I didn't see this anywhere on your website: is the watch water-resistant? I know you're focused on the programmable aspects of the watch but to me this is important information.
Show HN: Our new $149 hackable Bluetooth wristwatch
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#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
From http://www.getinpulse.com/faq/ What is the battery life like? With aggressive power management (turning the screen off most of the time and leaving bluetooth disconnected), it can be up to 3 days. If bluetooth is constantly connected with the screen turning on periodically for alerts, you can expect 25 - 30 hours. If you have a processor-intensive application and are using the full capabilities of the screen non…
The _state_ of battery technology is the biggest issue _for_ inPulse. There's not much they can do, given the lack of viable battery technology available. They _might_ be able to save a decent amount of battery life by using e-paper, but you lose color, and I'm not sure in practice you'd end up saving much power over the OLEDs they're currently using.
Blame other interesting things you might want to wirelessly communicate with for standardizing on power-hungry Bluetooth rather than using a lower-power wireless tech (zigbee, ANT, etc) instead/additionally.
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#143Very cool stuff !
I think something like this, but bigger and wall mountable would be very neat. The obvious use case for startups is to use it as a dashboard with your most important metric for display - for example your google analytics traffic stats.
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ok first question: Why only one button? Two would have been really nice for most things (like back and forward in powerpoint/itunes). Edit: Another one: Why don't you ship outside the US/Canada? I considered buying one, but I'm in Germany :(
We choose one button to keep it simple (and quicker to get to market). You can do a lot of things with just one button, just look at the single button on the iPhone! For example, you can do two actions, like click and click-hold.
I've experimented with using a single button (a Griffin Powermate, actually) to control all of my electronics: one tap toggles the lights, three taps changes lighting scenes, press and hold/five taps turns the projector on or off, eight taps toggles "party mode," ... I'm quite convinced that multiple buttons would be better :).
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#145I'm impressed with the price point. It's about what I'd expect a device like this to run if it were a higher-volume product selling through mass-market channels, rather than a low-volume, enthusiast product selling only through the manufacturer's website. Are you guys courting retailers like ThinkGeek?
Do you know of other retailers like ThinkGeek? (I like ThinkGeek, but I'm curious if there are other, similar stores.)
SparkFun, if you're not already aware of it, is only vaguely related to ThinkGeek, but it seems to me anyone looking at a hackable watch would be right at home there.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ok first question: Why only one button? Two would have been really nice for most things (like back and forward in powerpoint/itunes). Edit: Another one: Why don't you ship outside the US/Canada? I considered buying one, but I'm in Germany :(
We choose one button to keep it simple (and quicker to get to market). You can do a lot of things with just one button, just look at the single button on the iPhone! For example, you can do two actions, like click and click-hold.
You could not do much on an iPhone without the touchscreen.
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#147so does this keep a check on one' heart rate and send out an SOS email to Doc/911 if one is dying/drowning/ suffering from a heart attack?
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#148Does this run multiple applications or do you have to plug it in each time you want to run a different app?
One app at a time, right now...but we're working on getting multiple apps running as well! Good point.
So I can't have a watch and notification app running on the watch? Guess you'd have to make them into one application?
If you do get that working, does that mean new hardware?
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#149There is a similar product, Sony Ericsson LiveView, which can be worn as a wristwatch and paired with an Android phone: http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/products/accessories/overvie... Retails for EUR 39.50. I do not own one so cannot say anything about how well it works -- just came across it randomly yesterday when buying something online. If the client is Android-based it is almost certain the protocol can be easil…
Looks like they have some kind of development support for LiveView: http://developer.sonyericsson.com/wportal/devworld/downloads...
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#150So is there a reason you have to send the code to an external server to compile it? Would like to be able to use this a year or so down the line if your server isn't around or is having issues...