The Immotouch bracelets look like a really good idea and business model — I am considering ordering one to use to stop my nail biting habit. Have you considered replicating this functionality as an app for an existing wearable, e.g. an Apple Watch? I can definitely see that as being a profitable app that would make the world a better place. Selling your own single-purpose wearable is likely harder.
We tried putting it on an Apple Watch years ago but to get the app to work we had to enable fitness mode and that killed the battery too fast to be useful.
Makes sense — I wonder if they’ve gotten better at it, or if there is alternative hardware that allows sufficient streaming accelerometer data to be useful to you instead.
I don’t think it’s a hardware issue per se. The problem was along the lines of “if you want to run software around the clock then we require a complete application to run and that application has a bunch of baggage which wears down the battery”.
Apple Watch might have improved in the years since we tried.
The Immotouch bracelets look like a really good idea and business model — I am considering ordering one to use to stop my nail biting habit. Have you considered replicating this functionality as an app for an existing wearable, e.g. an Apple Watch? I can definitely see that as being a profitable app that would make the world a better place. Selling your own single-purpose wearable is likely harder.
We tried putting it on an Apple Watch years ago but to get the app to work we had to enable fitness mode and that killed the battery too fast to be useful.
Makes sense — I wonder if they’ve gotten better at it, or if there is alternative hardware that allows sufficient streaming accelerometer data to be useful to you instead.
I don’t think it’s a hardware issue per se. The problem was along the lines of “if you want to run software around the clock then we require a complete application to run and that application has a bunch of baggage which wears down the battery”.
Apple Watch might have improved in the years since we tried.