Imagine getting out of bed to find a freshly boiled kettle of water awaiting you, calibrated to perfect tea-brewing temperature. That’s what the iKettle 2.0 promises its users—which is great, except when you run into technical difficulties, as Mark Rittman did this morning:
A simple task achievable with analog tools, needlessly complicated by a digital equivalent—that’s the problem with the Internet of Things and “smart homes” (and it’s neatly encapsulated in the Twitter $TWTR account known as Internet of Shit, which shared the above tweets).
Achieving a smarter smart home is something that’s being relentlessly pursued by the world’s biggest tech companies. In the meantime, it might be time to stock up on firewood.
