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Tikker – The wrist watch that counts down your life
- amimetic 13y agoI made a little (free) Android App a couple of years ago that does something similar: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.amimetic.deathclock&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.amimetic.de...
- eterps 13y agoIt needs a progress bar (more visual)
- amimetic 13y agoI hope a progress bar would be too slowly moving to be of any use!
- eterps 13y agoThat's not what I meant. "18262 days" doesn't say much, but a progress meter (or maybe a pie chart with "Life lived" & "Life left") is more informative IMO.
- amimetic 13y agoAh. I agree it would be more informative but also more depressing: a countdown gives you a (inaccurate of course) number of days left to 'make the most of'; showing the number of days done gives you an (accurate) count of days you (perhaps) haven't made the most of. But to be honest the App was something I quickly put together in a few hours and I didn't really consider alternatives to a countdown.
- antonioevans 13y agoCan we level up?
- chunkiestbacon 13y agoSo incredibly depressing. Aren't we reminded enough already everywhere, that it will someday end?
- antonioevans 13y agoI don't believe we are reminded of this at all. People make ridiculous decisions today with no thinking of the future. It's a common fallacy on the mind. We think of our today "self" and not the grander "self" of from birth to death. If you think about the finite-ness of life you've live healthier and more productively.
- robmcm 13y agoI expect it's designed for people who don't think about the future, yet I imagine people like us will end up getting it and just get dipressed every time we have fun rather than preparing out legacy.
- Drakim 13y agoIs simply "not thinking about it" the answer though? It seems to me that a lot of people deal with death by forgetting about it, and avoiding anything that reminds of it.
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- telephonetemp 13y ago"Memento mori" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori) has a long history.
- ourmandave 13y agoI don't need an Expiration Date clock counting down the seconds to remind me to Live Life. When I want to feel depressed, er, motivated I just figure out how many weekends I have left until I'm 78. From all the complaining I hear from people past a certain age there's quality of life issues well before that magic number though.
- Yaa101 13y agoProbably they won't get many customers, this will make many people go :-(
- ck2 13y agoI find "weeks of life" the most familiar repeating pattern. Take a moment to realize there are "only" about 1000 weeks in 20 years. Now think about your weekly patterns and start counting down. Bonus depression for the morning, your chance of cancer doubles every decade.
- kabouseng 13y agoDamn... now I'm depressed :D
- draven 13y agoReminds me of this: http://barefootfts.com/blog/memento-mori http://barefootfts.com/blog/memento-mori which is a bit more visual.
- zacharydanger 13y agoActually, I'd love a generalized countdown clock. Not necessarily for my lifespan, but set it up for goals like, "My side project will be profitable in 2 months."
- jkscm 13y agoDoes a deadline produce better work and happier employees? I doubt that this kind of think will have a motivating a effect. Reminding you of the estimated point in time when your body degraded so much that you will die does not sound great. It's also purely egoistic. How about making some else's life better by doing things you don't like?
- SwaroopH 13y agoFor Pebble owners, a "watch app" would suffice?
- jbrooksuk 13y agoI was thinking about this too...
- exratione 13y agoThe time you have remaining is not a fixed number. It is increasing at about one year every decade at the moment, and that rate of increase might leap dramatically in the near future. You can either be a freeloader, roll the dice and see where the work of other people on medtech takes you, or you can help to increase the amount of time you have left. Participate in initiatives like http://healthextension.co/ http://healthextension.co/, or donate to the SENS Research Foundation. It is interesting to see that in a community ostensibly focused on creating change the first response to length of life line items is usually that length of life and trajectory of life is fixed and immutable.
- lnanek2 13y agoFor a middle class person, they are probably better off saving their money rather than funding life extension research. Having money enough to get good health care in their old age will extend their life more than adding a few dollars to research they would barely speed up thanks to the small amount. Heck, the money might even be needed to buy application of the results of the research. If you are rich, OK, fire away at funding life extension research.
- samnardoni 13y agoI'm pretty sure Karl Pilkington first thought of this idea.
- shitduck 13y agoYES yes and yes!
- kabouseng 13y agoWatching the video I realised I am wasting valuable time watching the video... - Also I would have preferred a grant total of seconds remaining rather than years / months / days / hours etc.
- stavrianos 13y agoBuilt a toy javascript utility along similar lines about a year ago. Breaks down your expected life remaining into blocks by month: http://novorobo.com/projects/hitpoints/index.html http://novorobo.com/projects/hitpoints/index.html.
- mokkol 13y agoDepressing when it turns to 0 seconds. Ok now I'm about to die! If not, I will send a bug report!
- jpswade 13y agoIs this a joke? This sounds like the perfect way to induce anxiety and hopelessness, ultimately resulting in depression. This is a terrible idea.
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- vijayr 13y agodepends on the person, I guess. Some people might think "not much time, so let me not waste it" and some might get stressed/depressed thinking about it, and waste even more time than before.
- TausAmmer 13y agoI love to watch this age to be obsessed with time management, waste, gain or whatever anyone comes up with. Šhow for free, sometimes - too serious.
- trothamel 13y ago"It's occasionally off by a few seconds, what with free will and all." - H. Farnsworth
- pallandt 13y agoAt 1st look this is depressing, but strangely enough they've already raised 16k out of the required 25k, AND there's still 24 days left to go until the end of the campaign. Perhaps the backers are looking at it in a different way: time left to treasure.
- clark-kent 13y agoAs eastern philosophers say: The only time that matters is Now. Now is the only time you can ever use. I agree with other comments this is a terrible idea.