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Re: Pebble Production: February Update

#91

Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

creinhardt wrote: post #84

I wish someone would take all the Fitness sensors of the Apple Watch, and put it in something with a simple e-ink display like these Pebble devices. I don’t care about apps, I just want a thing that measures my heart rate, notifies me if I get a call or text, has more than a couple days of battery life, and that’s it.

> I don’t care about apps, I just want a thing that measures my heart rate, notifies me if I get a call or text, has more than a couple days of battery life, and that’s it.

https://repebble.com/watch says the Pebble Time 2 has

> Heart rate, step and sleep tracking

Isn't that what you want?

Re: Pebble Production: February Update

#92

Post by drum55 »

jsheard wrote: post #81
drum55 wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s not really correct, modern color eink displays actually change color, there’s different pigments inside each cell and others are created visually using dithering. Only the older type are monochrome displays with a color filter behaves like you’re describing. https://www.eink.com/tech/detail/How_it_works

Multi-pigment panels exist but in practice nearly all color e-readers still use the filter-based panels, because they are so much cheaper. There are zero Kindle or Kobo models with the multi-pigment technology.

The ReMarkable devices are E Ink Gallery 3 multi pigment display, I have one on my desk.

Re: Pebble Production: February Update

#93

Post by LeifCarrotson »

Lutzb wrote: post #89
creinhardt wrote: post #84

I wish someone would take all the Fitness sensors of the Apple Watch, and put it in something with a simple e-ink display like these Pebble devices. I don’t care about apps, I just want a thing that measures my heart rate, notifies me if I get a call or text, has more than a couple days of battery life, and that’s it.

Garmin watches might fit your requirements.

I've been a Garmin user for 14 years and I wish someone would take the GPS, heart rate, and IMU sensors out of my Fenix and put it in an open-source product.

But GPS is really hard to get right, especially if you want weeks of battery life.

Garmin have been a decent company (in the ethical/moral sense) to be a customer of for many years, but I think they're slowly losing that reputation. Yes, my 2018 hardware still does everything it did in 2018, no, I don't pay for or currently have a need for Connect+, but they're running out of hardware optimization opportunities to push people to new devices, and appear to be seeking alternative ways to maintain growth.

Re: Pebble Production: February Update

#94

Post by stavros »

p1nkpineapple wrote: post #88
stavros wrote: post #67

I'm really excited about the Index. I don't love that it's disposable, but I really like the UX. I couldn't wait, so I made my own (obviously not a ring, but airtag-sized), and it's amazing. I have it in my pocket, I take it out, speak a little note, and it goes off to my AI assistant for whatever needs doing. That and the AI assistant have really changed how I operate day to day. I'm super excited about the Index, a…

can you give some more detail about the airtag-sized device you made? This is exactly what I've been thinking about doing to test the "idea" of the Index, but haven't figured out how to go about doing it. (Tried looking on your blog, but ended up instead reading your article about the little ESP8266 clock which convinced me to buy one to play with myself, thanks!)

Sure, I haven't written it up, but the code is here:

https://github.com/skorokithakis/middle

I'll take some photos, it's larger now than it will be, because I don't have a MEMS mic (and a small battery). It looks like this now:

https://imgz.org/iACAKWj2/

Re: Pebble Production: February Update

#95

Post by jsheard »

drum55 wrote: post #92
jsheard wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Multi-pigment panels exist but in practice nearly all color e-readers still use the filter-based panels, because they are so much cheaper. There are zero Kindle or Kobo models with the multi-pigment technology.

The ReMarkable devices are E Ink Gallery 3 multi pigment display, I have one on my desk.

I did say nearly all, and the price of the ReMarkable Pros reflects on how expensive the Gallery panels still are.

Re: Pebble Production: February Update

#96

Post by tanin »

Is there a watch that looks like Pebble or Garmin Venu (e.g. small and square) that is good for navigation? I want to walk and look at the watch to see which direction to go next. It would be great for traveling in a foreign city.

Re: Pebble Production: February Update

#97

Post by nine_k »

tanin wrote: post #96

Is there a watch that looks like Pebble or Garmin Venu (e.g. small and square) that is good for navigation? I want to walk and look at the watch to see which direction to go next. It would be great for traveling in a foreign city.

At a different angle: can there be a "watch face" that shows a bit of map, and directions, while the proper navigation app is running on the phone?

Re: Pebble Production: February Update

#98

Post by justapassenger »

LeifCarrotson wrote: post #93
Lutzb wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Garmin watches might fit your requirements.

I've been a Garmin user for 14 years and I wish someone would take the GPS, heart rate, and IMU sensors out of my Fenix and put it in an open-source product. But GPS is really hard to get right, especially if you want weeks of battery life. Garmin have been a decent company (in the ethical/moral sense) to be a customer of for many years, but I think they're slowly losing that reputation. Yes, my 2018 hardware still d…

Watches are now roughly in the same spot as phones - form factory is largely complete and each new version is a small iteration over previous generation, with changes that most people don’t care about.

That being said - feature I LOVE added recently-ish that made really happy I’ve upgraded my many years old garmin was a flashlight (proper one, not screen brightness). It seemed like a gimmick but it’s now one of most used features on my watch - walking dog at night, looking for kids toys under the bed, fixing things around the house, looking for things in the bag, etc.

Re: Pebble Production: February Update

#100

Post by richardlblair »

stavros wrote: post #67

I'm really excited about the Index. I don't love that it's disposable, but I really like the UX. I couldn't wait, so I made my own (obviously not a ring, but airtag-sized), and it's amazing. I have it in my pocket, I take it out, speak a little note, and it goes off to my AI assistant for whatever needs doing. That and the AI assistant have really changed how I operate day to day. I'm super excited about the Index, a…

I too am very excited. I had a voice recorder laying around and have worked that into my workflow over the past few months. Although, my AI assistant is a cobbled together set of python scripts.

What are you using for your AI assistant?

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