The Triposo travel belt is an implementation of an old idea of mine to give people a sense of direction by adding little buzzers to a belt that are connected to a device that knows about locations, in this case a smart phone. Every time you need to turn in a certain direction, the buzzer in that direction will go off and you can move around time without having to look at your phone.
The Triposo travel belt is an implementation of an old idea of mine to give people a sense of direction by adding little buzzers to a belt that are connected to a device that knows about locations, in this case a smart phone. Every time you need to turn in a certain direction, the buzzer in that direction will go off and you can move around time without having to look at your phone.
The project was a nice illustration of how even individuals can use the international supply chain of the world economy. Based on some pub-based brainstorming we put a request for quotes on Elance for a prototype. After a week we selected an Indian company who after a bit of back and forth about the components to use etc, build a first version with which we shot the video below.
The next planned step was to post the project on Kickstarter, but unfortunately at the time they didn't take non-US customers, so we ended up using Indigo. It generated a bunch of press, but fell short of our funding goal with only 60 people pre-ordering it, so we never went to production. Still it was a great experiment.