Alarm when phone gets out of range, so I know when I just left my phone in a cab.
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#32A super lightweight and low friction app for weight lifting that:
- Lets you track workouts (exercises, weight, number of sets and reps, etc).
- Suggests / coaches you on what exercises to do each workout, what weight to set, how many reps, etc. based on your progress so far in past workouts.
- Acts as resting timer between sets and exercises (without having to switch apps or anything). Bonus points for some kind of alert (vibration? sound?) when you have say 10 seconds left.
Bonus points for: - Automatically counts reps you do based on your arm movements, then starts the resting timer once you stop doing reps. - Accurately records your movement and later corrects your posture (say with squats, etc).
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#33Alarm when phone gets out of range, so I know when I just left my phone in a cab.
Exists, it's called Wear Aware
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#34Remembrall: An app that gives a slight beep or vibration after 1 min, 3 min, 10 min, 30 min, 2 hrs, and 6 hrs. When I want to remember something (like the name of someone I just met) I tell the app and whenever it alerts, I review the fact in my head to refresh my memory.
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#35Anything that is low input and high output.
What I mean is that most apps / wearable tech seem to require lots of manual data input (in my case, MyFitnessPal, Runkeeper, etc.)--although some of this has gotten better with say, tracking steps. Regardless, I feel like a lot of my life is currently data input.
Whatever future app development ideas come to fruition would benefit heavily from having a high level of simplicity and automation on the side of the user while still doing some difficult data crunching that is VALUE added.
I think this is one of the reasons Mint.com is so popular. It requires very little input from the user and quickly generates a LOT of very useful information.
Imagine how useful it would be if my nutrition information, blood pressure, glucose levels, etc. were all recorded for me automatically. Then I wouldn't have to think about them everyday, I could just examine them when I'm curious.
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#36A Bluetooth dongle that tells me when my fly is down.
You could probably figure out if you're dangling without a dongle by using your accelerometer. The key would be to see if there is any measurable difference between your pace when your fly is zipped versus when unzipped. You may need to get seed data by walking around a bit in either state in each of your pants. If it's precise enough, it could then detect which pants you are wearing and the state of the fly based on differences in your movement. If it's not quite there yet, the user could just select pants at the start of the day to use the right data set.
There you go. Build your company.
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#37Stochastic polling - i.e. ask me a user-defined question ("how are you feeling?") at random intervals (6x daily, or 3x daily, randomly).
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#40Part of behavior cognitive theraphy is counting occurrence of negative thoughts throughout the day. So I would like a button that I can press without looking at the watch, and have each press recorded and time stamped. It's not just CBT either, there could be other events you could want to record, like each time you drink water, or some such. Opening phone to do the record is too disrupting, esp if you're with someon…
There's already a counter application on Android Wear :-)