Indiegogo Star Trek Combadge - I want one!!

[wilfred]

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[Psi]

Without some hint of an actual electronic engineer involved in the project i'm afraid it's doomed to failure.

It reads as if the guy just had an idea and expects to pay other people to make it happen.
Hope i'm wrong though.

[dr.diesel]

The tech required to make one of these work is pretty much available, maybe not quite that small, but close.

I'd much rather see this guy succeed:

http://www.tricorderproject.org/

Custom silicon could easily combine several/many sensors to help cram in more "stuff". 

[Psi]

I'd much rather see this guy succeed:
http://www.tricorderproject.org/

I'm inclined to agree

[Psi]

On the show the badges seem to know who you want to talk to before you have said their name, because they transmit you saying "<your name> to Picard" as you say it to the correct person.

It's quite conceivable that the message is buffered on the combadge until the destination name is mentioned.
Then the message starts transmitting from the start with a realtime delay of a few seconds.
After all, on the show there's never someone making and receiving a call on screen at the same time.

[daveatol]

It's quite conceivable that the message is buffered on the combadge until the destination name is mentioned.

It's also quite conceivable that Star Trek is scripted and consequently doesn't suffer from this problem.

[Orpheus]

Real Companies were actually marketing radio badges VERY akin to Trek combadges to US hospitals five years ago. I haven't heard of any hospitals still using them today, much less as cellphones.

The fundamental problem with this system is, of course, that they display NO IDEA how cell phones work. The magic is not, and has never been, in the handset. It's in the infrastructure.

I know nothing about Aussie wireless telecom. Maybe it has a single nationwide standard for frequencies, encodings, etc. In the US, that varies widely by location and local carriers (though there's enough overlap that most phones mostly work most of the time in most areas where most people mostly are -- ALL those qualifiers, and likely more, are needed for it to be a true statement)

[flapjackboy]

There can't be any buffer because the other person always responds instantly.

Instantly from our perspective.

[SArepairman]

will kids be beat up one day because they have combadges?

[8086]

It reads as if the guy just had an idea and expects to pay other people to make it happen.
Hope i'm wrong though.

Seems to (possibly) be a woman, unless I'm off base when it comes to gendered names. Also note, "conceptual designer".



I can see a fairly huge issue with this, however. Even using her own maths, it makes no sense. Unless I'm missing something here, in which case I hope one of you will tell me before I make an idiot of myself.



So you expect a prototype to cost $100,000. Okay.



But your goal is only $100,000... Erm...



And if you are successful in reaching the goal, the majority of your funding will be from people expecting to receive a device. Where's the money coming from to produce these if it costs $100,000 to produce the prototype?

Eh?