious answer)

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    DickBarton
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    Only had Garmin watches and never had any shocks…I do have hairy wrists (hairy arms!) and I did get a couple of hair pulls initially, but only once or twice. Haven’t had that issue for a good few years now though.

    Kryton57
    Full Member

    I know a couple of people that have – over a few days – recieved what looks like a minor burn under the green “heart rate” light thingy.

    Or Aliens. Does your bum feel sore?

    seriousrikk
    Full Member

    Neither of my Garmins have ever done that.

    DickBarton
    Full Member

    I think the ‘burn’ is actually sweat…I get it if I’ve upped my attempt at exercise and doing stuff daily…I do tend to sweat and just put it down to excess sweat…I probably need to remember to wash my watch as well as myself!

    impatientbull
    Full Member

    Perhaps it’s the fitness watch equivalent of a choke collar. Were you eating cake at the time?

    dudeofdoom
    Full Member

    Hmmm that would be a good selling point,if the watch gave you a slight tasering on eating too much cake 🙂

    ampthill
    Full Member

    I’m going with hair caught in strap or strap watch interface

    But I’ve never owned a Garmin anything

    I seem to remember a while back that some smart watches were burning people

    scotroutes
    Full Member

    I’ve never experienced this and I’m on my third Garmin. The current Fenix is normally worn around 23 hrs a day.

    matthewlhome
    Free Member

    It does sound odd, but a while ago I tried a polar grit x – which has electrodes on the bottom to determine skin contact I think. I had the sensation you mention and returned it. I am also the person though that finds the hr bump on the back of watches uncomfortable so am not typical I think!

    dyna-ti
    Full Member

    Misfire. Its due to go off after it gets the code from central command

    footflaps
    Full Member

    It does sound odd, but a while ago I tried a polar grit x – which has electrodes on the bottom to determine skin contact I think

    It does, but the current needed to do that is absolutely minuscule, so I doubt you’d notice it – I certainly don’t.

    Poopscoop
    Full Member

    I’ve only had fitbit’s and pebbles but never had the issue you describe op.

    timba
    Free Member

    Static? https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/9237412?hl=en-GB
    Do balloons and fluff stick to you?

    Pieface
    Full Member

    I get phantom notifications, sometimes I think it’s about to vibrate and it’s not, probably all in the head

    flannol
    Free Member

    If you’ve just bought one and it’s the first time having one, you will notice it (with your described sensation) every time it juices up the optical HRM. You get used to it and after a week or so you 100% stop noticing it altogether

    It’s definitely not a shock but at first I thought it was too. Probably something to do with the immediate change in power draw of the unit and it slightly vibrates? Not sure I’m not an electrical engineer

    You might just be hyper sensitive (like me – hence noticing it) to any minor changes in/on the body

    5lab
    Full Member

    Try turning it off and still wearing it. That’ll eliminate electrical stuff from just hairs getting trapped

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