A Few Technical Difficulties

The band/phone based health-tech that is SeeMe reinforced the idea of bringing together social media, technology, and health monitoring to help people be their best selves. With Facebook linkage, a wristband to help monitor some vitals, and phone features to bring everything all together SeeMe should be a standout product. However, there are a few problems with the tech that prevent it from being a must have solution to some of today's problems.

For Starters, the cost analysis. The cost of the product - as explained during the presentation- is supposed to be under 100 dollars. Supposed. Their is no guarantee that it is. The issue with that is that their is no real selling point that would make someone want to spend out big money on an application. The tech is available on multiple watch surfaces, and because of that is limits the exclusiveness of the tech. It makes people question what is so unique if it does the same things that other free or cheaper applications already available to them can do. It was explained that the cost would be waived depending on financial need and then when enough money was earned it would be lowered. The issue is that by lowering the cost when the company has gained enough money is that people would be upset if they had to pay an extensive amount of money for the application just for others to pay little to nothing at all for reasons other than insurance covering the bulk of the cost.

Another issue that's hard to ignore simply because it wasn't explained well was how the watch would measure certain health problems on second party devices. This was something I didn't seem to get, and although I understand that they were just trying to ensure that the app was accessible, they neglected the fact that by making it accessible across multiple platforms they'd have to give up certain features. Every smart watch can't nor does it measure  the same things. It was a valiant effort it just doesn’t seem that it’ll work.

The overall idea was pretty good and the team made an effort to elaborate and expand on the invention in words. No idea comes perfect, but it was the effort that counted. Besides what’s a new invention with a few technical difficulties.