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If Your Saltshaker Doesn’t Have Bluetooth, Why Do You Even Use Salt?
- Neliquat 9y agoBut does it interface with my smart toilet to adjust my electrolyte balance? Worth remembering the 1st smart device was arguably a coffeepot.
- protomyth 9y agoGiven how many coffeepots are in American workplaces and how dangerous a dumb coffeepot can be, I would imagine there was a lot of economic pressure to make coffeepots smarter and safer.
- pjc50 9y agoI think parent comment was referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot (1991)
- netsharc 9y agoDoes it have a subscription that delivers specially packaged salt with QR-code on the packaging to know if the salt has gone bad? Salt Rights Management, hah. I suppose Nestlé and maybe Flint Water Company would like this model for water. "Due to scarcity, we have surge pricing for clean water at the moment. Please agree to get water dispensed."
- Finnucane 9y agoIt's clearly not smart enough. It still requires manual shaking, and some level of thought process for the user to decide how much salt to put on the food. That should be automated. As an aside, it should post to the cook's Facebook wall that the prepared food was insufficiently salted, because who can pass up a chance for public internet shaming?
- Avshalom 9y agoIt should definitely use facial recognition to ensure no one uses more than their daily allowance of sodium.
- logfromblammo 9y agoIn the show Rick and Morty, Rick builds a robot to pass the butter. Not one to do anything halfway [until he gets bored], Rick uses an advanced AI to control the robot. When the AI inquires, "What is my purpose?" the answer is "You pass the butter." That little robot is all of us. But at least a life dedicated to passing the butter is better than one devoted to just holding the salt.
- metaphorm 9y agorobot's response "OH...MY...GOD..." rick's response "Yeah, I know. Welcome to the club buddy."
- gumby 9y agoShh. My new crowdsourced project is a saltshaker that uses RN/NN to determine the amount of salt required. It uses IoT cameras to determine your physiological and euphoric response to salting various forms of food, uploading the data the the cloud for analysis. But it's not simply the amount of salt. It's the grain size that should be appropriate to your meal, the music, your current emotional state and the importance of the occasion. So your shaker subscribes to a salt subscription in which we send you regular packets of salt, selected by our sodium sommelier, which are ground to perfection on a just-in-time bases before delivery to your plate. Through a special deal with Task Rabbit, someone can come to your house to perform the refill.
- jimmies 9y agoWe will deliver salt refills to your door every two weeks with an easy 9.99/mo subscription. Each bag is QR-coded so you know exactly where the salt comes from. We also only sources from local, organic, gluten-free farms. In the rare case of a salt recall, we can do that do. Therefore, the salt shaker won't work without an internet connection.
- blacksmith_tb 9y agoJust wait until your users hack the bags, squeezing the salt out with the bare hands, the VCs won't like that.
- gumby 9y agoI'm gonna hit this site with a DMCA complaint, claiming infringement by you!
- Finnucane 9y ago>someone can come to your house to perform the refill. What, no autonomous drones?
- gumby 9y agoI just realized my plan does not use the blockchain. I'm fucked.
- davidgerard 9y agoThis product is clearly completely and grossly inadequate due to its lack of Blockchain.
- jpl56 9y agoHow do I check my salt consumption if I take my saltshaker out for picnic? It certainly needs a SIM card slot with a specific data plan (no more than $5,99/mo will be OK) with free download of the songs excerpts that will be played while shaking.