We are a society obsessed with technology based around organization and efficiency, so doesn’t it make sense that you would possess one item to assist you with priorities in communications and assignments? Most of us don’t have the luxury of a personal assistant to go through our e-mail for us and prioritize, or just answer everything that needs to be addressed. The creators of E-mail Watch, based in Italy, are smart about technology and managing time, and they want to share it with the rest of us.
What a relief it can be to suppress all the dubla-dinks and pings and dings, and just check out altogether without the feeling that you need to be listening or checking in compulsively for that one email that may or may not arrive in the hour — or even the day. E-mail Watch requires only a quiet glance when you choose to look away from current activities.
With the small, 3D printed box lodged on your desk, four different hierarchies of color can be set up to blink, according to priority status of emails coming in to Gmail, which can be easily assorted due to level of importance. It’s recommended that you assign categories to your items like finances, personal, and work, and weed out items that might not need immediate attention like social media notifications or your everyday pesky spam.
E-Mail Watch allows you to assess incoming information in a second. The top left indicator lets you know what priority email just came in, while the ‘special box’ lights up if something you most likely need to look at right away is waiting for your attention.
Categories are highlighted by blue, green, purple, cyan, and yellow. Red and blue are indicator lights specifying, respectively, errors and successful connections. Yellow also works as an indication of a temporary problem.
Made of a compact 3D printed box, the E-mail Watch is:
- MicroUSB powered
- Supported by Spark Core for electronics
- LED illuminated with four multicolors
- A stand-alone device
- Wi-Fi connected
Prototypes have already been successfully created, tested, and are currently running, with plans to make the device compatible with all e-mail servers. The company also plans to have notifications delivered even faster than 45 seconds within an email hitting your inbox.
With an Indiegogo campaign running right now, in hopes to raise €3,500 (just over $4K US), with rewards, based on the amount of pledge, that are all different versions, basic and advanced, of the E-Mail Watch. The fixed-fund campaign is scheduled to end on January 20th. This is a fun product to check out — not to mention a great gift idea if you are looking to light up the ‘special’ star for a certain someone on a daily basis. With a top pledge of €99, you receive the full 3D printed E-Mail Watch product with all the accessories, to include a 3D printed color cover with your name on it.
Do you think a product like E-Mail Watch would help you be more efficient on a daily basis? Does an open-source design like this interest you? Tell us about it in the 3D Printed ‘E-mail Watch’ forum over at 3DPB.com.