Gadgets : Ditto Bluetooth Notifier
Gadgets : Ditto Bluetooth Notifier
After publicity and a Kickstarter late last year, excitement grew around Ditto, a tiny device that promised to notify you only when it was important. Once meant to be shipped in January or February of this year, the buzzer is finally ready to ship next week, and it’s going to put you in control of notifications.
Notifications have gotten out of hand, with incoming texts, calls, social media activity, people following you on Twitter, app updates, and whatever LinkedIn is bugging you about. It’s gotten to the point where paring down those notifications app by app has become a near-insurmountable obstacle on its own, or at the very least a chore.
Ditto allows you to program which notifications are worthy of your immediate attention. Using a Bluetooth connection and an app — there’s no kind of interface on the device itself — you can specify notifications, down to calls or messages from individual contacts, and assign them to different vibration patterns. Any other notification will go to your phone, which ideally will be out of sight and unable to distract you.
So, it’s a programmable buzzer. Not the most exciting thing in the world, and certainly not the first time we’ve seen the idea in action — the Tyia band does the same sort of thing with vibration and light patterns, and looks a lot more chic doing it. That said, there’s nothing out there as simple and cheap as Ditto.
What extra features there are have been added thoughtfully. There’s a clip if you want to attach the Ditto to clothing, or you can grab a band and wear the device on your wrist — underwater, if you like, thanks to a waterproof exterior. And, being a Bluetooth device, Ditto can alert you if you’re forgetting your phone, buzzing when you get out of Bluetooth range and the connection between Ditto and your phone is broken.
Ditto is available now for $40 in black, white, or clear.
Purchase here.
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Sources : Ditto Photo | Ditto Article
After publicity and a Kickstarter late last year, excitement grew around Ditto, a tiny device that promised to notify you only when it was important. Once meant to be shipped in January or February of this year, the buzzer is finally ready to ship next week, and it’s going to put you in control of notifications.
Notifications have gotten out of hand, with incoming texts, calls, social media activity, people following you on Twitter, app updates, and whatever LinkedIn is bugging you about. It’s gotten to the point where paring down those notifications app by app has become a near-insurmountable obstacle on its own, or at the very least a chore.
Ditto allows you to program which notifications are worthy of your immediate attention. Using a Bluetooth connection and an app — there’s no kind of interface on the device itself — you can specify notifications, down to calls or messages from individual contacts, and assign them to different vibration patterns. Any other notification will go to your phone, which ideally will be out of sight and unable to distract you.
So, it’s a programmable buzzer. Not the most exciting thing in the world, and certainly not the first time we’ve seen the idea in action — the Tyia band does the same sort of thing with vibration and light patterns, and looks a lot more chic doing it. That said, there’s nothing out there as simple and cheap as Ditto.
What extra features there are have been added thoughtfully. There’s a clip if you want to attach the Ditto to clothing, or you can grab a band and wear the device on your wrist — underwater, if you like, thanks to a waterproof exterior. And, being a Bluetooth device, Ditto can alert you if you’re forgetting your phone, buzzing when you get out of Bluetooth range and the connection between Ditto and your phone is broken.
Ditto is available now for $40 in black, white, or clear.
Purchase here.
Contact Simple Matters
Website | Facebook | Twitter
Contact ChipChick
Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Google+ | YouTube
Sources : Ditto Photo | Ditto Article
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