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title: "Thermodo - tiny thermometer for your phone" |
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date: Dec 24, 2014 |
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display_name: 'sipp11' |
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categories: Kickstarter review |
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url: http://kck.st/16aENGL |
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widget: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/robocat/thermodo-the-tiny-thermometer-for-mobile-devices/widget/card.html?v=2 |
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tags: failed |
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Thermodo was a cool looking gadget. It would shine over most of gadgets you have on your desk. Anodized aluminum casing with a good looking brand and name, who could deny that? Basically, what it did was reading room temperature and displaying on your phone since very few set of phones had thermal sensor inside. |
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I backed them for an aluminum (or __premium__) one as they named in their shop. I couldn't speak for anything else. |
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### Impression |
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On hardware side, as mentioned earlier, everything about it was awesome. I didn't see any flaw, but some users complained about its cap which should have been screwing type inside of snap lock. I couldn't say it was a deal breaker. Although its color did wear after usage, it did look great still I had to admit that. |
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On software side, when they started their project, they only claimed to have iOS app, but Android app was introduced later on. Maybe it was a stretch goal. I didn't remember much. However, as of now, their Android app was crap. Nothing is good coming out of it no matter how hard you wanted it to be. For iOS app, it did look great as advertised. |
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### Pricing |
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It was expensive at $39 Kickstarter price and it is $44.99 which is way too expensive now at [Thermodo Shop](http://shop.thermodo.com/collections/frontpage/products/premium-thermodo). Not to mention tax and/or shipping which is outrage as far as their HQ location, Europe, is concerned. |
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### Did it work? |
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This project was a flop. Temperature sensitivity was way too slow. Temperature accuracy which was the vital point of this gadgat was **NOT** good enough. |
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Regardless of its price, don't waste your $ or time. Not worth it. If it ever works properly, I would have recommended it because of its apperance alone. So unfortunated. |
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__note:__ I didn't open it up since I would have to destroy the look of it, but I bet it would be comparable to a cheap sensor found in [DHT11](https://www.adafruit.com/products/386) or so. :( I rather have a cool looking gadget although it didn't do a thing functionally. |
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title: "Legion Meter -- a USB current meter" |
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date: Dec 26, 2014 |
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display_name: 'sipp11' |
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categories: Kickstarter review |
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url: http://kck.st/1fM5CJm |
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widget: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/plxdevices/legion-meter-charge-your-smartphone-92-faster/widget/card.html?v=2 |
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This was from one of established companies which came to start a new product line and new customers of course. They used to do a portable battery with a indicator; this shouldn't be hard for them, should they? |
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### Impression |
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Its built was great; screen was nice; it made me believe it was going to last long time. Legion was a plug-and-play sort of thing. Plugging into USB port wherever it is, then your phone cable to the other end. It gave you voltage, current, power, and electricity meter which you could reset. Another feature was a switch to take advantage of fast charging by disable data communications and let your phone drain all current from computer USB port. It worked fine on my 2010 MacBook Pro which switching from 2-3W draw normally to 5-6W draw instantly. |
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One drawback was a data and charging switch; you couldn't switch with your finger, probably could if you had nail. Also it was labelled with A and D. I would have guess D standings for data, yet I could not know what A would mean. That wasn't good at all. Luckily this little gadget was simple enough to guess what things were. |
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#### delay |
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This had no delay whatsoever. |
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### Price |
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$39 at Kickstarter and $69.99 now at [the store](http://plxdevices.com/product_info.php?id=MOBLLEGIONMETER) which has discount every now and then. It sounded expensive, but if you looked around for what that did the same thing, you would find this price is reasonable. I suggested you wait for discount though. |
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### Did it work? |
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Yep, Legion was totally legit. It worked great anytime you used it. You could buy one without regret. |
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