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Photo Op

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

We apologize again for the extended silence. We’ve heard your complaints and as a first step towards better customer relations we’d like to show you a few things we’ve been working on, in photo form (for now).

First up, we’ve snapped a picture of our app running on our three main platforms–iPhone, Android, and Blackberry:

We’ll be showing videos of apps interacting with the phone in later posts; the iPhone in particular has some uniquely useful functionality. Next is a photo of our modest unit:

It may be small, but a lot of work went into building and programming it to work across multiple platforms. We’ll be writing about this subject in later posts, though. This is our locally-produced model and the next run will have a smaller form factor. Finally, an early screen shot of our analytics application (the overview page, to be specific):

We’ve still got a ways to go on this and lots of cool features planned. We’re iterating quickly and building things from optimal sleep planning to segmentation analysis. The version we have now functions well, but we plan to have much cooler stuff available when your get your WakeMate in July.

That’s all for today–hope you liked what you saw! Upcoming posts include:

  • Working demonstration video using the Blackberry app
  • Showcase of the new and improved wrist band
  • iPhone, Android, etc. demo videos
  • A look at Apple hardware authentication

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First Units Shipping + New Store!

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

WakeMates are shipping!

Thank you so much for your continued patience.  We wanted you to know we are currently shipping WakeMates to our very first customers. As previously mentioned, because of high demand we will not be able to fill all orders at once. Rest assured, though: all orders will be fullfilled in the coming months!

Due to the huge demand and issues with large scale manufacturing (mostly sourcing large numbers of parts), we will be fulfilling orders in batches as quickly as we can. As far as we know, this is not a conspiracy organized by the caffeinated beverage industry to keep these units out of your hands!

Here’s an overview of all current (rather conservative) ship dates:

  • Orders placed after November 15th and before January 22nd will ship by July 30th.
  • Orders placed after January 22nd and before March 31st will ship by August 30th.
  • All orders place after March 31st and into the future (until noted otherwise) will ship by September 30th.

These are conservative estimates; we want to provide firm dates rather than overly hopeful guesses going forward. We are confident we can deliver many orders sooner and will continue working day and night to ship all pending orders as soon as possible.

We can’t thank everyone enough for your continued support (but we’ll try — thank you!). We’re very excited to finally ship these WakeMates and help you all get a great night’s sleep.

New Store!

We’ve just launched our new online store, which also gives a sneak peak at our new brand design. The current site is, admittedly, a bit dated so we came up with a whole new look and decided to apply it to our store first. If you’ve already ordered a WakeMate, don’t worry: you needn’t do so again (though we certainly wouldn’t complain!)