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Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain

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Re: Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain

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Post by bronson »

BoredPositron wrote: post #197
graypegg wrote: post #74

Hmm... I sort of would've preferred it was JUST a button. I wonder if you could even make it perpetually powered by body heat + buffer battery if it's ONLY job was to emit a couple packets over BLE with some burned in ID that you save on the watch. I don't know how efficient peltier elements are going to be on such a small area, but the cold side would be attached to a big metal ring, which feels like an adequate hea…

Like the oldschool tv clickers? Piezo should be enough.

As long as the receiver is always-on and always listening. Easy when plugged into the wall, like a TV. Not so easy when it's on battery.

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Post by jdranczewski »

tekacs wrote: post #146
graypegg wrote: post #74

Hmm... I sort of would've preferred it was JUST a button. I wonder if you could even make it perpetually powered by body heat + buffer battery if it's ONLY job was to emit a couple packets over BLE with some burned in ID that you save on the watch. I don't know how efficient peltier elements are going to be on such a small area, but the cold side would be attached to a big metal ring, which feels like an adequate hea…

This reminds me of Pebble Core. Does anyone but me remember that? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/getpebble/pebble-2-time... It was one of the devices I was most excited about way back when, and I'd still love to see it – button, headphone jack, running Android. I would love a headless (and thus longer-charge-for-smaller-device) Android device like that again.

Yes! The ring reminded me of the Core too. Perhaps with voice processing and the infrastructure around MCP (which I haven't used myself, but Eric brings up in the blog) a fully headless, voice-based device like this is more feasible now than in those days

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Post by _79px »

supern0va wrote: post #273
kwanbix wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or better yet. Use your cellphone wich most of us carry 90% of the time?

...and face the seductive allure of all those delicious notifications trying to get me to task switch to a bunch of other things? No, sir. I'm pretty much on board with anything that reduces the number of times I need to light up that phone screen.

Well, you could just turn off unnecessary notifications like I do, same with emails. I get like 3 notifications a day on average now, and most of those are just dms from friends.

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Post by lawn »

I really like a lot of this but I have to agree with the other comments that are complaining about the non-rechargable, non-replaceable battery.

I would actually prefer a device that's twice as expensive but with a battery that you can charge or replace.

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Post by bradleybuda »

rendx wrote: post #269

Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2023 concerning batteries and waste batteries Article 11 Removability and replaceability of portable batteries and LMT batteries 1. Any natural or legal person that places on the market products incorporating portable batteries shall ensure that those batteries are readily removable and replaceable by the end-user at any time during th…

Wow, sucks to bE yoU!

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Post by kstrauser »

rendx wrote: post #269

Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2023 concerning batteries and waste batteries Article 11 Removability and replaceability of portable batteries and LMT batteries 1. Any natural or legal person that places on the market products incorporating portable batteries shall ensure that those batteries are readily removable and replaceable by the end-user at any time during th…

While I sympathize with the intent of the law, this is a great example of why it's dumb. There's no possible way you could make that ring, in a reasonably ring-sized form factor, with today's manufacturing processes in such a way that an end user could replace it.

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Post by twsted »

smiley1437 wrote: post #239
skeledrew wrote: post #226

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because you need to use your other hand to press that button, instead of the adjacent finger.

> Because you need to use your other hand to press that button, instead of the adjacent finger. Funnily enough, I've used my nose to tap my watch when my hands are full Yes, I've gotten some strange looks

I thought I was the only one on Earth to do that (but surely I'm the only boomer doing it).

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Post by 47282847 »

bradleybuda wrote: post #286
rendx wrote: post #269

Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2023 concerning batteries and waste batteries Article 11 Removability and replaceability of portable batteries and LMT batteries 1. Any natural or legal person that places on the market products incorporating portable batteries shall ensure that those batteries are readily removable and replaceable by the end-user at any time during th…

Wow, sucks to bE yoU!

As a European, I actually fully support this regulation!

Re: Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain

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Post by agloe_dreams »

dramm wrote: post #265

Oh look it's a Humane AI Pin without the AI, or rechargeable battery, or ... It's an app. It's an app that will run on somebody else's platform. Putting that in a ring has so marginal benefits (you can't find a phone or computer or notepad or... to record ideas and do it better) and has so many limitations. It's a non-starter.

I mean, this is a textbook over-simplifaction to devalue an idea. Hell, with that logic, you could call all kinds of things a non-starter.

"Why buy a watch, it just shows the time on my phone" "Why buy a car, I can just use uber" "Why buy headphones? My phone has speakers."

The context of where something is changes the idea of what it is. Just become something tells the time, for example, doesn't mean it is the same thing as a watch.

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