I touched on my idea of a best device during class time one day. I had forgotten to post what I shared, until I was nudged by an email.
When I think about the device that has changed my life, I think of Anna. My older sister was born profoundly deaf, this was discovered at age three. Of course, my mom had visited multiple doctors prior to this diagnosis, but they had all turned up empty. For some reason, they believed that my mom was a crazy first time mom, impatient with her toddler's progress and comparing her daughter to her friend's children. Not only that, my dad was gone a lot so people assumed it was an attention seeking scheme by my mom. Nope, Anna is deaf. The doctor that screened her scrutinized my mom, "it took you this long to discover this", that didn't sit well. Moms know.
Anna wore hearing aides, my family attended sign language classes, she enrolled in mainstream school. My mom took on the role of advocate, always making sure that Anna had all the tools necessary to her success. Alaska was a goldmine, in a lot of ways, they had a stellar program within their schools for the deaf community, then orders came. My dad excelled in the mountaineering courses and the ski schools in Alaska, they hastily pushed for his transfer. My parents weren't looking for an area with more to offer in regards to healthcare and doctors, they went where the Army sent them. We moved to North Carolina, home to one of the most prestigious research hospitals, coincidently. UNC awarded Anna medical care that was specialized and innovative. The audiologists helped my mom and Anna and our family understand deafness and truths about Anna's hearing, as it was a field they were developing and building on extensively. The more they evaluated her, the more they presented information about the Cochlear Implant. Anna was more than a perfect candidate for it. She had exceptional auditory speech, talent in lip reading and a very stable personality, along with a good supportive family. They pushed. My parents took a great deal of time researching, meeting with families, gathering second opinions, discussion things with Anna. Finally, Anna made the decision to move forward.
We always celebrated Anna's deafness, and in no way treated it as something to be fixed.
She got the surgery. Life altering brain surgery. We all adjusted to that change. Anna has a deaf studies degree with a minor in Native American culture. She has educated herself, and our family on the deaf community and the cultural impact that is associated with people who have opted for surgery. Anna is still deaf. She has never tried to be a hearing person. She is a deaf person, with a wearable device. The device is a hard thing to gauge, I'll never know what she hears. Whether it works well, or what her experience is. I just know that it was something. It changed our lives, not for the better, not for the worse, it just changed our lives. Now, as a family we did quit signing, but that was in the works well before the surgery, Anna did not like us to sign in public. (Something that she got over as she got older) I can still understand sign language, when certain people sign, like Anna and some of her close friends. And I can sign myself, I took two years of sign language in high school and participated in one of my high school's sign language plays. The CI did not eliminate the language from my life, or Anna's..it did not magically make her hear. It doesn't allow her to recognize my voice the way it sounds, it gives her headaches. For some reason my voice is really hard for her to hear, and by that I mean, she does not like it. There's something in my voice that hurts her, and from what I have learned, she hears my voice in a somewhat digitized format and the sounds captured are not appealing to her at all. Oh well, we manage. The CI is a small computer processor that sits on her hip, or inside her bra that connects to a wire donning a magnet that rests on her head where there is a microchip embedded in her brain cavity. Anna got this surgery at age 14. She just turned 27, more than ten years later the innovation and contributions to technology have vastly improved. Her surgery cannot be updated, or replaced because of the fragile nature of brain tissue, there is a possibility if they were to replace any of the technology her brain could collapse leaving her brain dead or dead. We opted to leave things be. Anna is not defined by her CI,she can stop wearing it at any time and let that little chip sit in her brain forever. We are happy with the decision and all agree that in the future if any of our children are deaf, we will really address whether a CI is the right route to go. But we, and me especially maintain that for some reason, it was right. Anna says the first song she ever heard was "She thinks my tractor's sexy" by Kenny Chesney. She hardly ever listens to music, and her radio only gets use when her daughter is in the car with her, and even then Anna chooses opera, or church music, not typical radio. However, she loves the song "The Climb" by Miley Cyrus. She has a great talent in interpreting songs, especially at church. She signs the hymns, and I prefer that over anything else in the world. Is it the best device? No. But it's the best device.
