Hey Kids.
As you know I recently contributed $250
to a startup's crowd-funding campaign
to develop an exciting new gadget called The Cicret Bracelet
which will make it possible to project
a video display from a device on your arm
on to your arm.
The timeline on their website said that
the bracelet would start shipping
to folks who contributed $250
by the end of 2016.
So, naturally, many, many, many of you
have been asking whether I received mine.
Well, the short answer is:
not yet.
But that's okay,
You see, right after I sent my pledge
the timeline on the website was adjusted
to say that shipping is expected to start by early 2017
and now the timeline's been removed completely because
look, developing a revolutionary new product
is hard and we all need to be patient at
least the Cicret team are keeping us
informed
I haven't received any email
communication but shortly after my video
about the Cicret bracelet came out the
company started posting weekly blog
updates about their progress in the 16
weeks since then they've made seven of
them but I've learned a lot the
developing prototype is looking better
and better and not at all like a regular
pico-projector stuck in a wristband
they seem to have switched from laser
projection back to LED I want to ask
them if that means the focus, keystone
correction, brightness, and on camera
flickr issues don't need to be worked
out but I can't because comments on all
the updates and the newest prototype
video are disabled
according to another weekly update
Cicret won a prize as one of the most
innovative startups from credit union or
something
I was excited and looked for more details
but there doesn't seem to be any
information about Cicret or the
competition on that corporations website
or the rest of the internet I guess I
can always find out more infos at
contact@cn2p.eu. Oh.
One touching weekly update was
from the Bosch Connected World
Conference where Cicret's founder Guillaume Pommier
a shared a story of an email from a
mother of an autistic child. (Guilluame speaking): on whether
autist correct english but it's difficult
autistic yes (CD): she can only communicate
with her son to an iPad but she can't
use it when he's in the shower and hopes
the Cicret bracelet to be a solution I
think that would be a great use for a
device like this and I'm glad the Cicret
team is confident their bracelet will
work as well in water as a dozen
sunlight and on dark skin but until
it actually exists in the hands of
consumers I would urge that mother to
seek out one of many available
waterproof iPad cases priced
substantially lower than the Cicret
bracelet is projected to cost
don't get me wrong I still believe in
this product and in the smartness of my
250 dollar investment but I just wanted
to know what it feels like so I caved
and got a knockoff bracelet on the dark web
It's called the Mistaque and uses a
2 petawatt integrated all gas-phase iodine
laser so no inverse-square problems for us
now let's see what this baby can do
I guess the world's not ready for the
Mistaque
Oh! I almost forgot about the most
important update from the Cicret team
they stop soliciting money from ordinary
people i don't know if 128.2 percent
of $500,000 was the magic number or if a
bit of fresh attention to the campaign
made them rethink their crowd funding
strategy but from now on
clicking the still present donate link
on their website won't cause thousands
of people to accidentally invest in a
product whose viability seems as much of
a stretch as its delivery date and
that's got to be worth 250 bucks
remember love with your heart
use your head for everything else