Sophi13

Very cool! Just wondering how you verified the crowdsourced products? Like users submitted their reviews and the products with the max number of good reviews made it to the list or you guys tests out the products on your end as well?

I totally feel you on the first 10 mins thing haha. I usually stand out with all doors open, ac on full for like 5 minutes before I even get in. It's a problem almost everywhere and can't wait to have an effective solution to that. Someone in this thread shared that tesla doesn't let the car heat up to higher than 100 degrees, hopefully other car manufacturers take note.

Good to know there are third party devices out there at least. Eventually would love to see this functionality in-built in all car seats so even parents who think "this would never happen to me" have to have it because seriously, could happen to anyone.

Thanks for sharing Sensealife's link, I've shared it in many online parenthood communities, maybe it could help save a life.

I agree about 'nag ' alerts which trigger every time being quite useless - if a parent is so phased out they forget their child they're probably going to tune out routine alerts as well. And yes motion sensors would be costly. So let's go even more basic. Seems like these accidents happen predominantly in rear facing car seats. So just a light at the back of the car seat which turns on when the seat belt is fastened would indicate there's a baby in it. Kinda like an "occupied" sign on airline restrooms. If the baby's seat belt is fastened it's a sure indicator there's a baby in it ( I mean who re-fastens the belt after taking their kid out lol) and the light would be visible to the driver through the rear view mirror or when they get out. Can't say much about manufacturers trying to escape liability but you're probably right about that. Apparently there is a bill being presented for a law to make all car manufacturers install alerts to check back seats but again, routine alerts are easily ignorable

Be sure to let me know when you do Peter!

I could not agree more when you say that building services which target the needs/limitations faced by the unconnected is the way forward rather than just expanding the infrastructure, and it's refreshing to see someone realize that. It's not just about making the internet available, it's also about teaching the unconnected 'how' to use it (I feel the UX layer of the internet may be broken for the unconnected) And even more important to teach them 'why' (i.e: a farmer in some developing rural area might not really care to connect with friends via social networks or download music, however, teaching him how to check the weather online, might just bump his livelihood up a few notches.) The word here I guess is 'relevance'. Yes, I have been working on digital literacy with under privileged people, we have also been running extensive usability tests to help understand how the unconnected interact with basic internet services, however, I feel there is a lot more to be discovered about the dynamics of this completely untapped demographic.