Age of Dreams

In the office, Xiao Qi held a black bracelet made of plastic in his hand, watching and contemplating slowly.

This bracelet is about the size of a watchband, but slightly thicker. The curved LCD screen in the middle, about the size of an adult's thumb, is shining.

If you change the look of people at the end of 2013, you can tell at a glance, this is not the smart wearable bracelet that Samsung just exposed-isn't it?

It's just that Xiao Qi in this life created it more than three years in advance, and improved it to form a brand new smart bracelet.

The people in the laboratory promised in June that they should be able to create the fairy bracelet at the end of July, but it was only halfway through November that they barely finished engineering samples.

The reason is naturally that they are stuck on several important technical problems.

The first is the curved LCD screen required by the smart bracelet.

They didn’t realize it at first, and Xiao Qi didn’t deliberately remind them that they used a transparent curved plastic layer on the surface and an LCD screen on the inside, but it was not the same thing. Moreover, it is very troublesome to operate, and there is no sense of intelligence at all.

So they tried to change the material, and after looking around, they found that in Xiao Qi’s design, this screen and the touch screen are actually integrated, so they just remembered that the laboratory is about olem folding screens and hyperboloids. Screen research has already been carried out on a large scale.

Therefore, they prepared to use curved LCD screens, folding screens and curved screens. The laboratory staff were willing to let the fairy smart bracelets be their test products, and they actively cooperated. After two months, finally Made an LCD screen that barely passed the test.

The LCD screen is ready, the touch screen is originally made of soft paste material, naturally it is easy to fit together.

The second difficulty lies in the system design of the smart bracelet. And the adjustment of page look and feel, resolution, and sensitivity.

It actually seems very simple, but when they experimented with an ordinary 2-inch LCD screen, they found that making a fuss on such a small screen not only tested the size of the finger. More test the development settings of the system.

In order to satisfy users in Asia, Europe and the United States, they have spent a lot of effort and found a lot of departments to cooperate. Finally, they can have a great deal of touch sensitivity, page refreshing, and intelligent sensing. progress.

The third question. It is the matching problem between these functions and the curved LCD screen.

Flat LCD screens and curved LCD screens are quite different in touch, strength and accuracy.

If it is used by ordinary people on smart bracelets, a little bit of discomfort will affect their experience. This is a very fatal shortcoming for a product.

So it took another month to modulate and test this curved LCD screen alone.

Finally, I tried hundreds of products and showed them to people in the company for trial, feedback, improvement... and so on. A set of procedures until today. They dared to show it to Xiao Qi.

As for the previously promised time limit, this group of guys never dared to mention it again.

Samsung’s can’t be regarded as a top-notch smart wearable device, but in Xiao Qi’s view, because of this curved LCD screen, it will not be outdated within five years, just like Apple’s mobile phone has always been a touch screen , But it has been prosperous for ten or eight years.

Legend has it that Samsung will launch a hyperbolic or single-curved mobile phone in 2014. As the size becomes larger, it is more difficult to manufacture, but correspondingly. The sensation caused will get bigger and bigger.

Looking at the curved LCD screen in his hand, Xiao Qi can imagine that after the emergence of a curved LCD phone, Samsung should have the ability to compete head-on with Apple.

But this life is different. Not only is the smart wearable device first invented by the Fairy Company, it will also be invented by the Fairy Company along with the curved LCD mobile phone. Even if Samsung has such a plan, it will only fall behind the Fairy Company.

Putting aside his thoughts, Xiao Qi pressed the power button on the side. The boot pattern is still the familiar cartoon fairy dragon.

Similar to other products of Fairy Company, this smart bracelet except for a power button, the rest is to select and confirm functions by touch, and even the volume buttons are controlled on the LCD panel.

The function of the fairy bracelet is not too much, and now some are detecting the number of running steps, calories burned, heart rate detection, weather and time display, alarm clock and schedule reminder.

Compared with the original version, there are fewer phone calls and text messages. This is what Xiao Qi deliberately did. Otherwise, he would do it so perfectly when he first came up. How to upgrade in the future?