Monday, May 4, 2015
Monday, April 27, 2015
Fast
Fast is kind of a dirty word. It's hard. I fast once a month for religious reasons, that is difficult as well. Not only that, but I find myself enthusiastic for food following my fast. I stand in the kitchen until I'm finished with my fast, and I plan out everything I am going to consume. I wondered if this experience was going to be similar.
I committed to 48 hours media free April 10-12, 2015.
I shied away from making a public post, or telling anyone about the fast in general. I wanted to experiment. I told my mom and dad, but that's it. I designated this weekend as a good opportunity because I did not have to work, and I was traveling up north to visit my boyfriend. Yes, I cut a corner. I knew I would spend eight of those 48 hours driving unable to use my cell phone. Over the weekend I knew I needed to correspond with a student friend about a project we were presenting that following monday, still I moved forward. I also did not tell my boyfriend about the fast, around 3:55pm Friday I told My mom and Dad and Taylor that I was leaving and beginning my drive. I threw an unmarked mixed CD in my purse and saddled up for my media free adventure. The CD was a mix a boy made me in tenth grade and I wanted to throw up almost the entire drive, yuck. Sophmores should not be allowed to talk to boys. I got to go down memory lane, I wanted the radio really bad. I held off, and ended up turning off the radio all together. My phone sat in the passenger seat buzzing and illuminating periodically. I wanted to see the messages because part of me was anxious and worried. I drove to Orem without a hitch, imagine if I had encountered a flat tire or some sort of vehicle trouble. Ew. When I arrived in Orem I caught my sister as she was walking out the door, and saw my brother in law frazzled and battling a cold so I stole their daughter and decided I was going to be in charge of her for the evening while I let my brother in law sleep. I realized that I had no way to tell Taylor I was in town. As my sister sped away I said, " Hey text Tay and tell him to come over" she obliged but I never had to explain why I was not capable of texting him myself. He came over and scolded me for not checking in on the drive, and also ignoring his calls. I spilled, I told him about the media fast and he was thrilled, he then flat out told me I needed this. Meanwhile he confirmed plans to meet friends for dinner, I got my sister's baby ready to go. I ran and told my brother in law the plan, "Hey we are taking the baby to go meet people for dinner". He said okay and off we went. It was already after seven, and we took awhile to eat, meanwhile my phone died which I was not even aware of. Also, it was a friday night in Orem/ Provo which equals date night, so the wait for the restaurant was longer than we expected. When Taylor and I returned to my sister's home and brought her baby to her, she looked worried and said, Bette! Where is your phone I was texting you, and Casey called you". I then told her it was dead and she expressed that she had been worrying and then I told her about my media fast. Everything was fine but I could tell that I had caused some worry and concern by not answering my device for almost two hours. I felt guilty and somehow I felt irresponsible. The rest of the weekend went okay for the most part, my hands were stressed. I kept grabbing my phone and automatically hitting the facebook widget and I would quickly press the apple home screen repeatedly as fast as lightning before anything would load. My hands just had a rhythm and I became aware of it that weekend, for some reason my thumb would go straight to facebook even if I was just checking the time. I was nervous about losing my phone so I didn't lock it up in my glovebox or leave it in the bottom of my purse. I'm always holding my phone or keeping it within reach, I could not give up the reins that much. I needed it around. My one and only flub was when my work called me I knew that I had to answer. I did resist multiple texts messages, including my group text. My best friend from NY was texting me, I had seven from her. I knew that meant boyfriend trouble. My school friend partner had texted me three times, I was starting to feel anxious. I also did not do homework over this weekend. I did not want to be tempted by Canvas or .. Google. I knew that I was not utilizing my time but I was determined to not cave. The internet and media and data tugged at my conscious all weekend, I had been triple charged by an online clothing purchase and I was stressed about checking my bank account because I knew the longer that went the more likely it was not going to be fixed, I wanted to see if the phone operator had sorted out the issue, just for peace of mind. I felt flakey as a friend and school partner. I was completely useless without Yelp for deciding where to eat so I took on the role of taxi cab, music-less taxi driver. I went on a lot of walks with my niece and