Pebble e-paper watch breaks $4.5m on Kickstarter

[tommo]

Pebble: E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android by Pebble Technology — Kickstarter This looks awesome. Still taking donations for another 30 days. Definitely gonna save up some money and contribute!

[Kitties]

Wow...I don't think it would be quite right for me atm, plus I couldn't afford it, but that's cool. This part caught my interest, too: Want to ... create an app that can monitor your sleep? Pebble can send data from the accelerometer and buttons back up to the internet. Possible LD applications..?

[tommo]

Wow...I don't think it would be quite right for me atm, plus I couldn't afford it, but that's cool. This part caught my interest, too: Possible LD applications..? haha, didn't even see that part, but I suggested that to Ev as soon as I saw it, to integrate with his LD app. Hopefully he does. The vibrating function would be more easily integrated in to dreams than noises I think. Or.... it would wake you up in a less startling way than noises anyway. At least when you get used to it

[Kitties]

Exactly the app I was thinking of, haha. I guess you could either have it vibrate or have it send a signal to your phone to make a noise, depending on your preference.

[tommo]

Exactly the app I was thinking of, haha. I guess you could either have it vibrate or have it send a signal to your phone to make a noise, depending on your preference. Yeah, I imagine that having the accelerometer on the watch and the phone would be extra precise.

[Xei]

What's the deal with this Kickstarter website? It seems like the donors get a bum deal. Free gizmos..? What was wrong with buying shares?

[tommo]

People just want to help. If they're happy to pay for what they get, it's not a bad deal. Some of the projects on there do have options to buy shares. I saw one recently that was $10,000+ and you get shares in the company.

[melanieb]

Holy cow, they raised $10Million :O Looks kinda neat though

[sefalik]

So, without a smart phone it's fairly useless? I mean, it seems cool and all, but I'm surprised how over-funded it is. To me, it just seems like a way to check your phone without reaching in a pocket/purse. All the things you can do with that watch, you can already do with a phone. So if you already have a smart phone... I don't get it. Then again, I'm pretty disgusted with the way most people treat smart phones, so it's highly likely that I won't like anything related to them. BTW, I think Kickstarter is a pretty cool site. I've "backed" a movie. Haven't received it yet (it only ended recently), but basically you are buying a product in advance. It's not a donation. If a product isn't fully funded, you get your money back. And if it is funded, you get whatever you paid for once it's completed.