Even so, this fairy bracelet made by Xiao Qi is exquisite enough.

Xiao Qi tried out various function options. With the support of the weakened version of the fairy system, the function selection and demonstration are smooth and very convenient, and the erected pages are more adaptable.

What's a little uncomfortable is that the 2-inch curved LCD screen is too small. Compared with the 5-inch large screen of the current smart phone, it is not so easy to press.

"According to our test, this fairy bracelet is very easy to use. During the one-week trial period, everyone felt that it could facilitate their lives and was unique in helping to exercise." Sun Manxue said with a smile. "There are even many girls who say that after having it, you can basically drop your phone and go for a good run and exercise for a while!"

"Where are the shortcomings?" Xiao Qi asked.

"Because it is an LCD panel, it is inevitable that it cannot be exposed to water. If it can be made into a waterproof level, it would be even better." Sun Manxue said.

"It's not difficult to get the waterproof level, but let's do this first, and wait until the second generation upgrade." Xiao Qi muttered, "You should also pay attention to the lab side, regarding the waterproof research and development of the next generation of dreampad and dreamstars. , It will be released in 2012 at the latest."

"I know that the experts hired from Germany are already doing research and development, and we will fully support them in terms of resources."

Nodded, Xiao Qi put down the fairy bracelet and said, "What's the cost?"

"The laboratory produced more than 900 pieces. If it is mass production, it should be able to control around 600." Dai Xian said, "The main reason is that the configuration is relatively high, the ram has reached 512m, the memory has reached 2g, and the yield is low. It’s 95% curved 2-inch LCD screen, so the cost cannot be controlled for the time being. At this price, the touch screen of Chenhong Optoelectronics on Baodao is better, but Shenghua Technology’s quotation is actually at a loss, and it is now large. Mass production is still difficult. It is said that the yield of the latest batch is only 88%."

"The laboratory gave them the design drawings and requirements two months ago, and they have been experimenting, but the effect is not very good." Sun Manxue added, "but their spirit of learning and scientific research is very commendable. For a while, according to the engineers we sent, several of them, the deputy general managers in charge of technology, lived in the factory in turn, meeting to solve problems at any time."

"They see the future of the new high-end curved LCD screen. They know that if this is done, there will be LCD orders for curved mobile phones in the future. Are they not willing to work hard?" Xiao Qi said with a smile. The reason for the effort.

In this regard, Xiao Qi also agrees very much.

Benefits can make people progress, and greed can also make technological innovations.

If you want people to put in hard work for no reason, you may do it once or twice. If this continues, the idiot will not persist.

The cost of the fairy bracelet is much more expensive than the millet bracelet that is less than 100 yuan in the previous legend, mainly because of the different functions and grades.

The Mi Band is more of just a sensor. It needs the help of the Mi mobile phone screen to display various functional patterns, such as the number of running steps, calories burned, and so on. Holding the band without a screen alone is completely invisible. To something.

"So, when is Shenghua Technology going to supply us?" Xiao Qi asked.

"They promise to give 1 million screens by the end of the year." Dai Xian replied, "Starting next year, it can increase to 500,000 yuan per month."

Xiao Qi nodded, even if this amount was enough.

The practicality of the smart bracelet is not great, but the portability and trendy feel are very attractive.

Now the cost is more than 600, so plus marketing costs and profits, etc., you have to sell at least 1,000 to make a profit, and I always don’t like low profits~www.wuxiaspot.com~ so I have to sell at least 1,288 in China. It has to be sold for 188 US dollars abroad.

The average monthly sales of 500,000 yuan is quite a lot.

It is really very popular, so it is possible to expand production at that time and give some orders to other LCD panel manufacturers.

In the product sequence of the fairy company, not necessarily all products have to be like mobile phones and tablets, making a big profit. Many products can also build an intelligent ecology around the fairy system, allowing the fairy system to be integrated into people's intelligent life. in.

As long as you master these users, you are the greatest asset, and it is much more cost-effective than selling a single product.

When every smart product they use is a product of the Fairy Company, can they continue to choose to own the Fairy Company's products in their future lives?

This is the user stickiness that business people are pursuing!

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