its a bit bulky … slim it up and ill get one

meh, just get a mobile phone wristwatch, lots have a vibrate function

I know I could easily make it display whatever you want wirelessly, no question. even if its’s just through images since it displays those. it isn’t hard to generate an image based on a string. this isn’t like the e-ink magazine cover that didn’t have segments so it can’t display whatever you want. no problems there.

we found that by sending an over sized chunk of data that we could over write the asic’s eip and run code on it.

we made a proof of concept by making one eat it’s owner and open a time portal to the previous 5 minutes.

How about we grow up real quick here and make it display an RSS feed kids? Maybe some stock quotes, that would be slick. Or hey, something people would like, you could follow your sweetie on twitter! (Ok maybe that’s creepy, but it’s what twitter’s for!)

Are we youtube commenters or hack-a-day readers? I’m ordering one up and leaning against it on the sheer principle of the fact that I will do something instead of blabbing my mouth waiting for someone to publish a how to. Hack something you twits!

I’m going to be using my G1 to drive it because I’ve got a little experience with it and it has bluetooth. So meh, let’s see what happens!

@tiuk
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I know I could easily make it display whatever you want wirelessly, no question.
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No question, eh? What happens when the controller is completely proprietary and you can’t read nor modify the firmware? Kinda hosed then…

What if the screen is so “embedded” that it only has a few signals, one “priority” signal that means display “connected”, and a 4 bit + clock interface that feeds a set of shift registers, only allowing numbers 0-9, and god knows what for A-F? Kinda hosed again, no?

Don’t think of one way data interchange; think bidirectional. Use it to have your _other_ device detect your presence. Like maybe have it disable your starter on your car unless it connects to this device, or have it lock the doors when it looses connection. If you live in a small apartment (I guess it would have to be _really_ small) have it shut off the lights and turn the heat down when you leave?

Well that settles that.

ID braclet for home automation. Approaching doors unlocks them. Messages from the house can be passed to the individual wearing the bracelet.

Messages I can think of? “Doorbell”, “Fuel Low”, “Flood”, “Fire”. Alright, so I would likely want something a little more agressive for “Fire”.

Certainly an interesting addition for deaf people – bluetooth messaging within a building, vibrating and flash a message to evac.

hi guys I got a couple responses and decided this would be easier than individually replying. Now I just realized most were not in reply to my post. oh well, here are my responses because i care and take criticism well apparently. I want to share what i know because i have some good ideas and no time to work on stuff like this, so i like to see others do it. it’s why i love this site. i know i could easily learn to do the menial stuff like soldering. i can solder but not well. i have a solid ee background though because it was my father’s career choice, so the knowledge is here, trust me. i won’t say something unless i’m sure of it.

so, mainly i think the questions were about how i would accomplish “displaying whatever i want”, that was directly quoted. anyway, my background is basically how. i’d use the components to learn to build something. i said I “know” because i was in an overly confident mood last night. i meant i know i have that capability, not that it’s necessarily possible with a proprietary undocumented controller. I think with enough examination it would be, probably an oscilloscope would be needed. i think my dad has an old one somewhere. so that’s why i said i know. sorry if you mistook it. any questions i’ll tell you what i think and can probably give you an idea of how to accomplish it.

oh and someone said it’d be hard to work in a dick tracy mode. i agree. i was just saying i could probably manage it somehow. worst case it would be a ton of work to examine it, but chances are the controller is documented, i’ve never done this myself but i’ve studied it and it seems like in most cases the manufacturer is willing to share the necessary information. glad the ee community mostly seems to be about sharing knowledge.

I’m tempted to get one out of curiosity.

anyone kill a cat with one yet?

1 – Reverse engineer the firmware/hardware
2 – Force it to be always in “standby” mode
3 – Write some piece of software that “reads” sms, verify if the sms comes from twitter, and send it to the bracelet :D

What else!? everybody’s connecting something to twitter :D

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Son? Put that soldering iron away before you hurt yourself. And get off my lawn.

Hahahaha, I thought it was a collar at first.

@my last post: didn’t read the article properly… still… I’ll see what can be done

How about setting it to a laptop or desktop and generating a plugin for lcdproc http://lcdproc.org/ so you can get all kinds of information (currently playing song, network stats, whatever). Maybe there’s already a windows app to do something similar? Maybe something like this: http://palmorb.sourceforge.net/

I honestly think what would be sick is to have it programmed with a name on it, (our own name) – and have it virbrate and display the name of someone nearby wearing the same device.

