clewiston

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by clewiston 16y ago
yes, but we will have to source new bricks first. We went with these black bricks because a) they looked cool, b) we could afford them, and c) samples of the bricks passed electrical surge and signal quality tests we had performed here in
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by clewiston 16y ago
see my comment above about noisy electrical signal form the USB charger brick.
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by clewiston 16y ago
We sent this email tonight within an hour of hearing about the first issue. One of our goals as a company is to increase people's quality of life -- starting with sleep. It was immediately apparent to us we had to tell our customers, espe
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by clewiston 16y ago
yes the batteries are safe. we believe that the chargers are spitting out a noisy electrical signal, which is causing the battery charger IC on the WakeMate to overheat, thus causing the problem. We have only seen any incidence when the u
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by clewiston 16y ago
We have a comparison chart here: http://wakemate.com/compare/ WakeMate is cheaper, more comfortable, and easier to use. Getting up in the middle of the night won't affect anything. Our analytics system will, however, tell you that you wo
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by clewiston 16y ago
WakeMate uses a science called actigraphy to monitor your sleep patterns by measuring the movement of your body (via your wrist). Actigraphy has been used in sleep labs for decades and is a widely standardized metric of sleep in humans ( h
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by clewiston 16y ago
i am sorry we are not as perfect as Apple. yet.
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Cloud Computing: Google Wave's Failure: 10 Reasons Why(eweek.com)
1 points by clewiston 16y ago|0 comments
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by clewiston 16y ago
not exactly similar. Our product uses Actigraphy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actigraphy ), which is a different method (and in our opinion much less obtrusive) for measuring sleep phases than the Zeo which uses a headband. Also, our un
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by clewiston 16y ago
when iphone users make up the majority of your preorders (and supposedly market), then yes it does matter. if we had just launched for Blackberry and Android, we would not be having these delays...
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by clewiston 16y ago
Hey thank for the encouragement! IMO the authentication chip has some details that are very poorly documented (and as a result gave me months of headaches). if you want to talk shop anytime please feel free to drop me a line at: craig &#6
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by clewiston 16y ago
don't get me wrong...I am proud of my ability to solder surface mount chips by hand. that said, certain SMT packages (FBGAs, LGAs) are pretty much impossible to solder by hand with a conventional iron.
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by clewiston 16y ago
the surface mount packages we use for the chip components on the WakeMate are a little difficult to solder by hand, unfortunately.
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by clewiston 16y ago
I've updated the blog post to reflect what actually happened... the majority of pre-orders (> 80%), which were through Google Checkout, were never charged; the Paypal pre-orders, however, were.
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by clewiston 16y ago
We have fully implemented Apple's MFi authentication scheme/protocol for all communication between the iPhone/iPad/iPodTouch platforms and the WakeMate wristband. This involves the special Apple auth IC you mentioned.
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WakeMate Photo Op(blog.wakemate.com)
57 points by clewiston 16y ago|39 comments