boyfriend and I cooked several meals that weekend. When Sunday rolled by I had my sister text my dad and tell him I was on my way and he said "Bette, If I call you better answer", I told her to respond, "Don't call". Everyone was much more nervous as I departed back to St. George especially since it was eight pm when I was leaving, my fast was over but I still decided to keep going until I got back to St. George. When I arrived home at twelve-thirty pm I immediately fired up my laptop and got to work on responding to my school partner and finishing up the final touches on our presentation. When I saw her the next morning I could tell she was frustrated by my absence and I told her about the fast and she still was not entirely impressed. Our presentation went fine, in fact it was one of my better presentations, I wasn't as nervous for some reason. I then went right back to my normal routine, after my presentation I celebrated by scrolling through my favorite shopping apps between classes the rest of my day. I was surprised that I had extended my fast a few hours, I thought it would be similar to me on the first sunday of the month, anxious for food. I thought I would need my media back, instead I let it serve as a reward for completing my assignment and then following my classes. I think putting the phone and media on the shelf for a a weekend is a great idea, I think that I could ease into the idea and make it a common occurrence in my life. Of course I would have to find a way to believe that everything will be okay if I do not respond to a text or answer a phone call. I was nervous and nerves are not a fun experience. I'd like to get to a point where I am not nervous because of a cell phone. I found myself feeling extremely accountable to people, and less accountable to myself. I realized I was worrying about accommodating others who needed to be in contact with me. The pressure to respond and care and act is somewhat consuming when it comes to a device. I want to practice putting my phone away and try to stop myself from letting my thumb lerch towards facebook immediately following my unlock screen. I'll have to try something like this again now that I've make some observances. My media usage is still normal but I want to institute some moments where my phone is not near me and see what that is like.
I committed to 48 hours media free April 10-12, 2015.
I shied away from making a public post, or telling anyone about the fast in general. I wanted to experiment. I told my mom and dad, but that's it. I designated this weekend as a good opportunity because I did not have to work, and I was traveling up north to visit my boyfriend. Yes, I cut a corner. I knew I would spend eight of those 48 hours driving unable to use my cell phone. Over the weekend I knew I needed to correspond with a student friend about a project we were presenting that following monday, still I moved forward. I also did not tell my boyfriend about the fast, around 3:55pm Friday I told My mom and Dad and Taylor that I was leaving and beginning my drive. I threw an unmarked mixed CD in my purse and saddled up for my media free adventure. The CD was a mix a boy made me in tenth grade and I wanted to throw up almost the entire drive, yuck. Sophmores should not be allowed to talk to boys. I got to go down memory lane, I wanted the radio really bad. I held off, and ended up turning off the radio all together. My phone sat in the passenger seat buzzing and illuminating periodically. I wanted to see the messages because part of me was anxious and worried. I drove to Orem without a hitch, imagine if I had encountered a flat tire or some sort of vehicle trouble. Ew. When I arrived in Orem I caught my sister as she was walking out the door, and saw my brother in law frazzled and battling a cold so I stole their daughter and decided I was going to be in charge of her for the evening while I let my brother in law sleep. I realized that I had no way to tell Taylor I was in town. As my sister sped away I said, " Hey text Tay and tell him to come over" she obliged but I never had to explain why I was not capable of texting him myself. He came over and scolded me for not checking in on the drive, and also ignoring his calls. I spilled, I told him about the media fast and he was thrilled, he then flat out told me I needed this. Meanwhile he confirmed plans to meet friends for dinner, I got my sister's baby ready to go. I ran and told my brother in law the plan, "Hey we are taking the baby to go meet people for dinner". He said okay and off we went. It was already after seven, and we took awhile to eat, meanwhile my phone died which I was not even aware of. Also, it was a friday night in Orem/ Provo which equals date night, so the wait for the restaurant was longer than we expected. When Taylor and I returned to my sister's home and brought her baby to her, she looked worried and said, Bette! Where is your phone I was texting you, and Casey called you". I then told her it was dead and