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Minimal Ring Alarm Clock for Couples
- dlsym 14y agoAugust 29th, 2011 yawn
- davidlumley 14y agoIt's older than that - http://techcrunch.com/2007/07/10/ring-the-alarm-clock-you-wear/ http://techcrunch.com/2007/07/10/ring-the-alarm-clock-you-we...
- csaba 14y agoSh*t up, and take my money! Why this is not a real product? "Concept award 2008"?
- montecarl 14y agoIt appears that the effort and skills required to follow through with a product vision and take it to market are greater than or equal to those required for its conception.
- thatjoshguy 14y agoIt kind of already is http://store.apple.com/us/product/H6334VC/A/lark-un-alarm-clock-and-sleep-sensor http://store.apple.com/us/product/H6334VC/A/lark-un-alarm-cl...
- lsiebert 14y ago2011, And yet it uses the phrase, "Deaf Mutes"
- Poiesis 14y agoThe copy elsewhere on the page suggests that English is not the native language of the person writing the copy.
- cpeterso 14y agoWhat is a more appropriate term? Also, I understand how this product benefit deaf people, but I don't understand how it would be any more useful to mute people than non-mute people.
- blvr 14y ago>>>What is a more appropriate term? According to Wikipedia, just 'deaf'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaf-mute http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaf-mute I'll resist the urge to rant about political correctness.
- davidarkemp2 14y agoTo quote Richard Herring: This political correctness stick is brought up on these occasions to ridicule a world where you can't say certain things any more. But this stuff isn't about this invented construct of PCness - does anyone claim to be politically correct? It's just a pejorative term invented by people who want to still be racist and old-fashioned. It's about respecting people whatever their background and not making sweeping and offensive statements about them based on the colour of their skin or where they come from or their disability, sexuality or gender. http://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/?id=2299 http://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/?id=2299
- jayferd 14y ago"Deaf-mute" has mostly fallen out of usage, much like other once-commonplace derogatory classifiers such as "colored", "oriental", and "savage". Generally speaking, "deaf" = physically deaf, i.e. unable to hear, and "Deaf" = culturally Deaf, i.e. part of a visual-culture / signing linguistic group. Big-D Deafness does not necessarily imply little-d deafness, nor the other way around. Children of Deaf adults, for example, often learn a signed language before an auditory one, despite being physically able to hear. And sadly, many physically deaf children are still deprived of language until quite late in their development. And, as always, if a Deaf person tells you something that contradicts me, that person is right. For more info, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaf_culture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaf_culture
- __alexs 14y agoIts not future if it has sockets. Even today this is almost doable with Qi wireless charging and NFC.
- paul-woolcock 14y agoLooks like the design is actually from 2008, so it's actually the past
- shpoonj 14y agoLooks like more bedside table clutter... What problem does this solve? Your significant other doesn't care for you enough to wake up for fifteen seconds when your alarm goes off? You need a divorce, not more crap.
- noirman 14y agoIt's thoughtful, useful and minimal. Why isn't this popular yet?
- rplnt 14y agoBecause the ring will slip from the top of your finger during the night. Not very practical.
- adrianhoward 14y agoBecause it's a series of pretty picture - not an actual working product.
- ZoFreX 14y agoBecause creating something in Maya doesn't equate to designing a product?
- lukeholder 14y agoI have one of these, which is more practical and a real product: http://www.lark.com/ http://www.lark.com/
- Groxx 14y agoI'm still looking for one that gives me some kind of access to the raw data. I don't suppose this does?
- AhtiK 14y agoIf you're fine by wearing a headband while sleeping then Zeo [1] is your new friend with raw data. After some soldering I even managed to get the live serial output to my laptop with a python app. [1] http://www.myzeo.com/sleep/shop/featured-products/zeo-sleep-manager-bedside.html http://www.myzeo.com/sleep/shop/featured-products/zeo-sleep-...
- lsc 14y agohuh. man. if there was a way to hook that to my pager, I'd seriously consider buying an i-device just for that.
- nodata 14y agoReview please! Edit: no Android version? Edit2: charge every day?
- mnicole 14y agoJawbone's Up is a bracelet that does this too - http://jawbone.com/up/product http://jawbone.com/up/product My roommate was using one for a little bit, not sure how he feels about it now but I know he was frustrated that there wasn't wireless data syncing.
- zbyszek 14y agoAt the risk of being patronising towards someone using English as a foreign language, to my mind the best thing is the text accompanying the cartoon story: "The piteous woman is disturbed. A sweet dreaming is broken. She is feckless in the hospital". For some reason I find that utterly charming.
- chris_wot 14y agoFunny, I felt the same! My favourite Portugese to English phrasebook of all time, incidentally, is English As She Is Spoke, which I learned of in Stephen Pile's book, The Book of Heroic Failures, where he comments: "Is there anything in conventional English which could equal the vividness of 'to craunch a marmoset'?"
- freehunter 14y agoPiteous and feckless are fairly uncommon words in English as well. Speaking a foreign language, I know there are some books that offer some... odd translations to words that are hardly ever used in that language anymore. I would guess this person learned English from an older book teaching proper English.
- phatbyte 14y agoKind of reminds me of this: http://www.instash.com/ring-clock http://www.instash.com/ring-clock
- circlefavshape 14y agoHusband and wife are never awake at the same time. Doesn't sound like a fun marriage
- ars 14y agoI don't follow. Because they don't wake up at the same time that means they are never awake at the same time? Each of them would have to sleep more than 12 hours each day for that to even be possible.
- circlefavshape 14y agoSorry, never awake and not-at-work at the same time He gets home from work at 6pm, she's been at work since 2pm He goes to bed at 10pm, she finishes work at midnight He starts work at 8am, she's still asleep There's always weekends I suppose :(
- Toenex 14y agoGreat! Now all I need are some products to allow me to get dressed in the dark; quieten opening draws and wardrobes; silence the noise I make as I hop around the bedroom trying to get my left foot in a sock; stop the floorboards from creaking...
- mleonhard 14y agoMarpac Sleepmate can help with this. I've been using one for about five years. Occasionally I go to sleep without turning it on and invariably my sleep is interrupted by noise from outside or another room. http://www.marpac.com/ http://www.marpac.com/
- webmonkeyuk 14y agoDon't try picking your nose at night...
- eridius 14y agoYet another concept product that's never going to see the light of day.
- funkydata 14y agoHas anybody ever read "Quelqu'un d'autre" from Tonino Benacquista? This directly stems from an invention in the book.
- amalag 14y agoIs it a real problem? My wife sets her alarm clock around 6am and i almost never notice it. I sleep through till 7-8am.
- run4yourlives 14y ago36 comments and nobody figures out that you could do this with the phone you already have?
- chii 14y agohow do you do this with a phone without accidentally crushing it during you sleep?
- michaelcampbell 14y agoI find the idea fascinating, and would do wonders for my relationship... but I doubt I would be able to get a tension on the thing that would be soft enough to not bother me during wearing it, but strong enough to keep it on all night.