The dumbphone revival and the broader push to reclaim our attention have zeroed in on one habit in particular: reaching for a phone the moment we wake, and again as the last thing before sleep. A growing crop of devices now promises to break that loop, from feature phones built purely for calls and texts to social-media-blocking flip phones like Commodore’s retro Callback 8020. Copenhagen-based Habity Design is tackling the same problem from a different direction, replacing the phone on your nightstand rather than the one in your pocket.
Love this thing, but not for $200.
Thus is the fate of unsubsidized hardware meant to be sold to customers as the product instead of being sold to make you the product.
It’s true I guess. I don’t understand the input costs here. But an offline LCD clock is literally a dollar store commodity. The design is gorgeous though.
At small volumes the e-ink display costs more than the average alarm clock BOM. And that’s not including the other features. This was made by a “design” firm. They’re targeting those who want to pay a premium.
150$. What a fucking gimmick. Just so you can have a smiley face next to the time
everything these days is a cheap trash gimmick. it’s all garbage
Like this part:
… all running fully offline with no app, account, or subscription.
Not this part:
The Habity clock is priced at 995 Danish kroner, or roughly US$150
But, this is coming from a guy who spent $500 on an Apple watch, which has ended up sitting next to my bed as a clock that displays the time when I bump the shelf. It’s cool that it doesn’t glow at me all night long, but not $500 cool.
Or buy a second-hand Echo Show 5 for peanuts, wipe Amazon’s OS, install Lineage, and make it look pretty with a 3D-printed enclosure.
https://www.printables.com/model/1769972-amazon-echo-show-enclosure
Bold of you to put one of those next to the place where you do the dirty. Even with the OS wiped, lol
The camera literally cannot function with lienageOS because there are no drivers. Even with the shade open it is impossible to get an image from it.
I take great pleasure in acquiring big tech garbage and freeing it from those big tech shackles.
De-amazoned Echo? Sure
Ungoogled Chromebook running Linux? Don’t mind if I do.
Jailbroken Kindle? Thank you very much
Taking enshittified hardware and liberating it is rather satisfying.
I just want an alarm that 1. Starts ringing before the time (ex. 45 mins before, 30, 15, 10, 5, 3, 1, 0) 2. Infinitely snoozable. Haven’t found anything that does both
