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Gann Jerrod posted:Remember Bagel, the smart tape measure? It actually was released, but guess what it doesn't do very well? You know what they say: measure four times, cut three times
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Gann Jerrod posted:Remember Bagel, the smart tape measure? It actually was released, but
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Collateral Damage posted:Show of hands, is anyone surprised at all? I’m surprised they shipped. Does that count?
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Collateral Damage posted:Show of hands, is anyone surprised at all? 
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Sagacity posted:How will you measure the amount of hands? Pen and paper hopefully. The funny thing is, a single good measurement tool that could organise entries easily without a notebook might be a really handy trade tool, but it's kind of moot if you can't even depend on the measurements to millimetre accuracy on short runs. Literally one job, but I guess that's it, people buy tapes with literally one job, that are cheap and suited to their application, be it long run (steel), ease of short run (synthetic), distance (rolling). There's no room in the professional market for something that does them all badly when they're not expensive in the first place.
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Maluco Marinero posted:Pen and paper hopefully. You can buy them all individually as well and save money compared to buying a bagel measure. I have a yardstick and a metal tape measure that goes for everything home improvement and carpentry wise. For measuring circumference or textiles I have a soft plastic tape measure. All of these can measure with an error margin of less than a milimeter, because they're a simple design, just a piece of wood/metal/plastic with lines printed on them with a milimeter between each one. How do you gently caress up such a simple thing? They're even making things harder by having you save the measurements on a flash drive or voice memo instead of just jotting them down on whatever you have handy (usually a piece of wood left over by the saw or the back of some sandpaper or whatever). And of course there's a phone app because why wouldn't your tape measure have bluetooth? This keeps being a pretty accurate parody of the thoughts behind this and other IoT devices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY7i7kj2jO4
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Gann Jerrod posted:Remember Bagel, the smart tape measure? It actually was released, but guess what it doesn't do very well? Irredeemable shitheads if so.
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I wonder if I could launch a successful Kickstarter to fund someone with experience make a thing I want
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Maluco Marinero posted:The funny thing is, a single good measurement tool that could organise entries easily without a notebook might be a really handy trade tool, but it's kind of moot if you can't even depend on the measurements to millimetre accuracy on short runs. Literally one job, but I guess that's it, people buy tapes with literally one job, that are cheap and suited to their application, be it long run (steel), ease of short run (synthetic), distance (rolling). There's no room in the professional market for something that does them all badly when they're not expensive in the first place. Some callipers can connect to a computer to log measurements. It’s useful for things like modelling parts you already have in‐hand.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theklove/klove-knob-the-worlds-first-voice-assisted-cooking Or you could just use your cellphone... Also they're claiming this thing is going to save lives and there's no way that an AI developed for 30K is going to be that reliable or safe.
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Zaphod42 posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theklove/klove-knob-the-worlds-first-voice-assisted-cooking It's going to fill your house with gas during the night.
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Zaphod42 posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theklove/klove-knob-the-worlds-first-voice-assisted-cooking I honestly cannot decide which these people know the least about : AI and HCI; cooking; or stoves.
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Zaphod42 posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theklove/klove-knob-the-worlds-first-voice-assisted-cooking In what situation are you cooking something that can burn easily while not paying attention to it for a long enough period that this would make sense? Plus, for pasta, the ideal use case (still not known for catching fire easily) you still want to take it off the heat source/hot pan, which this does not do. (The answer is 'stoners,' isn't it?)
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Now anyone can cook! As opposed to before when you had to be a trained professional to do it
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yoloer420 posted:It's going to fill your house with gas during the night. I think that's probably for the best
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https://www.kickstarter.com/project...0653079050.p2hi Is this an existing idea that's been rebranded? I find it difficult to believe it's taken until now for someone to invent 'small wooden oval that rolls'
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Tears In A Vial posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/project...0653079050.p2hi He did say somebody already made it and he "refined" it. Holy moly over 10x funding
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Munchables posted:He did say somebody already made it and he "refined" it. Holy moly over 10x funding Oh my bad, I didn't watch the video, just looked at the page.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1282890542/zetime-worlds-first-smartwatch-with-hands-over-tou So you know how those smartwatches are not really all that useful, but the one thing they can do is use the screen to tell the time? What if we went and stuck a classic watch hand on TOP of your screen! Because! But... if you want classic watch hands, why not just get a classic watch? BECAUSE SMARTWATCH. DUHHHHH. quote:Won’t the hands get in the way of the screen?” – no, we’ve got that solved. With our Smart Movement technology, the mechanical hands are controlled by the watch CPU in order to move them if necessary to maximize visibility of the screen. The stupid watch hands that don't need to exist anyways are actually a problem, but we fixed it! So obviously this thing succeeded and made over $500k in funding.
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Hey, did anybody else back Dan Luvisi's Popped Culture?
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Tears In A Vial posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/project...0653079050.p2hi It's like the fidget cube wasn't loud and autistic enough so they made something you could alienate the whole office with e lmao the sound in that video, there's no excuse for this level of shitiness in 2017
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Zaphod42 posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1282890542/zetime-worlds-first-smartwatch-with-hands-over-tou Because it can look like a regular clock and you don't have to be "the smartwatch guy/gal"? I'm wearing a smartwatch with physical watch hands right now, sans touch screen, but with bluetooth time syncing, step counter, swimming recognition, vibrating alarm and a few more simple features. One of the main selling points for me with that watch was that it did the few simple tasks I wanted but still looked like a normal watch so I wouldn't be "the smartwatch/fitbit guy". Of course, no touch screen also means the battery lasts almost a year, and that was also a big selling point to me.