she expressed that she had been worrying and then I told her about my media fast. Everything was fine but I could tell that I had caused some worry and concern by not answering my device for almost two hours. I felt guilty and somehow I felt irresponsible. The rest of the weekend went okay for the most part, my hands were stressed. I kept grabbing my phone and automatically hitting the facebook widget and I would quickly press the apple home screen repeatedly as fast as lightning before anything would load. My hands just had a rhythm and I became aware of it that weekend, for some reason my thumb would go straight to facebook even if I was just checking the time. I was nervous about losing my phone so I didn't lock it up in my glovebox or leave it in the bottom of my purse. I'm always holding my phone or keeping it within reach, I could not give up the reins that much. I needed it around. My one and only flub was when my work called me I knew that I had to answer. I did resist multiple texts messages, including my group text. My best friend from NY was texting me, I had seven from her. I knew that meant boyfriend trouble. My school friend partner had texted me three times, I was starting to feel anxious. I also did not do homework over this weekend. I did not want to be tempted by Canvas or .. Google. I knew that I was not utilizing my time but I was determined to not cave. The internet and media and data tugged at my conscious all weekend, I had been triple charged by an online clothing purchase and I was stressed about checking my bank account because I knew the longer that went the more likely it was not going to be fixed, I wanted to see if the phone operator had sorted out the issue, just for peace of mind. I felt flakey as a friend and school partner. I was completely useless without Yelp for deciding where to eat so I took on the role of taxi cab, music-less taxi driver. I went on a lot of walks with my niece and boyfriend and I cooked several meals that weekend. When Sunday rolled by I had my sister text my dad and tell him I was on my way and he said "Bette, If I call you better answer", I told her to respond, "Don't call". Everyone was much more nervous as I departed back to St. George especially since it was eight pm when I was leaving, my fast was over but I still decided to keep going until I got back to St. George. When I arrived home at twelve-thirty pm I immediately fired up my laptop and got to work on responding to my school partner and finishing up the final touches on our presentation. When I saw her the next morning I could tell she was frustrated by my absence and I told her about the fast and she still was not entirely impressed. Our presentation went fine, in fact it was one of my better presentations, I wasn't as nervous for some reason. I then went right back to my normal routine, after my presentation I celebrated by scrolling through my favorite shopping apps between classes the rest of my day. I was surprised that I had extended my fast a few hours, I thought it would be similar to me on the first sunday of the month, anxious for food. I thought I would need my media back, instead I let it serve as a reward for completing my assignment and then following my classes. I think putting the phone and media on the shelf for a a weekend is a great idea, I think that I could ease into the idea and make it a common occurrence in my life. Of course I would have to find a way to believe that everything will be okay if I do not respond to a text or answer a phone call. I was nervous and nerves are not a fun experience. I'd like to get to a point where I am not nervous because of a cell phone. I found myself feeling extremely accountable to people, and less accountable to myself. I realized I was worrying about accommodating others who needed to be in contact with me. The pressure to respond and care and act is somewhat consuming when it comes to a device. I want to practice putting my phone away and try to stop myself from letting my thumb lerch towards facebook immediately following my unlock screen. I'll have to try something like this again now that I've make some observances. My media usage is still normal but I want to institute some moments where my phone is not near me and see what that is like.
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Description:
Sharing: Social sharing, Not a huge egg fan, but need just one to complete your recipe, well your neighbor three streets over has six in excess that they do not plan on using. Trade them a potato for an egg to complete your recipe for the evening. Or even borrow one on the house for the sake of not wasting them! Knowing that resources will not go to waste or down the drain is a great incentive to locate people nearby who will be able to use your extra supplies and take them off your hands.
Videos: Tutorials and videos showcasing step by step processes for recipes and access to videos showcasing your favorite chefs demonstrating how-to's via in-app purchase.
