Screen-free beepers for children
A wearable or clip-on children's beeper with a tiny screen and a limited set of contacts or messages. It would let children remain reachable without giving them a smartphone, while preserving a small amount of independent communication.
hybrid B2C Product / E-commerce
From My First Million — 9 drunk ideas that sound stupid (but are secretly genius) at 28:48
Problem: Children need a way to contact parents or friends while parents want to reduce smartphone access, location surveillance and unrestricted communication.
For: Parents who want children to be reachable without smartphones, and children who enjoy carrying or wearing their own device and exchanging limited messages with friends.
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Examples
- Tin Can: a Wi-Fi-based physical phone for children with pre-programmed numbers; it costs $100 for the phone and $10 per month to call non-Tin-Can phones, while calls to other Tin Can devices are free.
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