Without context, that has got to be one of the most utterly bizarre headlines in history. Just imagine someone from 1980 trying to decipher what it means. :-)<p>About the only person who would believe it could be a genuine headline in 2014 would be Isaac Asimov - but his interpretation of what it meant would be... quite different.
There were definitely a lot of ways we could have done this! Thank you all for the feedback. We chose three gestures that made the most sense to us - shaking horizontally (x), vertically (y), and back and forth (z). It does look silly because we implemented a less sensitive gesture algorithm so that it doesn't unlock when your phone is in your pocket and you're walking around swinging your wrist.<p>The purpose of gestice (gesture + justice) is to add some security to those who don't typically add pin codes to their phones. It creates a new generation of two-step authentication for those who don't have a finger-print scanning smartphone! It's free for a limited time on our website so get em quick =)<p>Best,
Marco
Cool idea, but if I owned a Pebble and wanted to do this, I'd probably just create a Tasker profile to accomplish the same thing rather than install another app.
So is this the most useful thing that you can do with a smartwatch so far?<p>I am somewhat skeptical about the uses for smart watches, when pretty much everyone has a phone in their pocket. On top of that a smart watch will need charged regularly.<p>I am sure some people will have a legitimate use for them, but shaking it to unlock a phone doesn't seem especially useful to me.
Not the most secure thing, but a cool idea. Compared to the traditional password/pattern unlock, there's a big security flaw; all I have to do is shake the watch next to the phone to unlock it. I don't even have to be the rightful owner or know the password/pattern, I just have to shake at the same time.
Why can't they make the process a little more elegant than a shakeweight-esque motion? How sensitive is the accelerometer inside the pebble? I applaud them for their ingenuity though and I'd like to see them further develop the vision for motion based controls.
I couldn't imagine myself doing that somewhere with little room, like a crowded elevator or subway. The functionality is nice, but it looks utterly ridiculous.