Special Diet: On a gluten-free diet? Look through our categories that feature special diets and find recipes suited for your food specifications. This could be a chance for you to consider going vegan!
Cupboard Inventory: Use a photo scanning system to scan your food items barcode as you put them into your refrigerator or pantry. Keep a stock pile list of what you have and find recipes in app that will utilize ingredients on hand, or nearby (neighbor-share). In addition to knowing what's available within your home, know how much is available based on our photo-recognition software that can monitor how much is being consumed or used!
Photo-recognition: Photo-recognition software makes calorie counting as easy as snapping a picture on your device. Simply take a picture of your plate and let this app configure the calories or total grams of food, then use this to monitor how much of an item is left in your cupboard or fridge.
Information:
Seller: MealMaster
Category: Food & Drink
Version:1.0
Size:40 MB
Rating:
Family Sharing: Yes
Compatibility: Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
Languages: English
Sharing: Social sharing, Not a huge egg fan, but need just one to complete your recipe, well your neighbor three streets over has six in excess that they do not plan on using. Trade them a potato for an egg to complete your recipe for the evening. Or even borrow one on the house for the sake of not wasting them! Knowing that resources will not go to waste or down the drain is a great incentive to locate people nearby who will be able to use your extra supplies and take them off your hands.
Videos: Tutorials and videos showcasing step by step processes for recipes and access to videos showcasing your favorite chefs demonstrating how-to's via in-app purchase.
Special Diet: On a gluten-free diet? Look through our categories that feature special diets and find recipes suited for your food specifications. This could be a chance for you to consider going vegan!
Cupboard Inventory: Use a photo scanning system to scan your food items barcode as you put them into your refrigerator or pantry. Keep a stock pile list of what you have and find recipes in app that will utilize ingredients on hand, or nearby (neighbor-share). In addition to knowing what's available within your home, know how much is available based on our photo-recognition software that can monitor how much is being consumed or used!
Photo-recognition: Photo-recognition software makes calorie counting as easy as snapping a picture on your device. Simply take a picture of your plate and let this app configure the calories or total grams of food, then use this to monitor how much of an item is left in your cupboard or fridge.
Information:
Seller: MealMaster
Category: Food & Drink
Version:1.0
Size:40 MB
Rating:
Family Sharing: Yes
Compatibility: Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
Languages: English
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Audience
Rachel is a part-time high school teacher. She has an eighteen month old, and recently found out she is expecting her second child. Between grocery shopping, a forty minute lunch break, and limited time in the morning to contemplate food options, meal times leave her somewhat frazzled. She's in a rut due to the amount of time she spends preparing toddler appropriate food, and has noticed she has decreased her creativity and variety of meals. She's generally content with some frozen Panda Express orange chicken entrees and calling it good. Another food related concern is weight, she gained 40 lbs. during her pregnancy and has not been able to shed any of the extra weight post-partum. She's nervous about her current pregnancy and accepting that her body has drastically changed possibly for good, she's come to terms with her less svelte body but would like to monitor and regulate what she is consuming so it does not get out of control. She does not have extra time to meal prep and pre-plan her dinners, and would like to have quick access to different options and know the calorie count involved. She plans to get a calorie intake recommendation from her doctor at her next check-up and would like to follow that but doesn't know if she will be able to keep it up.
Sunday, March 29, 2015
App review
Mint
"The Mint Service is a personal finance information management service that allows you to consolidate and track your financial information. The Mint Service is provided to you by Intuit without charge (it is free) and is meant to provide you with your information to allow you to organize and manage your finances."
https://www.mint.com/
The banking report card, money for dummies... FOR FREE.
