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The PineTime watch has this vibrate-on-the-hour feature:

https://www.pine64.org/pinetime/



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Have a look at PineTime, the open-source smart watch.

Your comment made me think about a nice app for your phone. Remember those watches that tickle your skin every x minutes? A mobile app could vibrate every x minutes so that you can tell the time without looking at it.

Edit: ofcourse such an app already exists: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=at.idsoftware.... ;)


Check out PineTime instead, the open-source watch.

if you can build a small watch circle like thing that vibrates every 30 mins if you haven't moved it'd be great

How does PineTime Smart Watch sync the time with your mobile phone? Lemme explain how Bluetooth LE Time Sync works with Mynewt and NimBLE... And how we create PineTime Watch Faces with LVGL

https://lupyuen.github.io/pinetime-rust-mynewt/articles/time...


PineTime is the only watch that is cheap and can be programmable. However, it's software isn't mature enough for daily use.

https://pine64.com/product/pinetime-dev-kit/?v=0446c16e2e66


Apple Watch actually has a setting[0] to buzz the time in Morse when you put two fingers on the watch face. This is really useful for discretely checking the time.

[0] https://support.apple.com/guide/watch/tell-time-with-haptic-...


The PineTime is still an electronic gadget that you won't use for very long.

My watch takes 15 seconds to rewind each day, and 5 seconds to be time adjusted by one minute twice a week. Service is every 5 years, the last one cost me 88 €. It gets more valuable each year, and I plan to bequeath it to my son in a (hopefully) very distant future.

To each his own, I guess.


Thanks, I looked at PineTime and a few other programmable watches. She decided that she didn’t need an interface and wouldn’t use any function outside of the time. So I went with a Lilygo t-wristband (https://www.lilygo.cc/products/t-wristband).

See also the Durr wristband, which vibrated every 5 minutes:

https://www.wired.com/2014/01/a-vibrating-watch-that-messes-...

Discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7007731


I suffer from extreme time blindness and one apparent solution to this is to have a regular metronome like pulse - I would love an app for say a smart watch or something that did this with vibrations!

The time notification reminds me of a screenless "watch" 10 years ago. It would buzz every 5 minutes as a supposed aid in perceiving the passage of time for various tasks.

https://www.theverge.com/2014/1/30/5361210/skrekkogle-durr-t...


Yeah, if you want something like that, you'd get a quartz radio watch that synchronizes with the free radio-based timekeeping service.

I have a couple of Poljot Signal watches, which contain a built in (analog) alarm, complete with a second crown to wind the mechanism.

They're surprisingly useful, especially when camping or going to places where you don't want to take a phone with you.


If you're navigating with a watch on, it'll notify you of upcoming turns (either through vibrations or by making a turn signal-like noise) without ducking/pausing your music.

I just took a look at the feed (http://thetenthwatch.com/feed) and was amused that the time reference was a little Casio clock running a few minutes fast.

Yup. Like on a casio. If I remember correctly the modes were normal time, stop watch, timer and .beats

Interesting, thanks for sharing. Somewhat related, I've always found the "wandering hours" watch complication to be incredibly interesting: https://watchismo.blogspot.com/2007/07/watchismo-times_20.ht...

The timer on my watch for Pomodoro. The tactile alarm is less jarring than audio.

Also Vim.

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