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yes, but we will have to source new bricks first. We went with these black bricks because a) they looked cool, b) we could afford them, and c) samples of the bricks passed electric…

see my comment above about noisy electrical signal form the USB charger brick.

We sent this email tonight within an hour of hearing about the first issue. One of our goals as a company is to increase people's quality of life -- starting with sleep. It was imm…

yes the batteries are safe. we believe that the chargers are spitting out a noisy electrical signal, which is causing the battery charger IC on the WakeMate to overheat, thus causi…

We have a comparison chart here: http://wakemate.com/compare/ WakeMate is cheaper, more comfortable, and easier to use. Getting up in the middle of the night won't affect anything.…

WakeMate uses a science called actigraphy to monitor your sleep patterns by measuring the movement of your body (via your wrist). Actigraphy has been used in sleep labs for decades…

i am sorry we are not as perfect as Apple. yet.

not exactly similar. Our product uses Actigraphy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actigraphy ), which is a different method (and in our opinion much less obtrusive) for measuring sle…

when iphone users make up the majority of your preorders (and supposedly market), then yes it does matter. if we had just launched for Blackberry and Android, we would not be havin…

Hey thank for the encouragement! IMO the authentication chip has some details that are very poorly documented (and as a result gave me months of headaches). if you want to talk sho…

don't get me wrong...I am proud of my ability to solder surface mount chips by hand. that said, certain SMT packages (FBGAs, LGAs) are pretty much impossible to solder by hand with…

the surface mount packages we use for the chip components on the WakeMate are a little difficult to solder by hand, unfortunately.

I've updated the blog post to reflect what actually happened... the majority of pre-orders (> 80%), which were through Google Checkout, were never charged; the Paypal pre-orders, h…

We have fully implemented Apple's MFi authentication scheme/protocol for all communication between the iPhone/iPad/iPodTouch platforms and the WakeMate wristband. This involves the…