Indiegogo Star Trek Combadge - I want one!! - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: wilfred
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 07, 2013, 11:30:09 am
content: /.

author: Psi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 07, 2013, 11:45:35 am
content: 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.

author: dr.diesel
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 07, 2013, 11:51:07 am
content: 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".

author: Psi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 07, 2013, 11:55:43 am
content: Quote from: dr.diesel on August 07, 2013, 11:51:07 amI'm inclined to agree

author: Psi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 12, 2013, 11:19:18 am
content: Quote from: mojo-chan on August 12, 2013, 11:03:45 amIt'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 makingandreceiving a call on screen at the same time.

author: daveatol
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: August 13, 2013, 02:30:36 am
content: Quote from: Psi on August 12, 2013, 11:19:18 amIt's also quite conceivable that Star Trek is scripted and consequently doesn't suffer from this problem.

author: Orpheus
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: August 16, 2013, 06:43:12 am
content: 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)

author: flapjackboy
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: August 16, 2013, 09:21:03 pm
content: Quote from: mojo-chan on August 14, 2013, 12:32:52 pmInstantly fromourperspective.

author: SArepairman
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 17, 2013, 04:39:53 am
content: will kids be beat up one day because they have combadges?

author: 8086
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 18, 2013, 03:33:35 pm
content: Quote from: Psi on August 07, 2013, 11:45:35 amSeems 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?