Team Name
Team Catch Em All
Team Members
Alexandra Greenspan, Corey Short, Imran Yousuf, Kyle Dillon, Ruchita Rathi
Brainstorm
Bolded ideas are those we narrowed down to in our sketching and idea selection phases.
Social network based on friends' heart rates: Easily share your heart rate with your friends and get notified of a friend’s elevated heart rate.
Lie creator: Helps people come up with reasonably true lies for all occasions in the inconspicuous spot of their wrist.
Bullshit detector: For people who’ve seen their loved ones’ purchase history includes the Lie Creator, this bullshit detector works perfectly using voice activation to tell if any excuse is truly a lie.
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Food scanner for allergies: Scans bar codes of food products in grocery stores to tell contents and warns user if product contains any allergens they have specified.
Todo groceries: Lets users easily interact with their grocery lists from their watches. Syncs with the cloud so larger updates and list creation can be done via phone or webapp. Connects you with grocery store coupons.
Store geo coordinates to find your parked car: Watch uses accelerometer and GPS sensors to determine when you’ve parked your car, then guides you back when return to the parking lot.
Next/previous song gesture: Helps people change songs while maintaining handsfree by twisting right or left to change songs in playlist.
High five quality rater: Your watch knows high fives better than you do — let it teach you better high fives through ratings.
Multiplayer watch table hockey: Wave your arm in certain gestures to play a game of “table hockey” across multiple devices that all have the app.
Build a rainforest on your watch: Create a rainforest ambience based on your mood.
iMotivate: An app that generates pre-defined motivational messages to the user if their target heart rate is too low (keep on pushing harder! Etc.
Monitor how much you move when you are sleeping: Show your movement while sleeping throughout the night, compare your sleeping habits to others.
This time or day in history: Learn something new every day or at different times of the day about that exact moment in the past.
City quests: Uses GPS and maps capabilities to follow quests and scavenger hunts through your city.
Alcoholic drink counter: Helps people monitor their drinks by displaying the number of drinks consumed within a given time period, and the person’s estimated BAC.
Museum exhibit point and listen: Visual storytelling by pointing your watch at a museum artifact. The watch can then display more information on your smartphone.
Remote camera control from watch or cell phone camera: Use the watch as a viewfinder to zoom, frame and trigger the shot from a distance.
Gesture based triggering of pre-built text or music: Use a set of defined gestures mapped to specific action (ie: text mom pre-built message with a heart gesture).
Child locator with paired watches: You and your child each have a watch, so know where the little one is via synced watch locations and bluetooth.
Hide and seek detector: Play hide and seek and use the watch for infrared detection of where people are hiding.
Checking on your friends when you go out for drinks: Use the watch to keep track of your friends, both in terms of location and with a BAC gauge that notifies you if you need to intervene in their drinking.
Sending workout info to app: Record repetitions, exercises, days, minutes of exercise, graph improvements over time.
Supportive notifications: Get supportive messages from your friends only when you need them (ie: while running up a hill).
General notification response: Framework to respond to any notification that can use text or voice.
Stop feeling dumb: get smarter with the app that finds info about something you don't understand during a conversation.
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Bus Alerts: Notifies when the bus is coming based on your location or your favorite stops. (integrate CalTrain + BART + AC Transit)
Sleep notifier to friends and family: The watch alerts your family and friends when you are sleeping so that they don't disturb you.
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Next Song Selector: An application to motivate people that like to stay active that chooses the next song on a person’s playlist based on the next song’s beats per minute (BPMs) in relationship to the user’s current heart rate provider by the watch.
Activity sensing based on sensors: Determines if walking or running or sitting and tracks it.
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Drop: Location based notes to strangers - Uses GPS to spontaneously send notes to others with the watch in a certain location — tell stories about the location, tell secrets, tell jokes, tell whatever you want. (This is also our chosen idea, as you will read about below.)
Better activity monitoring: A “Fitbit” type interface is worn on the ankle and the accelerometer in it is used with the watch to provide more accurate activity monitoring.
Emergency Alarm: For the faint of wake. Your smartwatch knows if you forgot to set an active alarm on your smartphone and your watch automatically sets an alarm one hour before your first calendar appointment.
Seeing tweets based on location: GPS-based tweet filter that gives you up-to-the-minute conversations and statuses people are having/posting in your location.
Animal whisperer: Let you pet cat or dog speak into your watch and learn what they’re thinking based on machine learning and pattern recognition.
Virtual marathon: App alerts people in your network and invites them for a virtual marathon.
Story characters come alive on your smartwatch: Accepts voice inputs and projects a hologram of your favorite fairytale character.
In charger: Picture frame screen saver when your watch is charging.
Watch to computer voice searching: Use microphone on watch to do voice searched on watch.
GIF finder: Find a gif based on the live feed on your Facebook network. For example, if you are in the middle of a conversation on Facebook and want to find a gif for a particular category, say sarcasm, you provide a voice input to the watch and the watch will fetch result-set on your phone.
Activate ICE network: Activates the ICE network for senior citizens facing health issues or having a strange gait.
Stop impulse shopping: Alerts you when you try to shop impulsively on your phone by providing a price comparison across different shopping sites.
Humans vs. zombies: huge humans vs. zombies game for everyone who wants to play, via watches and sensors.