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Collateral Damage posted:What watch is that? This one. I didn't link it because I wouldn't want to sound like a paid shill.
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kjetting posted:Because it can look like a regular clock and you don't have to be "the smartwatch guy/gal"? Also your watch is more of an analog fitbit. The Kickstarter watch still has apps and touch and stuff on display, I doubt it's gonna fool anyone.
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kjetting posted:Because it can look like a regular clock and you don't have to be "the smartwatch guy/gal"? You're confusing a hybrid smartwatch for what that is. It's a straight up smartwatch with hands bolted to it. There's a touchscreen on it and a display that needs to be on for it to display a watch face.
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My sister was talking about some pet glove you hooked water into to clean your dog with and it sounded dumb and annoying to have to deal with. Does anyone know what I'm talking about and am I right or wrong.
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kjetting posted:Because it can look like a regular clock and you don't have to be "the smartwatch guy/gal"? No dude, you don't get it. kjetting posted:This one. I didn't link it because I wouldn't want to sound like a paid shill. I kinda like this. Its an analog watch that is "smart" and connects to your phone. Cool. That is not what the kickstarter is. its literally an electronic pixel touchscreen that somebody drilled clock hands into the middle of.  They just drilled watch hands right into a screen.  WHY. It is not "so you're not the smarwatch guy". It is so "you're the smartwatch guy AND the fancy watch guy" which makes you twice the douche. Zaphod42 has a new favorite as of 08:21 on Mar 29, 2017 |
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ChaseSP posted:My sister was talking about some pet glove you hooked water into to clean your dog with and it sounded dumb and annoying to have to deal with. Does anyone know what I'm talking about and am I right or wrong. ShamPaw Dog Washing Glove? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1PIwe-_lPg
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Wait is there actually some stigma against people wearing smart watches? At least, beyond being a prime target to mug?
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Leal posted:Wait is there actually some stigma against people wearing smart watches? At least, beyond being a prime target to mug? They’re the new Bluetooth headsets, apparently.
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Zaphod42 posted:No dude, you don't get it. Wait, the watch hands are just sitting out there in the open? There's uh, a reason every single other analog watch ever has them under glass, and that's because those things are going to catch on something and bend or snap off within of a week of unboxing it.
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Known Lecher posted:Wait, the watch hands are just sitting out there in the open? There's uh, a reason every single other analog watch ever has them under glass, and that's because those things are going to catch on something and bend or snap off within of a week of unboxing it. Nah, that's just him drilling the hands onto the screen. If you look at the second picture, that whole bit still goes under a touchpad and then under a glass screen. But its gotta have all the mechanics of the watch movement plus all the eletronics of the smart watch and screen, it'll require tons of battery charging AND you'll have to keep it wound in order to maintain time, and even they admit the hands get in the way of reading the screen, so the hands have to be smart and move to be horizontal so you can read things, in which case they don't tell the time and just block some of your middle pixels from being used. You're spending tons of money to make a thicker watch that has no real advantage over a standard watch or a smartwatch depending upon what you want, and you're ruining half the pixels of the smartwatch screen. If you want a smartwatch, use the screen to show hands. If you want an analog smart watch, get one of those.
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Zaphod42 posted:But its gotta have all the mechanics of the watch movement plus all the eletronics of the smart watch and screen, it'll require tons of battery charging AND you'll have to keep it wound in order to maintain time, and even they admit the hands get in the way of reading the screen, so the hands have to be smart and move to be horizontal so you can read things, in which case they don't tell the time and just block some of your middle pixels from being used. If it scoots the hands out of the way, I don't think it has a mechanical movement inside.
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Zaphod42 posted:No dude, you don't get it. I stand corrected. I was mostly trying to make the point that people have several different reasons for buying something, and I noticed that this one had some pictures where it displayed a straight watch face or single color. You could also imagine someone wanting this because it displays the time no matter what else you're looking at, and not in a small box that shows digital time. I'm not disputing that it's a stupid idea and I would never have bought it myself. I was just trying to think of a reason why someone would buy this thing. Most touchscreen watches also have the option to display something that looks like the face and hands of an analog clock, which makes it even more stupid.
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Leal posted:Wait is there actually some stigma against people wearing smart watches? At least, beyond being a prime target to mug? A lot of the designs out there are very gaudy or chunky, and so they draw attention in an unwanted/unfashionable way.
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unpacked robinhood posted:It's like the fidget cube wasn't loud and autistic enough so they made something you could alienate the whole office with Except that has specific functions designed to be silent in order not to annoy folks during meetings, etc. ChaseSP posted:My sister was talking about some pet glove you hooked water into to clean your dog with and it sounded dumb and annoying to have to deal with. Does anyone know what I'm talking about and am I right or wrong. There's ShamPaw linked upthread, but there's several different grooming gloves out there, unsure if any came via KS. Sounds like assistive technology and/or a way for the dog to feel more comfortable about getting washed.
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Except that has specific functions designed to be silent in order not to annoy folks during meetings, etc. lol yeah let me juggle this little plastic bottle on the table while we talk shop at work I didn't know it could be silent but in the video its KLAK KLAK KLAK vvv I thought he was talking about the desk juggling thing unpacked robinhood has a new favorite as of 18:58 on Mar 29, 2017 |
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unpacked robinhood posted:lol yeah let me juggle this little plastic bottle on the table while we talk shop at work The fidget cube is silent, not this new thing.
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