Absolutely no need to touch your phone, Flic creates a shortcut to your favorite actions. With one Flic, you can create a shortcut to call a cab, text your loved ones of your location if you’re in distress, or just turn the lights on. Flic can do so much more too...

Flic is a simple and stylish wireless button that lets you create a shortcut to your favorite actions so that you don’t have to touch your phone.

A Day Made of Flic With Flic in your car you can keep your focus on the road, where it should be. With just a click Flic could launch navigation to your next appointment, text your spouse and say that you’re on your way home or detect the song you’re listening to on the radio. Always looking for your phone when you’re on your way out? With Flic you can make your phone sound the alarm, making it easier to find.





Having a smart home set up should be, well, smart! Instead we have to dig through our phones to turn on a light? With Flic you can easily control all your smart home units the way it should be, with a smart, simple and easily accessible button located where you need it. As you can see in the picture above you can also create scenarios for when you’re going out or when you’re having a movie night to control multiple units at once.



Having a smart home set up should be, well, smart! Instead we have to dig through our phones to turn on a light? With Flic you can easily control all your smart home units the way it should be, with a smart, simple and easily accessible button located where you need it. As you can see in the picture above you can also create scenarios for when you’re going out or when you’re having a movie night to control multiple units at once.

But not everyone has a smartphone. For some it can actually be terrifying. Flic brings the amazing possibilities of the smartphone and makes it accessible to everyone.



Put your phone on the shelf and let everyone be in the picture. Let Flic be your photographer and take a picture for you without having to be near your phone. Flic integrates with your phone's camera shutter function so you can have everyone in your picture. With just a click, Flic can start sharing your phones GPS location with your family and friends so they can follow you on your way home. In the event of a distressed situation, you can easily sound the alarm and send a distress message.





A Closer Look at Flic

Flic can do so much more... Yeah, its just a wireless button, but it can change the way you live every day. The phone opens up a world of possibilities, but Flic brings them to life.



We are developing some of the amazing actions you can see above, some of which we have already developed. The amazing opportunities that Flic brings should not be restricted to our imagination. Exclusive Holiday Perk Control your Phillips Hue lights, Nest thermostat, August Smartlock, and much more with a Flic.



Control your Phillips Hue lights, Nest thermostat, August Smartlock, and much more with a Flic. The Harmony Hub combines Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and IR to control your home automation and entertainment devices such as lights, locks, thermostats, blinds, movies, TV, and more. Some example integrations Flic can control lots of different services on your phone but can also be used to contol your devices and web apps. These are a few examples.







Flic Developer Kit This is why we are launching the Flic Developer Kit so Flic can be integrated into any application. We already have some amazing apps that are integrating with Flic and we will continuously list them below during the campaign. Do you want to integrate Flic into your app? Contact us at info@shortcutlabs.com.









How to start flicing



Lets say I want Flic to skip to the next song when I Double Click:





Press the Flic in the center screen and it will show you the three ways to use Flic: Click, Double Click and Hold. Next, we choose Double Click, and select Music. The Music settings will be shown and we choose “Skip to next song”, that’s it! Now Flic will skip to the next song each time you Double Click. No need to have the phone around!

Designed for everyone

Technical Details Flic uses Bluetooth Low Energy to communicate with your device and is compatible with iPhone 4s & later, iPad 3rd generation & later and select Android devices with 4.3 and later with Bluetooth 4.0. We've worked really hard to make Flic as battery efficient as possible while still keeping it diverse for all sorts of applications. This is why we have prepared Flic to work in three different modes. In most use-cases Flic will mostly be turned off until it's pressed. In this mode the battery will last up to 60 000 clicks which is more than enough for anyone. There is more to Flic than you might think. To give you a better feeling here is an exploded view of the different parts.



Flic will come with a double-sided adhesive that allows you to stick it to any surface. You can easily peel it off and restick it again.

The Journey Behind Flic. We've gone through an immense journey to get to the design that we are offering today. Below you can see the different prototype steps we have gone through to finally bring you Flic. In March we flew off to join the Hardware Incubator Highway 1 in San Francisco. While we were there, we decided to do a respin on the product design before bringing it to the market. We went through another design cycle as you can see below. After finding the right design, we flew off to China to have a look at some factories while finding suppliers to start prototyping. We assembled the prototypes and started the DFM work to prepare the product for manufacturing. A lot of changes were made to the initial prototype design such as the LED which had too low intensity as you can see below.



And now, we are ready to bring the Flic to you...The Journey is yet to be over.





Perks

Why we need your help We can all agree that smartphones are a huge part of the 21st century. Everything is getting integrated around the smartphone and most recently even our homes and cars. With Flic we want to make all this fantastic technology which our smartphones enable accessible to everyone. The next step after Flic is even more exciting but first we need your help to bring Flic to the market.

Timeline

Where the Funds Will go The hardware is close to done with most of the DFM work already made. With a successful campaign we will start ordering the tools needed. We have come this far and now we need your support to take the next step. We will be working closely with the manufacturers to make sure that everything runs as smoothly as possible and you getting your Flics in time.

Meet the Team





Risks There's always risks that can delay the process before Flic gets into your hands. We thought it might be good to share some of them so you know what we are dealing with. Component supply: Flic, or any product for that matter, contains a significant amount of components. These components come from different suppliers which have different lead times for their components. If ONE of these suppliers has a short supply or a long leadtime this will delay the entire production, if a substitute is not found for that component. Enhancements in production: When in production there are a couple of parameters that can be improved during the process such as the color, click feeling, translucence, IP class etc. Making such enhancements during the process will be in order to improve your experience with Flic. We will do everything we can to ensure that Flic ships with superior quality. Shipping and customs: When we start shipping there's always a risk of the product getting stuck in customs, either when we are receiving the products from the factory or shipping them to you. We have prepared as well as we can and hopefully there won't be any delays.