Motivation social network: Get motivations from friends right when you need them.
Choreography-based synchronization: App that helps you keep in sync when dancing, swimming, etc.
Find’m: Finds the social network upon meeting e.g: Facebook, LinkedIn etc (Stalking).
Fingerprint Scanner: The watch can be used for two-step verification, one by using the mac address or pin code and the other being out personal fingerprint ID.
Mood tester: Think happy thoughts, senses your heartbeats and makes you smile.
Business card exchange upon handshake: Watch knows when two people shake hands and it automatically exchange their business card information.
Call taxi from your watch: One touch taxi calls from your watch.
Travel Guide: Tells you stories about the place places when walking with the watch, gives rating on food from yelp and significance.
Car Unlock Authentication: Use the watch to unlock and lock your car along with opening your trunk and gas filler neck.
Voice recognition with people: pulls up the data with the person you are speaking to, helps you discretely remember their name / fun facts.
Hot or Not: Swipe right if you think if you find the person attractive and left if you are not attracted. It does not match you with people like Tinder but gives each picture a rating.
Connecting at Conferences: Connect with people at career fairs, conferences by pointing your watch to the business card or scribble pad, the watch captures relevant information and sends it to your phone as a business card or adds it to your calendar (for followups).
Brunchbox: Point your watch to a local place and find local brunch places within a given radius.
GrammarNazi: Speak to your watch, the app checks your grammar and sends a yay or a nay message on your phone.
Foodscanner for fitness: Scans the food items on the grocery aisle and displays information about the nutrition content on your phone.
Watch game: A game where smartwatch users can swipe across the screen to shoot each other. They can swirl and shoot, charge and shoot, and gesture up.
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Exercise rep counter: Targets users who frequent the gym. The app uses the accelerometer to know what a bicep curl is, or a bench press and keeps track of the rep count and logs the data in an application on the phone.
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Random Stretching: Get random exercising tips over the course of a day, do them or use a snooze alarm; machine learning to figure out your schedule and work around it in providing stretches.
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Info Pointer: Get Yelp information of businesses you point at based on current location.
Context aware witty pieces of information: Gives you interesting pieces of information based on all possibly collectable context information.
Idea Selection
Drop: Search comes to you. It’s an application to leave notes to random people — maybe you have a favorite latte at a cafe that someone should try, or maybe you know an interesting fact about that local bookstore. Simply drop a note for someone to pick up via their smartwatch. We like Drop because it’s a different way of thinking about smartwatch apps, and targets a very interesting market. What draws people into constantly connecting with their social networks? Notifications. What helps travelers in a new city? Recommendations. Drop has both of these and more. It’s location-based Twitter amongst strangers. We’re excited by the possibilities the app has to offer in terms of connecting people, albeit fleetingly, and using interesting technology.
Project Description
Target User Group
Drop’s target user is the quintessential urban traveler who is always on the lookout for new places and on the quest to learn about trivia and find recommendations about spaces in the city. An urban traveller is always on the move and barely gets time to whip out her smartphone, open an app, and search for these interesting places, trivia, or recommendations within the vicinity. We are targeting any urban traveler who wants to explore urban spaces. In that sense, we envision Drop as the next generation real-time transitional memex that enables new touchpoints for urban spaces.
Problem Description & Context
The urban traveler is constantly bombarded with advertisements, restaurants, gift shops, and tourist attractions, all desperate for their time, money and attention. Unfortunately, the traveler doesn’t have a native stranger to separate the good from bad, and will often make the wrong choice. Even more likely, the traveler will get frustrated with the plethora of choices and lack of information. Some will time-consumingly consult the vast internet of answers in attempts to filter the best options, but others with choose Drop. Instead of painstakingly hunting down valuable information, let it come to you, when you need it, where you need it, with Drop. The app is a disruptive force and has the potential to redefine the way we search for information because it stands at the very intersection of people and information consumption patterns. Currently, existing solutions are centered around recommendation technologies within a particular platform (like Amazon) or are restricted to a particular product (like Yelp). In each case, the user has to seed the search to (a) either get recommendations or (b) find legit information. But Drop changes this one-size-fits-all approach to information retrieval. It addresses a latent market need — the need to sip a martini without facing the cognitive overload of making choices from the humungous search results. Drop brings information to the user without overwhelming the user. She can find a treasure without even looking for it!
Why is a mobile app a good solution for the problem?
For a traveler on the go, it is important to have information at one's fingertips, whether that is a recommendation for a restaurant or a great tip to see a particular place at a specific time. It is crucial that this information is available when the user explores that place. A desktop or a web application is not a good solution in such a situation because a user cannot get real-time updates on the go while using a web application. The motivation behind Drop is realtime information discovery, and only a mobile application can liberate the user from the maze of Babel’s Library.
Why is a smartwatch a good solution for the problem?
Drop’s slogan says it all. “Search comes to you.” We see the scenario created by Drop — the need to constantly check one's surroundings for Drops — as finding a unique solution in the form of smartwatches. We don’t want people constantly holding their phones out, checking them to search for potential drops in the vicinity. With a smartwatch, a person can receive a notification right on their wrist and open it a second later with just a swipe — no fumbling, no constant checking, no eyes on their phone screens while walking. People can go about their daily lives and take comfort in the fact that Drop on their smartwatch does the searching for them.
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