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I am not worried about bathroom noise privacy, but if I was I have old kitchen radio there that plays music/news with one dial for the volume (doubling as an off switch) and changes music/news with a dial. I need to swap batteries once every few years.

Now every digital radio I ever had is worse in terms of the simplicity of the interface. A radio like this one simply asks two questions: (1) How loud? (2) Should it be something else?

And this is your direct competitor. Your devices interface looks more complicated than that so getting people to grok it is motion activated is probably the key piece of information you need to deliver. The weather and time is a nice touch, but may be a thing most people don't need/want while driving the price up.

If we go to the question style of object-human interaction let me impersonate your device from the perspective of a guest:

  O: Oh hi, it looks like you plan to shit, here is some music you didn't ask for [plays music] 
  
  H: Thsts weird I want to switch you off  
  
  O: Let's play a game where you need to find which of my 12 button-look-alikes switch me off, oh and by the way did I tell you I am battery powered?  
  
(This is ofc humourous exaggeration, but there is some truth in there)


It has a large button on top of the unit with lit up text that says ”Stop Music” which pauses music. The other buttons are Volume Up, Volume Down and Next Song.




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