[cullenking]

I am not a hardware guy, but the few pieces of hardware I've seen ordered took a week to get a run of 100 test units, they spent two weeks working some bugs out, then put in an order of 1000 which came a week after placing the order.

This was done out of a shop in the US, not sure what it is like doing production runs overseas, but I can't imagine it's much slower.

This of course ignores the time spent designing/redesigning units, however, ordering batches of something from a manufacturer doesn't take long.

[tesseract]

Unless you are dealing with supply chain issues on new(ish) or rare components, which can take many months to resolve. The WakeMate is simple enough that I wouldn't expect this to be an issue, but who knows?

[cullenking]

Their blog talks about how you have to have a special auth-chip to pair with an iPhone, that could be an issue...Though I think Apple would make sure those were in large supply.

[ujeezy]

I saw an FCC stamp – getting FCC approval would have taken at least a month. And I have no idea whether something like this would require FDA approval, but I'm sure they had to at least research that.

[joe_bleau]

Sure looks like a pre-approved BT module to me, such as the ones SparkFun sells (http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_i...). Buy it and solder it down: done.

[oscardelben]

But these should have been done before selling.