FFS - do we REALLY need such an app? Pathetic ....

[Mark1978]

That's what we need, an app to turn the kettle on 5 minutes from home.

There is one for android, it's called "Tasker" and can send commands to home automation systems dependant on the state of your phone (ie, your gps position)

 

[ufkacbln]

THe Icedot from Amazon... only £130

ICEdot is an emergency ID and notification service innovating safety technology for athletes and outdoor enthusiasts. ICEdot syncs a secure online profile with products such as a band, helmet stickers or it's latest product, the Crash Sensor. In Case Of Emergency, ICEdot has the ability share predesignated health and geolocation information over sms/text.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

With my level of fitness at the moment I'd just end up with my girlfriend following me in her car.
It'd be a 'Nigels out of breath again' indicator

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

OK, so opinion is divided on the usefulness of that app. However, lurking further down the page was a link to this app.

http://road.cc/content/news/114646-not-sure-what-wear-cycle-rain-there’s-app

Surely not.

Worryingly they want £1.99 for the app to tell you what to wear whilst cycling!

 

[rb58]

You know that #30daysofbiking thing....... We need#30daysoflivingwithoutmysmartphone

 

[HovR]

Even ignoring the image of "cycling is dangerous" the app purveys, it's still a bit crap. If they'd included readings from the accelerometer it wouldn't go off every time you stopped for a puncture/cafe stop etc. Sounds like it would be more of a nuisance to be honest.

 

[Crackle]

It'd go off when I threw my bike in the ditch at the top of the Devils Staircase. Or more likely at the bottom of it.

 

[Over The Hill]

http://www.northyorkshire.police.uk/14196

I beg to differ, said app would have found the cyclist who was missing from 1900-1030 whilst his family worried about his health.

Cycling is dangerous either made worse by traffic or rider error.

I think you are going up the wrong path here.

Firstly, cycling (as with walking or driving a car) carries some degree of risk. That does not mean that it is dangerous.

Secondly (and I do not feel overly comfortable using an actual fatal incident as an example but it is responding to your inclusion of it) the stupid app would only have helped to find the poor victim, not do anything about the incident itself.

We should and have to accept there is a degree of risk and do things to lower any risk (like not wear all black as reported in the above incident). But that is a long way from declaring an activity to be dangerous.

I for one really cannot stand this nanny state attitude. I usually leave my phone at home when out and about on my bike. I go out to get away from the world.

 

[w00hoo_kent]

I usually leave my phone at home when out and about on my bike. I go out to get away from the world.

I take it (all my bangin' tunes are on it for a start) but I don't use it as a phone unless I need to.

 

[Leodis]

I am less paranoid regarding digital technology. I cycle miles away from anywhere on country lanes not some suburb on flat well lit roads, if I crash I would rather someone could track me than be laying in a ditch for hours.

Each to their own I guess.

 

[crdf]

User I didnt mean to sound disrespective. I'm disgusted by the way the police handled he situation.
I'm paraphrasing what the journalist said. To me it sounded like They were trying to make his life/death sound incignificant. To be honest I feel quite angry with the whole situation. I feel the driver should hae been held responsible at least for running away. Isn't that illegal?

 

[ufkacbln]

http://www.northyorkshire.police.uk/14196

I beg to differ, said app would have found the cyclist who was missing from 1900-1030 whilst his family worried about his health.

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If the phone had not run down its battery
If the phone was undamaged
If there was a signal


My trusty ID band woul have been equally effective and sufers none ofthe se problems

 

[ufkacbln]

Its all very well unless you stop in a noisy pub for a quicky, only to see you missus stood staring at you 30 minutes later as you down the rest of your pint.

My wife texts me!

 

[CopperBrompton]

That's what we need, an app to turn the kettle on 5 minutes from home.

I have one :-) Detects when you're arriving home, and asks if it should switch itself on:
http://9to5mac.com/2014/08/06/revie...rolled-kettle-for-gadget-loving-tea-drinkers/

And, more importantly, lets me switch on the kettle in the kitchen downstairs from my office upstairs :-)