Idiotic Internet of Things Devices Nobody Asked For. Humans contain multitudes. We have a demonstrated ability to work hard, sweat and toil for our daily bread, and, as a society, achieve magnificent feats of science and technology. We’ve literally reached the stars! However, we can also be incredibly lazy pieces of shit. We fight with our roommates over whose turn it is to get off the couch and find the remote, rage at Netflix for making us press a button to keep watching, and order Seamless instead of going outside. That’s where the Internet of Things comes in—ready to rescue us from the horrible task of using our atrophying muscles to close the blinds—by connecting everything to the information superhighway. Unfortunately, a lot of it is total garbage. When it comes to Silicon Valley, there’s nothing like an expensive, overwrought solution to a problem that barely exists. Take this recently announced toilet paper tracker, for instance. Are you always getting caught out on the shitter with no toilet paper? Never fear: A You. Tuber (oh, goodie) has invented a smart toilet paper dispenser that can sense when you’re running low and will notify you via an app. Might we suggest a couple of non- electronic hacks, like.. Maybe just one or two spare rolls? Carry some tissues in your pocket? Christ, there are plenty of options that aren’t connecting your toilet paper dispenser to the internet. While the problems with internet- connected devices are well known—why, hello there, security problems—today, in honor of the toilet paper tracker, we want to celebrate the most utterly banal devices ever to have a chip slapped on them. They solve the problems you didn’t even know you had—for a price, of course. Us Earthlings are quite lucky to be living at around standard temperature and pressure. Life has evolved to comfortably handle the shapes in which most molecules have. The newsletter ministry of Texe Marrs and Power of Prophecy. Beginning of dialog content Close Are You Still There? Due to inactivity, you will be signed out of Walgreens.com soon. Please choose to continue your session or sign. California Triple Crown Doubles Calendar; Date: Ride Name: Polar Elevation Gain* Garmin Elevation Gain: Highlights: 02/18/17: Camino Real Double: 8,800 : Ride the. Humans contain multitudes. We have a demonstrated ability to work hard, sweat and toil for our daily bread, and, as a society, achieve magnificent feats of science. Get all of Hollywood.com's best Movies lists, news, and more. ![]() Trakz. There are plenty of devices that will track things that definitely don’t need to be tracked. Among those: a fitbit for your fat lil’ doggo that will tell you how much your pet is eating, in case you suspect he’s sneaking off to Shake Shack for a cheeky burger. Hidrate. Spark. A smart water bottle that “glows to make sure that you never forget to drink your water again.” Apparently the concept of “drinking water when you’re thirsty” is unfashionable now. Also, there are already apps that will remind you to drink water, which is lazy enough. The article you have been looking for has expired and is not longer available on our system. This is due to newswire licensing terms. Two people are dead after a light plane crashed near Kaka Point, south of Balclutha. Do you really need your water bottle to glow, too? What about a little robotic arm to tap you on your thick head? Here’s what I bet mine sounds like: krrrt krrtt ssspptth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Egg Minder. An egg tray for your fridge to tell you how many eggs you have left and even how fresh the eggs are, massively superseding the old technology of “looking at the date on the box” or even putting them in water. I hate this and will not comment further. Maybe, I don’t know, ask your girlfriend? We- Vibe. There are several brands of internet- connected vibrators and dildos, like the We. Vibe, which also contain pretty serious security flaws. Anyway, if you really want your hot and slimy sexual cavities filled with huge, powerful Wi. Fi signals, you can do that. Garageio. You know those little tasks you just cannot be arsed to do, like opening your garage door? There’s a stupid device for that. Garageio lets you open your garage door with your smartphone, rather than with the classic remote that seems to have been working fine my entire life. I guess you could open it from work and scare the shit out of your husband, or something. Amazon Dash. Amazon Dash buttons aren’t all bad—it makes sense to order big, bulky, heavy- use items like kitty litter with the press of a button, especially because the buttons are basically free—but some of them are just bizarre. Who is buying enough pistachios to need a Dash button for that? Is the burden of your pistachio habit so great that you need a special button on the door of your Pistachio Cove to order a new shipment? If I ever went to someone’s house and they had a pistachios Dash button, I would press that thing 5. Nespresso’s Prodigo. A Bluetooth- connected coffee machine that can tell you when you’re out of their dumb little coffee pods, which you shouldn’t use anyway because they’re killing the planet. It can also start brewing the coffee from afar, but only if your chosen pod is already loaded, which is a real shame if you, like me, have gotta have that java. Shuttereaze. This smart plantation (what the fuck?) shutter relieves you of the horrific burden of getting up to close your shutters after a long day of blogging. As their Kickstarter says, “This daily routine can become even more tedious with hard- to- reach shutters. Bluesmart luggage. The Bluesmart “connected carry on” luggage promised the ability to weigh itself, charge your phone, and lock itself. That last feature unfortunately was not all groovy with the TSA, who stopped The Next Web writer Natt Garun on her way to CES last year and “sternly” questioned her on the bag’s exposed wiring and battery pack. Griffin Toaster. A $1. Bluetooth toaster by Griffin that can send you a notification when your toast is done to your desired level of crispness. Which is fine, except toast takes like three minutes. My toaster was $8 and works almost all the time. Griffin Mirror. But wait! There’s more annoying shit from Griffin, which also makes a connected mirror. The mirror can display notifications from your phone, the weather, and, of course, updates from your Griffin toaster, if you touch the mirror’s surface. Love to get my smudgy fingerprints all over my mirror just so I don’t have to look out the window. Cloud. Pets. There are many connected toys for kids on the market, including stuffed animals and sick robots. To a childless millennial like me, the news that toys are now connected to the internet is utterly baffling. What is wrong with a simple old teddy bear, I shout at the children on my lawn? Why does Old Ted need to talk to the cloud? If nothing else, the news that millions of recordings of children and their parents leaked from Cloud. Pets’ database should give you pause. Kids will play with literal dirt and rocks, you fools. Flip- flops. We couldn’t forget to mention an Io. T device that is connected in perhaps the least useful way possible. This pair of flip- flops with a chip and accompanying app doesn’t provide anything conceivably useful like fitness tracking data, but instead sends wearers information about discounts. Sign me up! What I’ve learned from this is: man, capitalism creates some truly stupid, useless shit. Also, parody is dead, and we’re about six months from a real- life Smart. Comment Of The Day: Deja Vu Edition. Yeah, sure, we already milked this joke for COTD this week, but if it’s true and it’s funny, and the other comments sucked, who am I to protest? We chatted early this morning about how much money little- ol’ Ferrari was raking in, so it’s just too bad it can’t escape the curling flames lapping at it from the comments section: Goooooood one Andros.
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