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This reminds me of feelSpace[1]. It is a belt which has vibrating motors all around it and a compass. I believe the point is to give you an extra "sense" which after you have worn it enough you incorporate with your other senses. [1] - http://feelspace.cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de/
The gods confound the man who first found out
how to distinguish hours! Confound him, too,
who in this place set up a sundial,
to cut and hack my days so wretchedly
into small portions! When I was a boy,
my belly was my sundial — one surer,
truer, and more exact than any of them.
This dial told me when ’twas proper time
to go to dinner, when I had aught to eat;
But nowadays, why even when I have,
I can’t fall-to unless the sun gives leave.
The town’s so full of these confounded dials
the greatest part of the inhabitants,
shrunk up with hunger, crawl along the street.
I think a lot of its cost comes from the fact that the device is made in Oslo. In Norway, labor prices are upwards of $125 USD per hour. If hamburgers are $50 there, then it makes sense that this thing is priced like a couple of hamburgers.
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I was thinking the same thing but could you imagine your phone vibrating in your pocket every 5 minutes? If I didn't expect my phone to also vibrate for phone calls and messages all day long, an app would be viable... sadly, you probably need to distinguish in an obvious way
Might be workable if you have the option to change the vibration pattern to something clearly distinct from a notification.
I was thinking maybe an audio queue... haha http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyBSrBqogPY&noredirect=1
From TFA: > how time flies by when you enjoy yourself, and drags along when you wait in line at the post office
I suspect my experience at the post office be made worse by the fact that there's something vibrating on my wrist reminding me of how long I've been waiting?
I think a lot of its cost comes from the fact that the device is made in Oslo. In Norway, labor prices are upwards of $125 USD per hour. If hamburgers are $50 there, then it makes sense that this thing is priced like a couple of hamburgers.
A McDonalds meal in Oslo would cost you around $15, about double what you'd pay in London or NYC. It's expensive, but not $50 expensive.
I think a lot of its cost comes from the fact that the device is made in Oslo. In Norway, labor prices are upwards of $125 USD per hour. If hamburgers are $50 there, then it makes sense that this thing is priced like a couple of hamburgers.
Your figures are quite a bit off. A Big Mac is $7.51[1], and the average wage in Norway is around $6440 a month[2], or around $40 an hour (based on a 170 hour work month). They are high - they're nowhere near as high as you're making out. [1]: http://www.economist.com/content/big-mac-index [2]: http://www.ssb.no/en/lonnansatt/
From TFA: > Oh, and no, it's not waterproof, so don't shower with it. Water resistance just seems to be a requirement these days - even my Pebble which I'd never wear in the shower is water resistant so when I am forced to react to a bath incident, I don't worry about the watch, and my kids instead. Sounds like a pet project - maybe they should hire a real watch designer who can get them from hobby to actual product…
This reminds me of feelSpace[1]. It is a belt which has vibrating motors all around it and a compass. I believe the point is to give you an extra "sense" which after you have worn it enough you incorporate with your other senses. [1] - http://feelspace.cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de/
It was interesting to wear and after some time it started to feel like a "sixth sense".
Anybody that wants one of these: this looks like it would be /trivially/ easy to build. An attiny85 and a vibration motor would do it. The only "hard" part would be fitting a battery in this form factor. Go to your local hackerspace during some open hours, and tell the hackers you want to build one of these. I bet they'll do it with you! (Hell: I'LL do it with you if you come down to heatsync labs [in Phoenix])
I'm not a hardware person; could you explain to me why a watch battery wouldn't work in this case. Is it just too low power?
The "problem" with this is how long it will run for. A watch battery, or a coin cell doesn't have much current capacity.