A short look, then a few questions

Festival Watch

Twelve seconds: the face, your group, one friend, a shared pin.

01A festival crowd. Somewhere in it are your friends.

02A small device on each wrist. It shows a direction and a distance to each friend. The devices talk straight to each other, so there is no phone in the loop and nothing to lose signal. Nothing to agree in advance, and nobody has to leave where they are.

03Four people at four stages, nobody waiting at a meeting point. Each has set a status from the wrist, beer, toilet, dancing, asleep, and the whole group sees it.

Try it

Drag a friend. The screen is drawn at the device's real resolution.

N300 m rangeYouBeerBeerToiletDance

100 m

Tap a friend, or yourself, to select. Drag a friend, or the pin, to move them. Arrow keys move the selected one.

Set Marie's status

Whoever sets it, the whole group sees it.

The object

Drag to turn it. The proportions are real: 40 mm body, 23 mm screen, one dial, standard strap lugs.

Continue to the questions

The questions take about four minutes. Anonymous unless you leave an email at the end.