Shine: Elegant Activity Tracker With A Neat iPhone Syncing Trick

[replicatorblog]

http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/14/shine-misfit-wearables/

[tehwebguy]

Not sure how it's communicating with the phone.

Maybe it's the tech from that company that uses songbird-like sounds to communicate back and forth?

[sgdesign]

How does that syncing thing actually work? Light flashes? Vibrations?

[truebecomefalse → sgdesign]

Light or Vibration were both of my guesses as well. I personally think that wireless is better. The new Fibit syncs over bluetooth 4.0 and it uses very little power while doing so.

[namank]

Think it must use the magnetometer.

It's interesting that compatibility is iOS5+ and Android 4+

[andreyf]

How is this going to charge, I wonder?

[gallamine → andreyf]

They could potentially do wireless inductive charging through the same coil they (hypothetically) use to do magnetic communication. That, or the top/bottom half of the device are isolated and act as the -/+ terminals (probably wouldn't be good for the swimming application though).