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It's a desk clock with something extra cool. This was one of the top items on my Kickstarter wish list of 2014.

Impression

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First of all, I didn't particularly fond of USB (power) port on the back since it would be in a way if you wanted to have LaMetric on the wall (No mount hole either.) It should have had a USB port inside the container. Although, the material and build quality was nice, the most interesting thing on LaMetric, LEDs, wasn't that sharp -- yeah it's blurry. IMHO, it had to be some sort of material selection problem while manufacturing. It looked out-of-focus. Not that it was a deal breaker or anything, but I was sure that this cosmetic issue alone might put me off buying on in store where I could see before buy.

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Besides drawbacks above, I was satisfied with this thing. Easy peacy setup on both Android & iOS. Putting the LaMetric a bit further away from your eyes, then that blur screen issue was sorta negligible. At this point, there weren't that many app selections; hopefully, it would get better as time went by. Apps from LaMetric like GMail notifier, Facebook Like count, Stopwatch, Timer, count down worked as expected. Not that many options/tweaks so far.

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All information shown here was fetched via 802.11n WiFi. There were times I thought they should just put a temperate sensor (<$2 normally) instead of getting that infomation from elsewhere.

Delay

Estimated delivery: Jan 2015; Actual delivery: Oct 2015. It was a long wait.

Price

$119 at Kickstarter (Early Birds) + $25 shipping to Thailand

It was expensive, but its uniqueness really shined. If it was $89 or lower, I would have bought 3 of them and put them together. That was how much I liked it so far.

Verdict

If they could fix the blurry LEDs to have a sharper look as all (rendered) advertising images, I bet this would be a thing people craving for. Until then, it would still be just a niche market for fun :)

Well, I didn't even critic its software side. IMHO, with what they already had, it was good enough. (although it could be much much better w/ variety of apps.)