I came across a wooden word watch on kickstarter. I like the concept and the approach this chap took (see also Imgur post on building this watch).
I have little more to add except that it felt like the kind of thing I'd love to see on SN, so here you go. I am not involved with this in any way and am (currently) not even backing this. But I just thought it was a cool story about engineering, and I figured it'd be appreciated. I am also kind of hoping some of the reactions will point out similarly cool small tech projects, so please do respond in the comments with your own SoyVertisements of cool, independent projects!
[Ed Note: We occasionally receive self-promoting story submissions. These are quickly noted as 'bin spam' and unceremoniously passed over for use on the site. (You can well imagine what would happen to the submissions queue were we to do otherwise!) This submission does not seem to fall into that category, but it does nudge up against it. The tipping point for my accepting this story is based on three factors. The submitter has been with the site since nearly its inception. (Submissions from ACs and newly-created-accounts just for submitting a self-promoting story will continue to be looked at very askance.) Another factor is the submitter receives no remuneration or benefit from the submission. Lastly, the item in question does look interesting to me and I think it would be of interest to the community. So, if you do [not] want to see more stories like this, on occasion, please indicate so in the comments. Also, any suggestions as to factors to use to assess these kinds of submissions for acceptance are also appreciated. --martyb]
(Score: 2, Informative) by pTamok on Thursday August 24 2017, @07:07AM (1 child)
I'm fine with a stream of tagged SoyVertisements, so long as they are tagged as such by the independent editor, and I can set an option to have them filtered out of the default display of the stream of postings.
Occasionally, I would even like to have 'one-click' access to a stream that presented only SoyVertisements, with one-click access back to the filtered stream. Sometimes it is fun to browse.
I am not fine with SoyVertisements appearing in the news feed with no way of keeping them away.
(Score: 1) by DavePolaschek on Thursday August 24 2017, @01:32PM
I like the idea of tagged SoyVertisements, especially if I can filter them out.
I would much rather use soylent during a wait for a clean build to ogle cool toys than going to LifeHacker or Gizmodo. Definitely not an everyday thing, but I'd look through them once in a while.