Comments by "Siana Gearz" (@SianaGearz) on "The Rise of Japanese Watches (& How the Swiss Lost)" video.

@kasuha arguably there's actually more 33khz crystals around than any other. Many devices are outfitted with two crystals, one in the 8-20MHz range for their active mode and a 33KHz one to enable ultra low power interrupt and RTC functionality while the rest of the device is powered down.
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Just don't put the MEMS oscillator in helium.
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Cryptography has a demand for sources of randomness and fundamentally watches can ve used, just like someone is using a video feed of a bunch of lava lamps. But it's not super convenient, when you can trivially make an electronic noise circuit, you just have to amplify the shot noise from a resistor. Modern processors often include such a circuit for true random seed data. Unfortunately the better the watch is, the worse it is as a source of randomness, and a lot of decorrelation is needed for average watches already.
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@steffeneilers8530 wait why. I finished school on a Tozai calculator that cost me 10 DM. It was a Sharp EL-506P clone and it was gorgeous. I wish I could still get one like that in good condition. I mean I can get functionally identical ones for like $4 but aesthetically they are garbage.
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@Enrico- so basically Bulova.
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Yeah if you wanted your phone to tell time in the 80s, you could but it wasn't convenient and would cost you like 40 cents for the premium phone call.
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