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They are programmable using visual tools that have some guarantees ie generated code won’t crash.
The ecosystem will provide some additional tools such as data logger and OTA updates with a subscription.
Hardware design 80% complete. The software will be difficult.
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You can tell that guy's not a parent, haha. It's a shitload of money, but at least in this case I know that I'm getting value out of it. It's very easy to piss away a fortune on badly-made Chinese plastic trash in the world of baby accessories.
What’s the value? Lol I’ve used the same $250 one for 3 babies now and 0% of them would have noticed “high end materials”.
We were gifted a hand me down and I had to cut the straps and bag it.
We ended up handing down the two infant sized ones we got that were the same model.
Also any car seat involved in a collision needs to be disposed of.
I dislike waste but you don’t mess with car seats and helmets.
Loads of hardware startups, but the communities are not in the Bay, Seattle or NYC. Most of the activity is not being generated by Americans or in America. Lots are being started in India, Dubai and China. Even the ones based out of the US or Singapore spend most of their time in Shenzen. In the US, I routinely see robotics and Healthcare hardware startups in Boston or San Diego, pseudo attached to the local universi…
Agree. Lived in SG for 14 years, worked for hardware startups for 8 of those. There really isn't much going on HW wise.
My experience has been that if you work with the government on a project, as if by magic, ST Engineering comes up with a competing product within 1-2 years.
We are doing a military IoT products, for blue force tracking, supply chain control and low bandwidth datalink operations. Full stack - cases, pcb, firmwares, antennas, software and deployments. Can’t do show as we have only one customer now. As we are working in aggressive environment sometimes it is hard to keep cost in a reasonable range. Also finding a VC or fund interested in dual purpose or military hardware is…
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We're building a closed loop artificial pancreas (think dialysis but for blood sugar) for hospital use -- the first of its kind in the US. There's a massive unmet need; all critical care patients, and all people with diabetes in the hospital could benefit. Studies have shown you can achieve a 30% reduction in mortality, and 25% reduction in length of stay, in addition to the hours per day you save nurses from managin…
Working on self-driving stuff in the Ag-space, though not at a startup, but this is after two hardware startup stints: one doing security related computer vision, and then people sensing for space management. Hardware is fun, but you rarely have the profit margins of a pure software play, so if you're not working on something creating an 'ecosystem', you're upside is probably more limited than a pure sw company. Stil…
Building an inexpensive VOC gas sensor tuned for methyl sulfides, hydrogen sulfides and benzopyrroles with MQTT feature. Currently both price and power draw are too high. If it is business successful, I will add other MQTT enabled wireless devices.
We build downhole electronics. High temperature (175C/350F operation) devices. Multiple circuit boards, sensors, analog and digital, tons of firmware.
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> it's to counter an economic incentive they have. I think economists would call that a feature and not a bug. It is essentially an auction (something economists LOVE). You could instead take that money that you're spending on surveillance and instead spend it on giving the contractors a bonus to show up to your place instead. I really don't buy that this would "shame" them into coming to your place first. Everyone a…
I would imagine shaming doesn't work because I think residential GCs have higher demand for workers than there is supply, but the cameras still solve the problems of making it easier for the GC to react when it happens (and the reaction could be offer to pay that sub more if the project is late or all the other subs have been showing up, realizing the work from the earlier stage wasn't done, and going home, or it cou…
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That’s a pretty naive way to look at it. A lot of patented products have a positive impact on the world, should all of these be shared? What if a small player tries to break into a market with a nee solution? They should give away their IP to the big player purely because it has a positive impact on the world? Just because their product is more safe doesn’t mean they automatically have to share this with everyone. Th…
> A lot of patented products have a positive impact on the world, should all of these be shared? Yes. It’s bad to criminalize innovation. Most patentable innovations are not so unique but only a logical next step given prior inventions. Also, patents favor the big players in any market because they have the money and the will to grind down any newcomers with legal action. The upstart with fewer resources should alway…
Do you want to know what is the active substance of a new medicine? Do you want other researchers to know it and critique it, and build upon it? And for FDA to have easy time learning everything about the medicine? Allow the medicine to be patented.
Otherwise every other factory would start producing it, having not paid anything for years of R&D. Nobody would be able to secure a loan or investment for said R&D, and especially stuff like clinical trials.
The alternative is trade secrets, quakery, and loss of knowledge forever if a particular project fails.
Patents have their downsides. The fee structure could be different (progressive with time), the duration can be discussed, some areas should rather not be patentable (large families of substances, or software), but the idea is pretty sound and important.