Posted on 08/29/2022 3:37:41 PM PDT by grundle
By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)
August 29, 2022
I’ve never actually owned a “smart” phone. And I guess this is one reason why.
There is now an app that tells your “smart” phone when your jar of peanut better is empty.
This article from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is from four years ago, but I just found about it now. It says:
Even though no one can see you eating peanut butter off a spoon in the middle of the night, the jar’s label might soon be “watching.”
Adrich, a Pittsburgh company that designs smart labels that could alert customers when they’re running low on their favorite products, just signed its first major deal to slap their innovation on products bound for consumers’ homes.
The labels will be able to track when and how much of a product people use. Sensors embedded in the labels can detect movement and also determine how much of a product remains, Aji said. Adrich then uses a proprietary algorithm to make sense of the data.
For example, during tests in which labels were on jars of peanut butter, Adrich found that people snacked on peanut butter at all hours of the day.
Companies can send coupons or other promotions when they sense a customer is about to run out of a product. Customers can learn when they should restock.
The labels — “almost like a mini-computer,” Aji said — contain a battery and sensors but are nearly as thin as a regular label. The label connects to a user’s smartphone through Bluetooth.
I’m 51 years old. I’ve been eating peanut butter ever since I was a child. And I’ve never, ever had trouble figuring out if the jar was empty.
And even when the jar is empty, well, I plan in advance, so I always have an extra jar (or a few, actually) because I always stock up on all of the non-perishable foods that I eat on a regular basis. That’s why homes have kitchen cabinets, shelves, and pantry closets. I have actually never, ever run out of peanut butter, soap, or toothpaste, because I always know that I’m always going to be using those things, so I always keep extra in my home.
Is there anyone who is so dumb that they need an app to tell them when their jar of peanut butter is empty?
How did we live without this?
It’s only going to get worse... and yes, people are that damned stupid.
About what I expect of the “licks and looks” iFag phone users.
Apps are a beautiful, Orwellian way to keep tabs on users.
With liberals, you never know.
No, I am not customer for this technology. But I understand why some might find it handy.
After your teen has a few friends over you may find that your stash of peanut butter and crackers has been reduced to three empty jars.
Dumb enough to vote libtard and dumb enough to need this app
It must be too hard to get another jar out of the pantry.
I ran out of deodorant this morning, so I just reached toward my shelf and got a new one. It’s not that hard to plan ahead.
What happens when your three peanut butter jars start talking to each other and report you to the Ministry of Plenty for hoarding? And don't even think about what your toilet paper rolls are saying behind your back.
There’s an app that will tell you how dumb people can be.
Oh cool! Hope this works for jars of Smuckers Goober also
It's simply a convenience. How many of us have gone to the supermarket only to come home and realize we forgot to get something that we are running out of?
What this app will do it put peanut butter on your shopping list so that when you go to the supermarket, you don't forget it.
My car will email me when it needs an oil change and my Subaru app will offer to schedule an appointment. Again, a convenience.
This could be useful with a 12-pack of beer. When you get down to three bottles, you get an alert to buy another 12-pack. Again, very useful.
So extraordinarily dumb that it is totally incomprehensible
to anyone of above-average intelligence.
As George Carlin said -
Look at the person of average intelligence and realize -
half of the people are dumber that that.
Means that the product container is no longer recyclable and is considered hazardous waste once emptied.
Someone really thought this out.
The youtuber Steve1989 eats old military rations. He has said the only item that is never bad is peanut butter. The stuff can last 100 years
But can the app stick its finger in the jar and get the last little bit of peanut butter out ?
“”Is there anyone who is so dumb that they need an app to tell them when their jar of peanut butter is empty?””
Yes, they’re called democrats!! The same people who can’t go for a walk without a phone - or go to the mailbox - or walk their dog or probably the bathroom tho’ I don’t witness that.
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