Privacy: https://www.mint.com/privacy
App Store:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mint-personal-finance/id300238550?mt=8&lift_campaign_osid-11=signup-slider&lift_option_set_osid-11=signup-slider-text-revisited&lift_decision_osid-11=option-a
Accolades:
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/mint/7b5bbe58-6089-41a4-909e-f0089fda5dce?lift_campaign_osid-11=signup-slider&lift_option_set_osid-11=signup-slider-text-revisited&lift_decision_osid-11=option-a
"The Mint Service is a personal finance information management service that allows you to consolidate and track your financial information. The Mint Service is provided to you by Intuit without charge (it is free) and is meant to provide you with your information to allow you to organize and manage your finances."
https://www.mint.com/
The banking report card, money for dummies... FOR FREE.
Privacy: https://www.mint.com/privacy
App Store:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mint-personal-finance/id300238550?mt=8&lift_campaign_osid-11=signup-slider&lift_option_set_osid-11=signup-slider-text-revisited&lift_decision_osid-11=option-a
Accolades:
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/mint/7b5bbe58-6089-41a4-909e-f0089fda5dce?lift_campaign_osid-11=signup-slider&lift_option_set_osid-11=signup-slider-text-revisited&lift_decision_osid-11=option-a
Size: 6 MB
Published by Inuit Inc.
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Gabby & Janey
Watch a few of these reviews and make notes on what works, what doesn't, and kind of determine what we want our app to be able to do that this doesn't. Keep in mind we want our app to be able to connect to grocery stores for prices, coupons,track expiration dates, send reminders about food spoiling, etc. Those type of notes, and watching the woman stand by the fridge in the first clip kind of exhausted me, it reminds me of the days of channel flipping from the actual console rather than remote in your hand use, everything can be displayed on your smart phone so why have the fridge screen in the first place? I seems like an additional cost, maybe we can come up with a way to have this whole system, along with our additions, all on one device. Let's also research whether or not this can be sent to more than one phone, say your husband's?
LG Refrigerator
Example one
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Example four
Let's post our comments beneath this post.
LG Refrigerator
Example one
Example two
Example three
Example four
Let's post our comments beneath this post.
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Group Work [Gabby & Janey]
Some of my findings so far..
I've been browsing the market for what's currently out there on the market and finding a niche for our app.
An article about the 10 best cooking apps and a short run-down on what the apps offer.
^Pay particular attention to "Appetites" because of it's same day delivery of recipes that you can shop in-app, available in 9 major cities. And, "Cookpad" recipes application allows for recipe trading, forums and chat room type communication again, in-app.This last app is basically a network for the foodies that actually like to make the food they consume, opposed to the dine-in , take out foodies we see often times on instagram.
The point of this article kind of illustrates that there are variety of applications right now that currently do what we have considered offering in our app, I'm weary of being redundant.
So let's try to brainstorm a few more ideas.
I still like the food aspect, I think it's a pain that we all have.
EVERYONE:
A) eats
B) gets hungry
and let's face it...
a chunk of our income each month goes towards food.
Let's try to address the consumer money aspect.
Is there a way to monitor this?
How much do we pay attention to what we buy?
What's in your pantry, how fast do you use it?
I'm a creature of habit I tend to have staples in my household that are alwayyys there.
For instance, bananas I buy bunches of them by two or threes. What if I knew exactly how many days it takes for me to consume a my supply.
What if we could use our phones to scan the barcode as we unpack our groceries, and then scan again as we throw out the box or last peel. This would be a way to keep track relatively of how quickly you consume something, and it could help alleviate the chore of grocery shopping.
Knowing how quickly you will use something will also help you make buying decisions and lean towards better deals.
Ideally it would be best if we could somehow conceptualize a way to link our bank account into this equation, our itemized list of things we bought at smiths then we could link that into finding recipes with what we have on hand...
And, if we could geographically have a connection between consumption and grocery pit-stops that would be great as well.
Say you and your roommate finish a box of cliff bars in three days, and as you are passing smiths with their 10 for $10, you get an alert on day 2 that says, tomorrow you'll run out of bars stop by smiths and grab some and save this grocery trip....
Another point to make, this idea could combat over buying.
Buying too many lbs of green beans or a too large head of broccoli.
We all have our phones with us. All the time. And in every room of our homes.
