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Mario Fraiß-Kollmanitsch

ZEI° - Revolutionary time tracking device

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Time is all we got, we should balance it correctly! ZEI° is a tiny time tracking device that will ease your life and get out your most productive side in no time! All you need to do is to choose your 8 activities, set the app and start flipping the ZEI° to its sides. Based on what you are doing, it will count your time per activity!

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Chris Buttenham
This looks amazing guys.. really 'outside the box' :)
Manuel Bruschi
Maker
@chrisbuttenham thanks Chris! ;)
James O'Sullivan
Great product! What pushed you guys to do the pen as well? Seems like you could do the same product without the pen and just have each side have a corresponding number. Then have the it be dry erase and let the user manually put in the name. (this would probably bring down the price significantly) Also, Zei can read the writing on each side and convert handwriting to characters? That's impressive.
Manuel Bruschi
Maker
@james_osullivan hey James, we didn't made the erasable pen itself, it's just a rebranded pen that works best with ZEIº. I'm very sorry, but I don't get what you mean with "then have the it be dry erase and let the user manually put in the name". We have not added any handwriting recognition yet, but it's on our idea-list. At the moment people can write with the pen and dry erase it with the top of the pen, still we're trying to find a better material which works with whiteboard markers, doesn't makes your hands dirty and still feels good.
Toon Nelissen
Hi Zei°, Three years ago we invented the almost the same product, we couldn't find the time nor the investments needed for this idea. I'm very happy to see this product is finally going to be produced, also a bit sad that we did not made this product. Our market-research showed that their would definitely be a market for it. Our TimeKube (Yes, we used a cube) had also some color led's in it to the tell the user if it was tracking or not. Because we alway forget our timetracking tools, right? We also added some motion gestures to get our timetracking app to the foreground of our screen. I'll hope their will be a public api available to implement this into different applications. We use @jira , it would be cool feature if would warn if you go over the budget time. Good idea to not release now, but later in the year. Use the time to make it a better product, but keep it simple. Concerns/Questions: * Will it get dirty over time? * Will my hands get dirty? * Will you provide a public api? * Can I take it with me in my bag, will it start to track? * If I take it in my bag how will the surface of the Zei° be after a while? * How easy will it charge? With a cable or on a wireless charging pad? * Can I use my own pens? Or could I buy more colors? Just mail me at toon at appsaloon.be if you like to talk about it more, happy to share our knowledge.
Manuel Bruschi
Maker
@toonnelissen hey, sorry for the very late reply. Somehow I didn't got notifications about the new comments here. I'm glad you liked it and thank you for your support. Funnily we started as well with a cube but throughout the user interviews it evolved to a octagon. We have added some motion gestures as well, but right now they are not good enough to be claimed. Regarding you questions: * Will it get dirty over time? Will my hands get dirty? If you use stickers or our recommended pens, then no. Otherwise it depends from you. * Will you provide a public api? Not from the very first day but yes. * Can I take it with me in my bag, will it start to track? Yes. We will work on something like a "Shock-Protection", still not shure if this is going to be there from the first day. * If I take it in my bag how will the surface of the Zei° be after a while? Didn't tested yet. The material is very robust and easy to clean however it depends what else is in your bag. * How easy will it charge? With a cable or on a wireless charging pad? It has a coin battery on the inside which lasts for at least 1y and you can easily replace it. * Can I use my own pens? Or could I buy more colors? We're testing a lot of different pen and material combinations in order to give you as much freedom as possible but still keeping your hands clean. Not an easy challenge but we're on a good way.
Leo Zakour
When can I buy it?
Manuel Bruschi
Maker
@leozakour thanks for the interest and sorry for the late reply. The pre-orders start on the beginning of September.
Stefan Ponsold
Great product- just supported :-)
Just Sturgis
Had to come back and edit my question. The @timeular is on point. Very responsive and obviously invested and intelligent in their approach with ZEI°. I am looking forward to this!
Mark

Playing with my Makerkit is a lot of fun, but took a while to get it right. I really like having the physical object to turnover, but the apps also work great on the phone. Main downside is that when my laptop is shutdown / hibernates, the zei does not always reconnect. Means I just use the app instead.

Pros:

Great Apps, very nice to have a physical device to turnover

Cons:

Disconnecting issues with laptop hibernation

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