HOT Watch™: Turn your hand into a phone with innovative private calling. Touch screen, Gestures, Apps. Phone stays in a pocket or bag.
Smart phones are essential these days, but are expensive and getting more bulky. Every time you take one out is a hassle, while presenting a risk for breakage, loss or theft. Holding the phone near your head during a call is also suspected to cause radiation-related health risks.
Meanwhile, the current crop of smart watches still requires your phone for basic functions like texting or making and receiving a call. Enter HOT Watch™ with Patent Pending Hands on Talk Technology that redefines what you can do with a watch, enabling you to send and receive messages while allowing you to make private calls without touching your phone.
HOT Watch™ comes bundled with Call Features (Private call, speakerphone, contact download and caller ID), Messaging Features (text, e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, Text Reply), Smart Phone Apps (weather, stocks, calendar, news, music control, phone finder), Watch Apps (Pedometer, note capture, fall detection, calculator), Time Features(alarm, timer, stopwatch, multi city time) and SDK for custom apps.
For all the above features to work, your smart phone just needs to be in close proximity of your HOT Watch™. The Typical Bluetooth connection range is 20-30 feet. You will still require your phone for more advanced functions like, GPS, internet browsing, camera or other smart features not listed above as supported by HOT Watch™.
HOT Watch™ is the first watch to support all the call features and limited Messaging features with any Bluetooth enabled phones. More advanced features are supported with iOS and Android devices.
All these features come attractively packaged in a slim (only 8mm), sleek design with bright E-Paper display and a timeless look for any occasion.
HOT Watch™ is the first to design an innovative, bio-mechanical solution enabling private calls, amplified by the palm of your hand.
HOT Gestures™ let you control many common functions with a wave or movement of the hand.
HOT Proximity Alerts let you know when your phone is being stolen or you are leaving it behind.
HOT Fall Detection uses the built-in accelerometer with gyroscope to detect a fall of a person and can text an emergency number of your choice.
Since filing an initial patent in 2010, we have poured countless hours of passionate work into a fully functional prototype with all the features tested and working. We need your help with tooling costs, final design, and mass production.
Private Call Experience
The above illustration depicts sound being generated by a directional speaker that resides at the bottom of the wrist. It is then projected to the palm, which reflects and amplifies it to the user’s ear for a private, crystal-clear phone call. The microphone is located on the same module, opposite of the speaker, for echo-free, clear sound. Essentially your hand/palm acts like a phone receiver.
This elegant, bio-mechanical solution empowers private calls like never before, imparting a similar experience to placing a phone to your ear. The beauty and potential of this patent pending idea, evolving how humans communicate, inspired us to make this watch a reality.
FEATURES
Private calls amplified by the palm of your hand
Speakerphone
Voice activated calling and other phone control using your phone’s native voice recognition such as iPhone SIRI
Receive and reply to Messages (SMS, Email, Facebook and Twitter)
Music player remote control (for your phone’s native player)
Multiple dial faces
Automatic fast contacts sync
Caller ID
Audible and silent vibrating alarms and alerts
Pedometer: Record running, walking, steps climbed, calories burned
Fall detection with automatic text to emergency number (unless cancelled in 30 seconds)
LED illumination
Note capture: captures your handwriting on the watch face
Tactile vibration feedback
HOT Proximity Alerts: Never leave your phone behind and prevent theft
Find your phone with remote beep
Built-in LED Flashlight (ONLY in Curve)
Water Resistant
Multi-touch projected capacitive screen (Skim finger above glass to change screens)
EASE OF USE
HOT GESTURES™
Handle functions of the watch with quick gestures(can be optionally turned off). Default gestures are:
Answer Call: Move hand to ear during incoming call
Dial Out Menu: Move hand to ear when there is no incoming call
Reject Call: Shake hand during incoming call
Mute Call: Drop hand during conversation
End Call: Wave goodbye during conversation
Dial Favorite Number: Knock twice
LED Backlight: Twist hand to “read” position
Fall Down: Automatically text emergency number (you can cancel within 30 seconds)
HOT GESTURES™ - TOUCH
Unlock and Menu: Write “ U ” on screen
Unlock and Dial: Write “ D ” on screen
Unlock and SMS: Write “ S ” on screen
Unlock and Clock: Write “C” on screen
Unlock and Apps: Write “A” on screen
SHORTCUTS
5 shortcuts to app screens with one easy touch. Fully customizable, but by default:
Press icon 1 for local weather, stock update, and a second city time.
Press icon 2 for next meeting or alarm, number of calories burned today and distance walked.
Press icon 3 for text messages and Facebook notifications.
Press icon 4 for a customized news feed.
Press Power button for dial face.
TECH SPECS
Energy Efficient Cortex M3 processor
Secondary DSP processor for Bluetooth, Call control and Audio Enhancements
SHARP 1.26” E-paper display for power saving and high-contrast display
Bluetooth 4.0 (Bluetooth Dual Mode) for energy conservation
6-Axis Accelerometer and Gyroscope
Multi-touch projected capacitive Screen with proximity detection of up to 1 cm
Vibration motor with tactile touch function
Bright Flash light with 2200mcd white LED (Curve Model only)
Anti-reflective glass with optical bonded display for high contrast sunlight readability
Smudge-proof touch glass
Water Resistant (ATMs: TBD)
SDK for custom 3rd party applications
Over the air firmware update
Simulator Based PC Development
HOT Watch comes with SDK and Windows simulator for custom app development. Using Windows simulator, developers can create applications on a PC environment (using Visual Studio or any windows compiler) and port it in an easy, one-step compilation. This unique tool can greatly enhance the power and speed of app development for the watch.
People without programming experience can develop custom watch faces and simple apps by downloading jpg/bmp images into provided tool. More powerful control is provided for programmers via SDK with ‘C’ language support. Control will be provided to access watch hardware (Display, Accel, Touch etc) and communication to smart phone.
Progression of HOT Smart Watch
The photos illustrated above are prototype watches. The production version of the watches will have a higher quality finish with the machine molded plastics, final material selection for metal (such as titanium for curve), gaskets for waterproofing and audio modules, better-shaped audio firing tube and production-quality straps, with buckle.
DIMENSIONS
HOT Watch Basic, Classic & Edge: 34mm x 42mm x 8mm
HOT Watch Curve: 38mm x 35mm x 9mm
What's next
The watches illustrated are fully working prototypes with the majority of hardware and software functionality completed. We are further enhancing our mechanical design details and material selections to deliver the best experience on your wrist. Most of the components used in the watch are from the market leaders in their respective fields. Key components such as Sharp E-paper display and the world’s most advanced Bluetooth chip have been planned and reserved to ensure timed delivery.
The experience gained with our current products (that are similar in the areas of electronics and plastic manufacturing) has helped us establish reputable manufacturing and assembly partners. Our key partner is also a leading component supplier and watch assembler for a renowned watch brand and has decades of experience in the watch industry. For the future, we are laying foundations with industry-leading ODMs to plan for high volume production when the time comes.
Our current Plan for shipments include:
August 2013: Finish final design details and package design
September 2013: Start tooling for plastic, rubber and metal parts
October 2013: Procure reserved components and molded parts, Pilot production.
November 2013: Finish certifications, volume production
December 2013: Start shipping
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