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Flic is a wireless smart button that acts as a shortcut for your favorite apps & connected devices in smart homes.
The removable & reusable adhesive-backed wireless smart button can be stuck, ripped off & stuck again on surfaces anywhere in your home.
The way Flic works is simple enough – you press a button to execute a smartphone app function. Before doing that, you may choose on the kind of function you want & on the type of app.
It works as a button for all kinds of connected devices in smart homes. You can use it to turn the lights on & off, take a selfie using your smartphone camera, play music, activate your car’s navigation system, & find your phone. You can open doors controlled by smart locks, call a cab & do just about anything that your smartphone is equipped to do. You can press the button to hit the snooze function so that you get those extra few minutes of sleep without having to pull out your phone.
You can even send a distress signal that transmits a text message & the location of the button itself to your friends. If you buy multiple Flic buttons & set each one for one function, you have in effect created wireless buttons for the whole smart home & all your connected devices.
The combination of today’s smart devices, Flic buttons & the apps are far more versatile & easier to install, use & move than your traditional home appliances & devices that are fixed at one location & wired.
Flic is being launched through a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo. You have many options & prices still available as a pre-order for being multiple Flic buttons, although the cheapest one (US $19 for one Flic) is sold out. You can also get one Flic button free if you refer 2 of your friends.
The crowdfunding campaign has already raised more than five times the targeted goal of US $80,000 from more than 6,700 backers, & there’s still more than a week to go.
If you miss the crowdfunding campaign, you can still buy single buttons on their website at the retail price, & packs of 2 Flic buttons in other retail outlets.
Flic was developed by Stockholm, Sweden-based Shortcut Labs AB, founded in 2013 by Pranav Kosuri, Tomas Ohlson, Joacim Westlund & Amir Sharifat. Joacim Westlund is the company’s CEO. Amir Sharifat is their COO, & Pranav Kosuri is the CCO.
Here’s a video to help you understand how Flic works:
Image Credit: Indiegogo