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English man spends 11 hours trying to make cup of tea with Wi-Fi kettle
- noonespecial 10y agoCouldn't boil water? Sounds like vapor where?
- charlysl 10y agoThis is copied from the comment section: "Well the kettle is back online and responding to voice control, but now we're eating dinner in dark while lights download a firmware update" If nothing else that line made the article worthwhile.
- JustSomeNobody 10y agoThis is our future. Tech companies get products 80% there, ship, promise to do the other 20%, realize it's too hard, and so they leave their products to rot. Yay. /s
- flukus 10y agoAnd there are still people here that think the IoT will be brilliant.
- f_allwein 10y agoit is, but maybe not for the people using it.
- glandium 10y agoSomehow my brain occulted the "kettle" from the title, and I understood it as someone trying to heat a cup of tea by applying Wi-Fi microwaves for 11 hours.
- andyjohnson0 10y agoReminded me of the guy who spent an extraordinary amount of time trying to sign-in to his Google calendar on his Android-enabled fridge [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10732423 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10732423
- shiftoutbox 10y agoSo in other words a Englishman with too much money . Hrumm. Not amused .
- aangjie 10y agoIs his name Arthur Dent?
- textmode 10y agoThis title made me laugh. Reminds me of how The Onion used to be in its heyday.