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“How you design the beep is important.” Behind the movement for calmer gadgets. (arstechnica.com)
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The Eight Laws of ~~Robotics~~ Calmness:

  1. Technology should require the smallest possible amount of attention.
  2. Technology should inform and create calm.
  3. Technology should make use of the periphery.
  4. Technology should amplify the best of technology and the best of humanity.
  5. Technology can communicate, but doesn’t need to speak.
  6. Technology should work even when it fails.
  7. The right amount of technology is the minimum needed to solve the problem.
  8. Technology should respect social norms.

I'm a little suspicious about a certification body that's paid for by producers, but it's fine if they can make it work.

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[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Whereas I think the opposite with my washer and dryer. It plays a little tune when it’s done. I’m sure that’s nice but I’d rather tha annoying loud buzz because I’ll actually hear it.

Maybe I missed the boat and no one else has laundry in their basement anymore, but I want a notification that successfully notifies me.

I always wondered why there wasn’t a basic pluggable notification capability. Consider a landline phone or a doorbell: you could buy devices to vibrate or flash, or be really loud, so hearing impaired folk get the notification. Don’t those same hearing impaired people also need to do laundry? Don’t lots of people with good hearing still have laundry in basements and garages? Why hasn’t there been a standard cheap notification output for decades, even from analog times?

[-] elmicha@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

You could plug in a power meter with wifi and look what power is used.

You could use a babyphone or a camera (e.g. an old phone).

I'm not sure if an Alexa (Echo Dot or so) would react on the little tune of your washer, but it hears the standard annoying beeps of my washer.

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Being able to plug in a notification device would be awesome.

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