14 DAY TRIAL // What if you had the chance to know how much time you have left of your entire life? Would you panic or would you choose to use it wisely and make every second count? Well, thanks to a Kickstarter project turned real, a watch tells you how many hours, minutes and seconds you have left on this Earth.
It is both cool and creepy, looking at the time and actually seeing how much time you have to accomplish your goals. In order to inspire people and make them be aware of the fact that death is nonnegotiable, the Tikker team created the death watch that counts down one's life.
Tikker is a wristwatch that shows one's lifetime from years to seconds and was built to motivate the ones that use it to make the most out of the rest of their lives. “Wearing a Tikker is a statement to the world that your biggest priority in life, is living,” according to the product's official page.
According to its creators, the watch calculates approximately when a person is likely to die and transform the data into time shown on the display. The user must fill in a questionnaire about their health state, habits, risk factors and age and according to that data, the time of death will be calculated.
Fredrik Colting, the 37-year-old Swedish man behind the original idea, encourages people to make their bucket list and start acting upon it. The team behind the project already created their own bucket list once their official Tikker countdown started.
Their list, published on the official website includes singing every day, quitting their job and watching every movie they always intended to watch and didn't have time, perpetually lay on a beach, throw an insane party or “tell the girl at the coffee place that I love her.”
The watch is believed to be a way of making people be more appreciative about life and live every day to the fullest, “YOLO” as some might say. It is a fact that most people fear death, and a constant reminder of that may not seem the best daily thought, even if it is meant to help them.
Also, the accuracy of the Tikker is not quite precise, firstly because the questionnaire can easily be batched, and secondly, because one may never know in what circumstances he / she may die, some people do not die because of natural causes and the watch cannot actually predict that.
Besides these particular issues, the idea behind the project is original and well intended, and for a handful of people, it can actually be a great reminder and a trigger for change. They managed to turn a depressive idea into a reason to live life to its fullest and this is highly appreciated.