It's a really nice idea, but why buy a watch when you already have a vibrating computer in your pocket?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nedzadhrnj...
Durr: A shivering unisex bracelet that investigates our perception of 5 minutes
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#32From 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…
"Even my Pebble which I'd never wear in the shower is water resistant"
One of the things I love about my Kickstarter Pebble is that I have gone swimming with it, and I've even gone diving down to about 20 feet with it and it still works brilliantly. It's nice to not have to worry about it around water.
I'm definitely a risk taker with electronics and water though. I actually put my new iPhone in a ziplock bag to see if it would make an effective underwater camera while diving. (Just so you know the ziplock bag did succeed in keeping my iPhone safe, but the video was too blurry to be useful because the lens didn't focus right under water.)
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#33I 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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#35Anybody 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])
Probably a lipoly battery this size would work.
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#36It's a really nice idea, but why buy a watch when you already have a vibrating computer in your pocket? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nedzadhrnj...
Does this work in the background, or do you have to have that app running?
For a while I was using an iOS app called BuzzClock. I liked the feature that it would give a different # of buzzes as you went through the hour. I found this helped reduce the need to check the time when I was heads-down on some work, or give a subtle reminder that I might be lingering too long on something.
But having to keep the app in the foreground ultimately killed it for me.
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#37It's a really nice idea, but why buy a watch when you already have a vibrating computer in your pocket? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nedzadhrnj...
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
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#38I 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/
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#39It's a really nice idea, but why buy a watch when you already have a vibrating computer in your pocket? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nedzadhrnj...
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.
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#40Anybody 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?