I think that’d be pretty sick, in my opinion.
I’ll get h4xx1ng when I get one.

I just received mine today, and I’ll be looking into it. For the poster that asked about profiles, according to the manual, it supports HSP and HFP. I think you’re right in that HSP to my knowledge doesn’t support callerID, but it probably supports that profile due to the lower-end model, which doesn’t have a screen. I imagine they’re similar hardware – in fact, the package I got actually had a picture of the screenless model on it instead. (It was packaged nicely, by the way).

@fartface:
Your post barely deserves a reply, but for the sake of others, I will. I have the device on my wrist right now, and it’s actually built quite well. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than I expected for the money. The metal parts are supposedly steel (not sure), and the band is some rubbery material, similar to some watch straps, but thicker. As for the so-called “epic fail”, I saw the comment you’re referring to, and if it’s even true, then it isn’t a problem for me. You see, HSP/HFP support switching audio to the handset. On a headset, this is normally done manually; on the bracelet, you can accept/reject the call manually, or you can just flip/slide open your phone, and it automagically switches audio to the handset. Please check your facts next time.

Typically a device like this supports HSP and HFP. Having a display, it could also support PBAP, SPP or SAP if it supports access to your address book. For those interested in something like this, here is a much nicer one.. http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/lcd-bluetooth-vibrating-bracelet-is-a-watch-short-of-awesome/

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so has anyone cracked this thing open yet,
im thinking about doing it and snooping around
with a scope?

Kwakwaversal, what type of bt messages did you send down to the device to get it to vibrate?

I’ve cracked this bracelet open and combined it with my arduino. It has a very nice little battery pack in it. I took the battery and wired it to my arduino for standby power. It has a charging circuit with it so it doesn’t overcharge. I was thinking about connecting my arduino to my front door electronic strike, but with the bracelets not so secure bluetooth pin, I probably won’t. I’ve been looking for the battery pack online but cannot find it anywhere. The vibrating motor I’ve found online, but I really don’t need that for anything.
The battery would be usefull for a project I’m working on. I’d rather not buy a bunch of bracelets just to get the battery from them.
The numbers on the battery are P401221 and BJ0901.

Any luck with evaluating bracelet with display? I’d like to check out the bidirectional capability. Thoughts?

I just bought one to use with my iPhone (provided Apple lets me >_>) and the name of the person, rather than the number, would be more useful to me. If only I knew a bit of Objective-C, then I’d have a crack at making this work with the iPhone and several apps on it..

what i need this to do is vibrate on my wrist when my tomtom navigator sees a red light or speed camera ahead (i ride a motorcycle so i cant hear it beep and its not really safe to have a screen mounted on the bars) anyone know if that would work if it were paired as a headphone?

write a custom program that sends other information in the caller id strings through the BT hands free profile and then you should be able to make it display arbitrary strings like tweets, stock quotes, etc, etc.

I am a 40 something business owner and know of so many business applications for a “silent” simple text device like this it isn’t funny. For those of you pooh poohing this with your childish banter, step aside because some people on this forum are onto something. The apps are mind boggling to me.

I just got one from a webshop and my opinion of the product is same as allmost any others; the number of the caller is pretty unusefull information because no-one types numbers for calling anymore and therefore no-one remembers them. So the name of the caller would be crucial.

Im not a programmer of anykind, but I got a few ideas to make a whole lot better product.
When you connect the bracelet to your mobile, it says the name of the device ie. Jives iPhone, so would it be possible to code a program for the iphone, wich works as a “gateway” for the bracelet and translates different information to the same language? Theres a freeware software for mac users to code IOs applications, but that you probably allready knew.

The bracelet have only two buttons, so acording to that, my idea of the design would go like this:
- different information sits on different pages and to change the page you push the button.
- first page is the time
- second page would be missed calls
- third for sms/email messages. Not the whole message, but only information if there´s any.
- fourth scrolls the rss feed
- fifth shows the current weather conditions
- etc.

- bracelet would automatically go to the first page, after a certain period of time.

Please notify me if theres anyone still working on this?