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It's a good start, but it may serve best to remind us of the limitations of basic technology. Instead of an X detector, what we have is an X detector detector. From a design perspective this is obviously odd. On the other hand, in a sense it's a multi-detector, since in theory it should respond to detectors of many sorts. There are some upsides to that.
Vibrating for it to wake you means you need to keep it close to your body. I wonder what health implications it may have -- In general its really bad to have a cell phone touching your body for prolonged periods of time because of the radiation it emits.
Sleeping 8 or more hours next to it is just going to compound the issue, but this is already something people don't seem to care that much about...at least in practice.
Vibrating for it to wake you means you need to keep it close to your body. I wonder what health implications it may have -- In general its really bad to have a cell phone touching your body for prolonged periods of time because of the radiation it emits.
>FDA states that "the available scientific evidence does not demonstrate any adverse health effects associated with the use of mobile phones."
http://www.fda.gov/Radiation-EmittingProducts/RadiationEmitt...
Vibrating for it to wake you means you need to keep it close to your body. I wonder what health implications it may have -- In general its really bad to have a cell phone touching your body for prolonged periods of time because of the radiation it emits.
I would really like to see a citation for that!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_radiation_and_heal...
Thanks!
This is fascinating. What do deaf people normally do in lieu of alarm clocks?
My girlfriend is partially deaf in one ear, so sometimes she will oversleep if she is lying on her good ear. A while back I built her an Arduino-powered alarm clock that uses a servo to repeatedly poke her with a foam finger (those big hands you wear at football games). It was a shoddy prototype, but the cool part was it synchronized with her iCal calendar. So, to answer your question, some [partially] deaf people us…
Hi alexvr, a bit out of topic question: How did you manage to get the background sound analysis approved? I have an app that does also sound analysis in the background for a different purpose and it gets constantly rejected because of that. Thanks!
This sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen. I think it's a great idea, but at 2.99 I don't think it's going to be profitable enough to take on the lawsuit risk.
EDIT: I think it would be a good idea to remove the language about fire alarms etc. and only mention alarm clocks and the like. It would be much harder to sue if the app didn't claim to respond to fire alarms.
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I would really like to see a citation for that!
Google it. It's all over the internet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_radiation_and_heal...
The wiki page even says: The WHO added that "to date, no adverse health effects have been established as being caused by mobile phone use."
As far as I can tell there has, to date, not been a single proper study that actually showed any effects. Just a bunch of fearmongering and cases like this: http://retractionwatch.com/2012/03/26/rabbits-neednt-worry-a...
This sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen. I think it's a great idea, but at 2.99 I don't think it's going to be profitable enough to take on the lawsuit risk.
EDIT: Let me preface by saying, the fact that a person could be sued for creating an app that creates a solution where few or none existed is both utterly ridiculous and highly likely. Which is why I think... ...There needs to some kind of legislation/regulation on lawsuits. Perhaps, the plaintiff must pay the legal fees for the defendant upfront, up to a maximum of 5% of the desired damages being sought. Example: If…
I don't think suits against game manufacturers like this necessitate any kind of legislation. Why? Simple. Like my lawyer told me when I was building my first app- "Sure you COULD get sued, but you don't have two nickels to rub together. No attorney would take a case against you." In business getting sued is a good thing. It means you're successful.