So it isn't a huge chore to input into our phone on our photo of a head of broccoli, "1/4 used" and what if the app is able to alert us three days after this, "3/4 broccoli left" decay life of broccoli only four more days edible. ( I hate throwing out unused produce..) So after we cut off the amount that we will use that evening, grab your phone and hit 1/2 left..
Or you get an alert that says "buy salmon, you have broccoli that goes bad soon" (because your food app knows you like salmon with your broccoli ..because of your known spending habits)
This app would think for us, because I hate the "what should we have for dinner" "where should we go eat" the app would say this is what you have... here's an option.
In a perfect world we would all meal plan, and eat healthy balanced meals, instead of turning to our "perceived as easier alternative"... takeout. This could be our other easy... and it could be a step towards getting back to healthy good for you food... instead of hitting up Mcdonald's getting two large fries and a 6 piece of nuggets and calling it good..
Okay ladies, what do you think?
ANY comments are appreciated and encouraged and I will see you all Monday.
I've been browsing the market for what's currently out there on the market and finding a niche for our app.
An article about the 10 best cooking apps and a short run-down on what the apps offer.
^Pay particular attention to "Appetites" because of it's same day delivery of recipes that you can shop in-app, available in 9 major cities. And, "Cookpad" recipes application allows for recipe trading, forums and chat room type communication again, in-app.This last app is basically a network for the foodies that actually like to make the food they consume, opposed to the dine-in , take out foodies we see often times on instagram.
The point of this article kind of illustrates that there are variety of applications right now that currently do what we have considered offering in our app, I'm weary of being redundant.
So let's try to brainstorm a few more ideas.
I still like the food aspect, I think it's a pain that we all have.
EVERYONE:
A) eats
B) gets hungry
and let's face it...
a chunk of our income each month goes towards food.
Let's try to address the consumer money aspect.
Is there a way to monitor this?
How much do we pay attention to what we buy?
What's in your pantry, how fast do you use it?
I'm a creature of habit I tend to have staples in my household that are alwayyys there.
For instance, bananas I buy bunches of them by two or threes. What if I knew exactly how many days it takes for me to consume a my supply.
What if we could use our phones to scan the barcode as we unpack our groceries, and then scan again as we throw out the box or last peel. This would be a way to keep track relatively of how quickly you consume something, and it could help alleviate the chore of grocery shopping.
Knowing how quickly you will use something will also help you make buying decisions and lean towards better deals.
Ideally it would be best if we could somehow conceptualize a way to link our bank account into this equation, our itemized list of things we bought at smiths then we could link that into finding recipes with what we have on hand...
And, if we could geographically have a connection between consumption and grocery pit-stops that would be great as well.
Say you and your roommate finish a box of cliff bars in three days, and as you are passing smiths with their 10 for $10, you get an alert on day 2 that says, tomorrow you'll run out of bars stop by smiths and grab some and save this grocery trip....
Another point to make, this idea could combat over buying.
Buying too many lbs of green beans or a too large head of broccoli.
We all have our phones with us. All the time. And in every room of our homes.
So it isn't a huge chore to input into our phone on our photo of a head of broccoli, "1/4 used" and what if the app is able to alert us three days after this, "3/4 broccoli left" decay life of broccoli only four more days edible. ( I hate throwing out unused produce..) So after we cut off the amount that we will use that evening, grab your phone and hit 1/2 left..
Or you get an alert that says "buy salmon, you have broccoli that goes bad soon" (because your food app knows you like salmon with your broccoli ..because of your known spending habits)
This app would think for us, because I hate the "what should we have for dinner" "where should we go eat" the app would say this is what you have... here's an option.
In a perfect world we would all meal plan, and eat healthy balanced meals, instead of turning to our "perceived as easier alternative"... takeout. This could be our other easy... and it could be a step towards getting back to healthy good for you food... instead of hitting up Mcdonald's getting two large fries and a 6 piece of nuggets and calling it good..
Okay ladies, what do you think?
ANY comments are appreciated and encouraged and I will see you all Monday.
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