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In light of a recent HN discussion on the incomprehensibility of many product pages and "Show" posts[1], I think it's worth noting that this is a very clear page that lets me know exactly what the product is, how much it costs, and how to get it. :-) [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7489870
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Appropriately placed, almost certainly. A 75 Candela strobe in a bedroom is pretty much impossible to sleep through.
I'm curious - can't doctors tell if people are asleep/unconscious by shining light into the eye to look for dilation? Why wouldn't that also wake them? And on another note, it seems like emergency alarm systems should alert people in a number of different ways. Apparently it's not unusual for kids to sleep through regular household smoke detector alarms.
You can't tell if someone is awake based on pupillary light reflex.
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Maybe marpalmin was recording and storing big audio files, which might be a privacy issue I assume (if the user forgets the app is running in the background and ends up recording sensitive/private info). On the other hand I assume that you don't need to keep long audio samples to run your alarm-recognition algorithm and just discard the audio almost right away. That's just a wild guess of course, it would just seem r…
I'm not storing audio. Just audio analysis, of course I have a small buffer but that's normal for realtime audio anaylsis. I'm using it to detect footsteps.
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I use a vibrating alarm clock. It's a regular alarm with a wire going to a bed shaker (a 3/4" high disk with a vibrating mechanism inside - much like the ones in game controllers). The shaker is located between the mattress and box spring under my head. Sometimes it startles me awake, which is an unpleasant feeling, but it works for me all the time. And, given that we have a foam mattress, the buzzing is absorbed eno…
Never heard of this product, can you link me please? It's what I've always wanted
I recently discovered Bellman & Symfon, a Swedish company that has some very attractive (naturally) products. Their vibratating/flashing alarm clocks integrate with wireless smoke detectors. I can easily get a stand-alone strobed smoke detector in just my bedroom, but that doesn't help if the other end of the apartment is in flames. http://www.bellman.com/en/our-solutions/fire-safety-solution...
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As someone who's deaf (not Deaf) thank you for making it. Sadly, the vibration the iPhone makes isn't strong enough for me but this is an awesome idea and I hope you succeed with it!
You're welcome, and thank you for the comment. I noticed this as well; I'm definitely searching a way to make the vibration more noticeable. Someone else suggested abandoning the mobile phone platform altogether to make a more robust product in general. If not me, maybe Nest will do something like this with their smoke detectors. They're already connected to wifi, so it would just take a wifi-enabled vibrator do the…
If you're deaf, how do you transfer the vibrations of the phone to your senses? Sleep with the phone on you somehow?
under the pillow
Unfortunately if I keep my iPhone to the side of the mattress, the vibrations aren't strong enough.
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under the pillow
I used to keep my cellphone under my pillow when I was on-call, but I don't like the idea of zapping my head with direct radio signals for 8 hours at a time. Unfortunately if I keep my iPhone to the side of the mattress, the vibrations aren't strong enough.