Hi world!
Okie, that STILL sounds better than "It was a cold and rainy night..."
Agreed? Good.
This is our inaugural STATUUS post, one of many more to come. I'm the founder, and along with a growing list of industry professionals, supporters, organizers, and fellow coders, are readying a platform and product crowd-funding launch simultaneously. Sounds like fun, huh? Trust me, the journey's been real or should I say really mindboggling- with over three years of steady product R&D. After much gnashing of teeth and tons of feedback and market research, we have recently made the requisite patent filings and are moving forward with our first product(s), the Hashtagger Watch and Hashtagger Mini in conjunction with our underlying open-source platform.
What the heck are those things? What do they do? And where's the public bathroom?
Ok, I'll answer the first two questions with our initial press release below. The third question being of an existential nature many orders of magnitude higher may be answered thusly, "Dunno. Try next door."
So, without further adieu, read'em and weep (for joy of course). The STATUUS Hashtagger has arrived!
-M. Anthony Harper
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Saturday, June 14, 2014 6:30:38 PM
Saturday, June 14, 2014 6:30:38 PM
The Hashtagger Makes Smartphone Use Smarter
AUSTIN, TX - Today's smartphone user checks his or her cell phone once every six minutes on average according to a recent study commissioned by Nokia.
As a result, smartphone users seem to suffer a loss of time, productivity, and focus. Similar studies point out that relaxation and sleep may also be negatively affected by constantly checking texts, missed calls, emails, posts, tweets, or any other social media barrage. A survey conducted by Pews indicates at least 26% of drivers routinely check their smartphone- exponentially increasing the risk of accident and injury.
Consensus: People aren't being very smart about using their smartphones.
STATUUS.com founder M. Anthony Harper believes that bad habits of smartphone users will persist until there are viable alternatives. Under development is the company's flagship smartphone companion, the Hashtagger Watch. This smartwatch provides audible, visual, and vibration alerts while your phone stays in your pocket, purse, even inside your home or car up to a distance of 100 feet.
The watch also allows the wearer to rate a person, place, or thing within seconds using a patent-pending color-schemed interface on its bezel. Says Harper about the Hashtagger Watch, "It's like Yelp-on-a-wrist, but infinitely more honest because it offers fingerprint validation and is used in the moment."
The Hashtagger Mini, a compact version of the Hashtagger Watch, is a smart ring that displays color-coded alerts and push notification-source icons, vibrates, and/or beeps. Filters display the source of the push notification, such as an incoming call, calendar reminder or alarm, tweet, email, or text message- just like its larger cousin, the Hashtagger Watch.
Another feature users of either wearable may appreciate is the registration of personal hashtags via the STATUUS.com app, hence the catchy brand name. Registering hashtag keywords allows the urgency of an alert to be displayed with a specific color on the device's bezel, heard with a specific beeping pattern or felt with a unique vibration pattern. The STATUUS app will even parse user-defined, private hashtag keywords from most messaging apps and display the appropriate color alert on the wearable. No need to guess whether your incoming text message is urgent, routine, or from whom it was sent.
Both wearables are unisex in design to appeal to a broader market, use Bluetooth LE (Low Energy), syncs to your smartphone, and connects to the respective Android or iOS app to function. Audible signals alert the wearer when they move too far away from their companion device and tracking functionality helps prevent the smartphone or wearable from being lost, stolen, or left behind.
The company plans to begin taking pre-orders in July in conjunction with its initial crowdfunding effort on Indiegogo.com with the Mini priced at $125 for early adopters.
STATUUS.com, is a FAAS (feedback-as-a-service) startup based in Austin, Texas and a developer of front and back facing consumer, retail, and organizational alert systems, ratings and reviews, and payment solutions based on proprietary patent-pending technologies such as Spectrum I/O, BluePrint, and SmartAlert.
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