Monday, April 25, 2016

App and case for pebble watch that recreates a LEO view of Earth as time passes.

This is just a very complicated timepiece.
It is a mixed app that interacts with a case that mounts on the Pebble watch or something similar. The case clips on and has a clear slightly curved surface that is mounted to the face of the watch so it looks like a slight bubble. The app uses your phone's GPS to center an image of the Earth's surface on the watch, but scaled out to give a larger image that covers hundreds/thousands of miles across. This is centered on your location or to any point on Earth. The case has a tiny LED light that transmits a yellowish light on the surface of the bubble to tell you where the sun is during the day, this changes it's track above the horizon depending on the time of year. At night it switches to a whiter light that tracks the moon across your bubble. The bubble is to ensure a 3 dimensional depth of view. If you look horizontally at your watch you can see the sun/moon above the surface. The screen of the watch may also change it's appearance depending on day or night and show either a daytime sat image of the surface or a nighttime image that shows the lights of the cities from sat views. This isn't real time, though it maybe possible in the future with more sats. These images can be collected from google or whomever is your map software.
This app would only update your location through a forced send rather than automatically in order to save battery power. It would also go dark unless you hit a button to save on power. For the actual time, an LED in the case would project it on the North side of the bubble out of the way of the sun.
This idea was inspired by the Orbital Bracelet from the book, "Player of Games".

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