underwater text messaging

jvk

WTF

I just found out that Montauk also holds the Annual Brits vs Yanks Tournament...seems like some people over here are feeling oppressed

jvk

My thoughts exactly. You need to pre-define the messages on a PC before diving. Not very useful IMO, but it could be fun "there's a shark behind you"... if it doesn't turn out to be vaporware. Looks like they've spent considerable money on developing it (3 patents, DEMA, the website etc).

Specs are on their website, under "Support > Support" again. The unit uses ultrasonic technology.

EBT

Mind you, could be fun seeing whats predefined. Think I'd have

• You might be OOG, but visa ISNT accepted everywhere. I take cash
• TTS 15 mins. Brown sauce on the bacon sarny please
• The telegraph was mine, please hide it and the lift bag
• xyz is busting for a pee, make a point of helping them dekit slooooowly.
• It wasnt me. (simple classic)
• We're DIV, I'll be reporting an extra 50m of depth today

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lizardland

You've missed off the ever popular "f*** it", "what the f*** was that?" and "f*** off".

Predictive text on my phone isn't hard worked, it's generally a combination of "f***" and a preposition

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iain-hsm

That nice, I remember we all discussed this some time back in 2005 with military controller project and systems. That what all the holes in the green brick was for LOL. Not quite your qwerty keyboard (the other bits were for the C02 detector we offered). It was shown at DEMA 05 and 06 I guess now that others have patented the idea, not much chance of us making any more.

Photo from the RBW site 2005 military rebreather controllers.

http://www.rebreatherworld.com/gener...stick-1st.html

Iain Middlebrook

diverreb

I saw the demo at DEMA and while the text messaging is nice, it isn't a bad emergency location system. Shortcomings being signals being bounced off wrecks and high pieces of wreckage. They explained that while it might not take you on a direct route, it will eventually guide you to the signal being output.

One of the neat features is if your unit is pinged by the boat or another diver and you don't respond within a specified period of time, the unit automatically sends out an SOS homing signal for other units to pick up.

I tried to explain to them that the technology, assuming it works, would be more beneficial to technical divers. They insisted I was wrong and that their target market was the recreational diver and dive charter business catering to that market.....thus the lack He & only one a single gas program.

They actually had working units and were demoing them. They worked well in and around the booth.

Richie

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Iain, in the US, patents work with the "first to invent" rule. Most companies involved in dive gear are too amateur to do proper log books, so have no proof they invented it until they show it at a show or file a patent application. If you show your bound log book with the development, signed by a boss or a QA manager regularly, you could claim the patents off them. This is a trick some companies specialise in: let the competitors patent everything, then claim the patents because the owner is the one who invented it first. You have to show a bit more than "holes in the case" though!

Alex

iain-hsm

Hahaha You talking about us? LOL You know us too well Alex.
No dont worry we keep every scrap of paper, every meeting log, every drawing including the ones on fag packets, and the doodles, and there stored for 20 years, including jpegs now. After then no ones can remember what the heck it was for in the first place.

As for showing a bit more than holes in the case I agree but what the heck do you think they were for? besides if we told everyone all about what it was for and who it was designed for etc they would be as wise as me (or laugh).

Frankly in UK patents are too expensive to file and to expensive to uphold and defend. Most small companies would go bust trying. A better solution (for us) is to try and sell to the big companies and let them defend it. Leaving us with just a manufacturing agreement. Beside RBW or any other forum isnt interested in the main in full details of diving equiment design. iain