Nintendo's latest product, "alarmo"
Nintendo's latest product, "alarmo"
Buy Nintendo Sound Clock Alarmo™ and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.
I didn't realize it was April 1st already.
"Alarmo" sounds like an elf name from Disenchantment.
The first thing I thought was "Did I suddently wake up on April 1st??".
Is this an out of season alarm fools joke?
Nintendo switch online required
They finally stopped pretending they weren't about programmed obsolescence
i think that's just for the soft launch
For a limited time*, paid Nintendo Switch Online members in the United States and Canada can purchase Alarmo online via the My Nintendo Store before it is available to purchase by the general public.
When I saw this post I assumed it was a parody
Really? A $100 alarm clock with WiFi that requires a Nintendo account subscription? It's going to be sold out tomorrow.
The main gimmick is that it has tracking features builtin and will stop alarming when you go out of bed, without interaction. I tracks you in bed. To me this sounds alarming, because it collects data, so you can analyze your sleep, and has connection to the internet. Absolutely nogo.
I can just hit the button manually on my phone and its done. And I can already use any song I want.
Nintendo also recently did the Pokenon sleep app which was about tracking your sleep and a bunch of wearables have been shouting they intend to get better about it too....
I don't know if I want to know why suddenly data on People's sleep patterns is so profitable but yeah no way am I inviting data tracking and biometric harvesting into my bed with me.
I kinda wanna reverse/side engineer a replica you can DIY because fuck Nintendo.
Could probably use this as a base
https://www.printables.com/model/7266-star-trek-alarm-clock-adafruit-pyportal
Unfortunately your guide links to stuff on adafruit that's out of stock - mostly the screen/microprocessor...
I found this guide that has a walk through with full code and an easy to use library for making the interface quite a bit better:
https://www.makerguides.com/digital-clock-crowpanel-3-5-display/
I'm going to be building two initially for myself and my girlfriends kid but once I work out the details I'll post it up on the fediverse somewhere with the full code to get going.
I am much more keen to use C instead of Python for something like a clock although I'm sure circuit-python is fast enough, id rather stick to native libraries.
Do you guys not have phones?
Maybe it's just an out-of-season April fool's joke
I think it's meant to watch you get up instead of just stop it and then lay in bed for 3 minutes + get cash grabbed
i also do in fact have a slight curiosity of how much i move during sleep so i know why the heck i got a muscle strain on both of my legs waking up last week
Between this and Pokémon sleep I'm questioning why Nintendo needs to watch us sleep.
Two reasons:
- Sleep data can give some information on your health but isn't regulated as strictly as health data. Health data == Money
- Companies want your time and attention. TV manufacturers want you to use your TV as much as possible, social media companies want you to use their platform as much as possible, video game developers want you to play their games as much as possible. Nintendo successfully gained people's time when outside through Pokèmon Go already. Now they're trying to expand to your time sleeping. There's not much time left which isn't utilized by companies somewhat. Maybe there will be a Pokèmon School/Work soon?
Announcing a new partnership with Jira…
They’ve had this type of stuff in the works for at least a decade
They keep using the term "motion sensor," probably to avoid saying "this device that you will place next to your kid's bed has a camera and an internet connection."
(related community if that makes you nearly have an aneurysm: !privacy@lemmy.ml)
edit: OK, it probably doesn't actually have a camera, see comment below. I assumed it had to, since it mentioned detecting "hand gestures." However, that could mean that it just roughly detects you waving in front of it, which wouldn't require a camera. I still hate it.
The features described could be accomplished with a PIR motion sensor. I don't see any reason they'd go to the expense of adding a camera, especially since infrared is better for operating in the dark like you'd expect for an alarm clock that'll need to be able to wake kids at 6am in the winter.
This is a good point.
Okay, so there's two lines I could go down for this.
The first is to joke about the recent controversy, and say that they're only doing this so they can sue other alarm clock manufacturers for patent infringement.
The second is a wordplay by calling it "the s-watch". But that doesn't really translate well to text.
I've tried to correct the perspective in GIMP. There are probably better quality versions of the image, but I just wanted to have fun.
- INGESTION HAZARD: This product contains a button or cell or coin battery
- DEATH or serious injury can occur if
in???stedingested - A swallowed button cell or coin battery can cause Internal Chemical Burns
??in as little as 2 hours - KEEP new and used batteries OUT OF REACH of CHILDREN
- Seek immediate medical attention if a battery is suspected to be swallowed or inserted inside any part of the body
Wait a minute, inserted any part of the body?
Edit: Thanks to GlennicusM filling out the stuff I could not read.
- DEATH or serious injury can occur if ingested
- A swallowed button cell or coin battery can cause Internal Chemical Burns in as little as 2 hours
Filled in the blanks for you.
Thank you. :-) I'll correct edit.
Switch 2 taking on a crazy form
What... are they even doing with this
All my homies hate Nintendo.
I think this is actually kinda cool. But I wish they had custom "Nintendo sounds" made specifically for the clock rather than game noises.
I feel like this would be a sure-fire way to make me feel negative emotions when hearing various game sounds.
like others here it took me a while to realize this wasnt a joke product.
That said, it would be cute if wasnt wildly overpriced. Also Im not sure why they'd eliminate a huge portion of customers by requiring a switch/nintendo subscription.