Shine: Elegant Activity Tracker With A Neat iPhone Syncing Trick

http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/14/shine-misfit-wearables/

by replicatorblog • 14 years ago

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sgdesign• 14 years ago

How does that syncing thing actually work? Light flashes? Vibrations?

Light or Vibration were both of my guesses as well. I personally think that wireless is better. The new Fibit syncs over bluetooth 4.0 and it uses very little power while doing so.

tehwebguy• 14 years ago

Not sure how it's communicating with the phone.

Maybe it's the tech from that company that uses songbird-like sounds to communicate back and forth?

andreyf• 14 years ago

How is this going to charge, I wonder?

gallamine• 14 years ago

They could potentially do wireless inductive charging through the same coil they (hypothetically) use to do magnetic communication. That, or the top/bottom half of the device are isolated and act as the -/+ terminals (probably wouldn't be good for the swimming application though).

namank• 14 years ago

Think it must use the magnetometer.

It's interesting that compatibility is iOS5+ and Android 4+

Shine: Elegant Activity Tracker With A Neat iPhone Syncing Trick

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