In today's hectic urban lifestyle, many of us find it difficult to maintain a healthy lifestyle while juggling what life throws at us. In this age of multitasking and instant gratification, there are constant distractions, disruptions, temptations that throw us off our fitness plans.

The promise of activity trackers to improve our fitness has not yielded significant results. Most fitness trackers on the market record daily activities and provide statistical data to the users; most apps employ leaderboards letting users compete against each other.  Wearable fitness trackers are failing to gain traction with users. As soon as the novelty wears off and progress becomes stagnant, users do not continue to wear the fitness trackers.

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Star.21 Fitness Band

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We need you support in this crowdfunding campaign to reach out to more users, to help more people cultivate long lasting healthy habits. We need your support to validate the concept and build a community of positive habits cultivators. This increase the user base for collecting user feedback, to continuously improve on Star.21.

This crowdfunding project is important to bring the project from pilot production to mass production. The funds will ensure we meet the target timeline for mass production.

During product development and various prototyping stages, we have tested numerous materials and different levels of transparency to achieve the desired lighting effect per the original design intention. The mechanical engineers and industrial designers experimented with different light guide designs approach. In fact two plastic injection moulds were fabricated to determine the light guide design required to achieve the star-like lighting effect.


The Star.21 fitness band puts a constraint on the battery size; our electronic engineers optimized the power consumption of various components to provide power to light up the 21 brilliant LED lights. 8 different types of LEDs were tested to determine the one with the right balance of brightness and power consumption.



Choice of materials
Comfort was the most critical consideration in the material selection. To ensure Star.21 is suitable for all day wearing. We seek to find a material that is dermatological safe, dirt resistant, light weight and have the right hardness. We went through intensive testing during the injection moulding and  pilot production to find the right mix of thermoplastic polyurethane.

Although we managed to achieve 15 days of battery life from a single charge, the development team went a step further striving to make charging more convenient. The choice of charging via a micro USB cable makes it more convenient. Most fitness bands have propriety charging connectors or wireless charging that requires users to bring additional charging apparatus. The micro USB allows it be charged via the computer's USB port or smartphones adaptors which are easily available.

The micro USB posed additional problems to the mechanical design; the mechanical engineers have to overcome the waterproof issue that comes with micro USB port. Through elaborated design in the plastic housing and USB Port cover, we are able to achieve a dust and water resistant rating of IPX6. 

Water proofing
The mechanical engineers thoughtfully designed the softer thermoplastic polyurethane around the gaps to prevent moisture from slipping through them. This design eliminated the need for additional sealant gasket as the same softer thermoplastic polyurethane used in the band acts as the sealing gasket as well.

This makes Star.21 capable of handling everyday elements; users would not need to take additional care of the fitness band, making it truly inconspicuous.

Battery
Battery life was a major concern to the development team, as we do not want any lapse in tracking to affect the cultivation of habits. The small size of the fitness band forbids larger battery.
The electronics engineers went to great lengths to optimize the power consumption in every component to achieve an ultra low power optimization.

We tested numerous makes of lithium polymer battery over a month to find one to meet our stringent requirements.