Thync Set up

Set up is pretty easy over all - it's a Bluetooth device, so you download the app (which for some bizarre reason isn't tagged for running on a tablet, so it's phone or nothing), sync the device, and start watching long rambling videos featuring a chirpy blonde chick who is the voice of 'calm'.  There's Mr. Energy who shows up later and sounds like a wired frat boy from Central Casting - but he never appears so I'm assuming he was mangled horribly in the creation of the device.  

Chirpy starts off on leading you through calm, so if you don't want to be calm you're pretty much out of luck.  First step is putting the device on your head right - where something else sort of weird crops up.  The designers had a great idea to put a picture in picture app in - but the implementation is weird.  The front camera on your phone reverses things in real time just because that's the ways optics work.  Things are always backwards and upside down - it's easy to swap the upside down but the mirror image swap is expensive and happens after the 'save' of any selfies.

You then get to watch Chirpy put the device on her head in corrected video - and then you are supposed to ape her by watching your reversed image and doing everything she does but with your other hand on the other side of your head.  Yeah, this doesn't help - and I did a terrible job first time.  Just look.

I don't know if the Thync people live in some mirror reality - but this is a pretty wretched experience overall and I could see a lot of people tossing this thing down by this point.  This is a cool idea - but Chirpy needs to be reversed.  Just like the iPhone thing and the blow in card - this is pretty obvious to anyone doing a walk through and could be fixed in 5-10 minutes of work.  This is a transformation that Adobe does in 5-10 seconds plus the minute for Googling.

So far, pretty horrible.  But does it work?  Funny you should ask - sounds like another blog posting for later...