Introducing JustTheBell
Help us create JustTheBell and free our bedrooms from mobile phones!
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Because we love the digital, but realise how addictive it can be, even spoiling some bedroom-related moments. We all agreed bedrooms would be nicer if they were free of mobile phones. Some we decided to build a simple product capable of doing just that: free bedrooms from mobile phones.
Yes, we could. But we found nothing as simple, portable and convenient as our smartphones' alarm clocks. So we kept using them. Sad story. Until we had the idea: let's keep using them, but bring inside the bedroom the only thing we really need to be there: the bell. JustTheBell is simple and smart enough to be a real alternative to your smartphone super-convenient alarm clock. Probably the only one you might find right now in the market.
In fact JustTheBell only uses the Bluetooth port a few seconds, to sync with your smartphone and know at what times you want the alarms to ring. Once the sync is done, it closes all ports, ensuring your bedroom is free of waves and bits and so on.
In fact the airplane mode might kill the networking capabilities of your smartphone, but still would not solve three big issues about mixing digital devices & bedrooms. First, you end up bringing your phone to bed, which means you will stare at a digital screen seconds before trying to fall asleep: studies show how disruptive this is to sleep. Second, as soon as your mobile phone is inside the bedroom, we all know what happens: you check mails and messages from the bed, or wake up in the morning and before saying hello to your partner read a mail from your boss. That's not cool, and we all know it, right? Oh, and third: even in airplane mode, your phone is still on. And a smartphone is an electromagnetic device with quite powerful fields involved, even when its connectivity is turned off.
Because, even loving our concept-product and being convinced about how useful it is, we wanted to prove to ourselves that we are not alone in the battle of freeing bedrooms from mobile phones. This is our ultimate test to verify that you, potential final user –and enjoyer!– of the JustTheBell feel the same we do, and love this tiny wooden cube as we do, and want to have it very very soon in your bedrooms table as we do. So you just have to say 'Yes I do!' and we will make it happen.
We have some experience producing things, and we are indeed assessed by some very serious –yet super kind– production partners. It just takes a while to make things well. So we decided to set always the worst case scenario timing, just to be sure if there is any change it is always for the better.