Pictured above: Dishwasher, coffeemaker, and Sandwich maker!
Posted on 05/01/2017 11:39:15 AM PDT by C19fan
I attended the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in 2011. It's the world's largest trade show, with hundreds of new products introduced each year. What I saw were booths stuffed with future landfill: docks, dashboard mounts, adapters, robotic vacuum cleaners, 3D TVs. One afternoon, I attended a panel discussion about the rapidly approaching "connected home," referred to nowadays as the Internet of Things. The panelists promised that household devices of all kinds would soon be connected to one another and to the internet, thereby transforming the average American home into a futuristic fortress of hyperefficiency.
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Couldn’t agree with you more.
What the %$#& do I need a programmable coffee maker for.
I have the cheapest 5-cup Mr. Coffee. I figure that if I can’t roll out of bed, put in the water and filter and measure two scoops of coffee, I don’t DESERVE my morning cup.
Yeah great, can’t open a can of beans at 3am because the internet is down and it can’t scan the label for marketing purposes.
I don’t need the damned refrigerator to have an opinion on what i eat!
And I don’t need the Dish Washer bitching about me not pre cleaning my dishes either!
Like the refrigerator that’s linked to the Internet.
Just... why?
Are you saying I’m too stoopid to look in my refrigerator and figure out where to buy eggs?
And now I’m off to go get my 3D TV....
“I am very utilitarian about appliances and like. Do the job you were built nothing more nothing less. Superfluous features just mean more things that can break.”
Precisely what I was going to post. The more gadgets the more that can and will go wrong.
We got an LG smart tv and it asks me to agree to T&C’s before it will turn on the microphone. I decline. I also cover the camera. Physically.
Pictured above: Dishwasher, coffeemaker, and Sandwich maker!
“I am very utilitarian about appliances and like. Do the job you were built nothing more nothing less.”
I take it you do not have a smart phone?
I got a garage door with wifi because my wife and I would always forget if we checked the door closed.
It also has a motion detector to turn the light on when we go into the garage.
aside from spying on me, i remain skeptical that i want a machine to call a repairman for me and incur charges for me because of the new form of planned obsolescence.
Knowing the government is spying on me through my appliances kinda make me feel important.
I don’t want “Hot Tea. Erhl Grey”
you better DUCK before the pot gets throwin at you.
I believe my mother often referred to herself as, “Chief cook, maid, and bottle washer.”
This is gonna trigger so many pierced multicolored haired SJWs.....
[ you better DUCK before the pot gets throwin at you. ]
What do you mean thrown at me, I would be throwing it at myself :)
Anyone have any good suggestions about a good, powerful, but simple dishwasher?
Mine is getting a bit old...
Can’t quite tell if you’re looking for a new wife or if you seriously need data.
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