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by aray 4465 days ago
Anyone know the battery life/lifetime of these? If it's months, that's a lot more convenient to keep in the pantry. As a kitchen appliance it makes a lot of sense, but I don't have any muscle memory for "charging" appliances.
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Here be speculation:

It looks fairly large (plenty of battery room), has no display (not sure about scanner battery usage), and transmits little data over WiFi per use. With it's simplicity, there's no reason they can't use the lowest power MCU and WiFi modules they can find.

All of these have good usability implications, but it looks like battery life was probably also a big design consideration.

I could imagine that it is months. Compare with the kindle that needs charging not even once a month even with frequent use.